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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Improving Access to Maternal Health Knowledge and Information
By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection…
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Making Childbirth Safer for Pastoralist Mothers in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
By: Hannah Ford, Communications Coordinator, The Road Less Travelled This blog post is cross-posted from The Road Less Travelled. In the Afar region of Ethiopia, 93 percent of mothers deliver their…
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Investing in Supply Chains of Family Planning Commodities in Pakistan Empowers Women and Boosts Economy
By: Dr. Mohammad Tariq, Country Director, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT/Islamabad, JSI This blog post is cross-posted from JSI’s The Pump. I’ve arrived at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania…
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Why Focus on Quality of Care?
By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. Today in Arusha, more than 700 delegates from around the world gathered to begin…
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Day One of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013: Improving Quality of Care
Today marks the first day of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 in Arusha, Tanzania! Over the next three days, stay tuned to the MHTF Blog for conference updates and…
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GMHC2013: Stay Tuned to the Live-stream!
The Global Maternal Health Conference is right around the corner! In an effort to engage a broad audience, the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the three plenaries will…
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New Public Midwifery School Opens in Southern Mexico
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Yesterday, WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, aired a story, Mexico Aims To Save Babies And Moms…
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Quality of Antenatal Care in Zambia: A National Assessment
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth recently published an article, Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: A national assessment,…
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Piecing Together the Maternal Death Puzzle Through Narratives: The Three Delays Model Revisited
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative PLOS ONE recently published an article, Piecing Together the Maternal Death Puzzle through Narratives: The Three Delays…
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Nokia Joins Safe Birth Campaign to Provide Clean Delivery Kits to Women in Crisis Settings
A message from our colleagues at UNFPA: Nokia joins UNFPA’s Safe Birth. Even Here campaign, through which midwives in refugee camps are reporting on safe deliveries by uploading photos and…