Respectful Maternity Care Series

By: Christina Rawdon, National Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance Zimbabwe How great it would be if all women the world over were free from any form of disrespect and abuse (D&A) in their life time; not because I am a woman but because I am an…

By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer At a training center in Tanzania, Jhpiego’s Senior Maternal Health Advisor, Sheena Currie, addressed the group of brightly dressed nurse-midwives and doctors. As part of an overview about respectful…

By: Susan Moffson, MCSP Senior Program Officer The MHTF has relaunched our Respectful Maternity Care blog series in response to the inaugural International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, which sparked many questions: How can women’s health rights…

By: Kathleen McDonald, Senior Program Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative; Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Today, April 11, 2014 is the inaugural International…

Written by: Mamaye.org At MamaYe we believe that all mothers and their babies deserve respectful care. We also think that midwives, nurses, doctors and other healthworkers are heroes and heroines whose hard work should be celebrated. MamaYe…

By: Nora Miller, Research Assistant, Respectful Maternity Care program, Women and Health Initiative Unlike many of its neighboring countries, where progress has been made toward the MDG 5 target of increasing the proportion of births with a skilled birth…

By: Kelsey Holt, Senior Project Manager, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The third biennial International Conference on Family Planning kicked off this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with almost 3,000 attendees from…

By: Clare Watt, Harvard School of Public Health; Nora Miller, Research Assistant, Respectful Maternity Care program, Women and Health Initiative Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, continued today, charging ahead…

By: Tiffany Clark and Emily Forsyth Queen, USAID Traction Project Today marked the first day of Measuring advocacy for policy change: The case for respectful maternity care, a meeting convened in Cambridge, MA by the MHTF and the USAID Traction Project.…

The MHTF and USAID’s Translating Research into Action (TRAction) project are hosting a technical meeting focused on the challenge of measuring advocacy, with the specific aim of applying lessons from other global health advocacy efforts to respectful…