Maternal Health Task Force
The Maternal Health Task Force strives to create a strong, well-informed and collaborative community of individuals focused on ending preventable maternal mortality and morbidity worldwide.
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Blog
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World Water Day Provides Occasion to Consider Connections Between Maternal Health and WASH
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, March 22 is World Water Day, an annual UN event that seeks to draw attention to the persistent challenges related to securing clean water…
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The Lancet Global Health: First Call for Papers
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Earlier this week, The Lancet launched the first call for papers for its new journal, The Lancet Global Health. This is an incredibly exciting development,…
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Watch ‘A Message to the Lady of Laetoli’ Online
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla’s address, “A message to the lady of Laetoli” was a major highlight of January’s Global Maternal Health Conference (GMHC2013), and we are…
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Submit Your Article to the MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The MHTF and the journal PLOS currently have a call for papers open for year two of maternal health collection, with the theme “maternal health is…
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Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders to Hold Scientific Day May 10
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Every year, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) holds a conference, Scientific Day, to present findings from humanitarian action and assistance programs around the world,…
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Special Report The Lancet Focuses on Maternal and Child Health in Iraq
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In “Roots of Iraq’s maternal and child health crisis run deep” published today in The Lancet as part of a special edition on health in…
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Maternal Health Channel: Pregnancy is Not a Disease, and Should Not be a Death Sentence
By: Betty Blay Ackah, Maternal Health Channel Publicity, Creative Storm Networks Approximately 2,700 women in Ghana die every year, and many thousands more suffer serious injuries and disabilities from complications…
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Register for IDEAS March 20 Web Seminar on Human Rights and Accountability for Maternal Health Commitments
Informed Decisions for Actions (IDEAS), kicks off its 2013 monthly web seminar series to exchange knowledge, discuss literature and share experiences on maternal and newborn health next week. The first session, on…
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As “Functional Cure” Suggests Possibilities for HIV/AIDS Cure, New Findings Underscore Contribution of AIDS to Pregnancy-related Deaths
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Last week’s announcement that a baby girl born HIV-positive in Mississippi had been functionally cured of the disease drew the attention of media around the…
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UN Commission on the Status of Women; Human Rights Watch Draw Attention to Child Marriage
Last Thursday, a special session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held to draw attention to the issue of child marriage, and the experiences of…