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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Getting Water to Women: AMREF’s Mkuranga District WASH Project, Tanzania
By: Koronel Mashalla Kema, Program Manager and Technical WASH leader, AMREF Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, he is also a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. As an engineer…
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Introducing WASH and Women’s Health: A Blog Series Coordinated by WASH Advocates
By: Rebecca Fishman, Director of Operations and Special Projects, WASH Advocates This guest post is the first in the series WASH & Women’s Health, which WASH Advocates is coordinating for…
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A Manifesto for Maternal Health in a New Era
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, The Lancet published “A Manifesto for Maternal Health post-2015,” which was co-authored by MHTF Director Ana Langer, along with Lancet Editor Richard Horton, and…
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MamaYe Campaign Aims to Mobilize Public for Maternal Survival in Africa
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, Evidence for Action launched MamaYe, a campaign that uses digital and mobile phone technology alongside community involvement in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone…
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Health Worker Survey Finds Gaps in Facilities’ Maternal Health Supplies
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A new article, “Access to essential technologies: a survey of health workers in Africa and Asia,” which was written by Jonathan M Spector, Jonathan Reisman, Stuart Lipsitz, Priya…
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Call for Abstracts for 2013 International Family Planning Conference
The Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia and the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have issued…
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Tell Us What You Think: Fill Out the MHTF Website Survey
Please take a moment to fill out this survey on the Maternal Health Task Force website. We’re hoping that the survey will generate some useful insights into who you–our visitors–are,…
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Every Mother Counts Petition Aims to Put Women at the Heart of Policy Decisions
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Yesterday, in a blog post first published on The Huffington Post, Every Mother Counts Founder Christy Turlington Burns launched a petition asking female members of…
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A Road Less Travelled Highlights Gap in Maternal Health Services for Kenya’s Maasai Communities
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant A Road Less Travelled, which is a partnership project led by Anglican Overseas Aid, Australia that supports nomadic pastoralists to improve maternal and child health…
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Ghana Television Series to Focus on Maternal Health
As The Guardian reported today, Ghana’s GTV will begin airing the “Maternal Health Channel” tonight. Through a series of 30 minute episodes that mix drama and documentary, the Maternal Health…