Maternal Health

Please take a moment to assist our colleagues at PATH who are conducting a survey on maternal health supplies in collaboration with Population Action International and the Maternal Health Supplies Working Group. Your input is critical: PATH is…

Access to health care, particularly maternal care, is not limited to the developing world, nor always the result of an inability to pay. Racism, poverty, and other forms of discrimination deny mothers access to care in the United States and Europe. In…

Last week’s meeting on the partograph use was organized by the Fistula Care Project since its use may reduce obstructed labor, one of the main causes of obstetric fistula. Not only do women who develop fistula suffer terrible physical outcomes, but…

By: Tim Thomas, Acting Director, MHTF The Advancing Maternal Health Dialogue series has been seminal to meeting the MHTF mandate of convening new allied partners around emerging and neglected issues in maternal health. The series had a powerful…

This week on the MHTF blog: The MHTF is looking for a Deputy Director of Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation Engaging Faith-Based Organizations at the Wilson Center Revitalizing the Partograph recaps: Day 1 and Day 2 An upcoming…

The partograph is often referred to as a simple tool (see here, here, here). The word simple often appears in a definition of partograph. However, if one thing became clear over the course of a two day meeting to discuss the partograph, it is that the…

The second day of the partograph meeting began with a discussion of how to overcome some of the challenges to partograph use identified on Day 1. The most significant challenges, as identified by polling attendees, included health systems failures and a…

On November 24, 2011 at 2pm EST, IDRC is hosting a conversation with Dr Richard Gakuba, director of eHealth in Rwanda’s Ministry of Health. Improving maternal and child health is a key aim of the Millennium Development Goals. Health systems in…

This week EngenderHealth’s Fistula Care Project is hosting a two-day technical meeting to review the current evidence base for partograph effectiveness, develop feasible strategies for overcoming barriers to partograph use, consider alternative…

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to a discussion of: Engaging Faith-Based Organizations in the Response to Maternal…