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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New Grant Aims to Curb Infant Mortality in Ghana by Helping Mothers to Reach Hospitals
On October 29th, the New York Times reported that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently provided a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Massachusetts nonprofit, to identify…
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Researchers To Examine the Impact of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals
On October 17th, Harvard School of Public Health featured a post, Researchers To Examine the Impact of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, about a group of researchers who are…
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Making Pragmatic Choices: Women’s Experiences of Delivery Care in Northern Ethiopia
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth recently published an article, Making pragmatic choices: Women’s experiences of delivery care in Northern Ethiopia, that looks into women’s experiences and perceptions around delivery care in Tigray,…
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Ten Opportunities to Work in Maternal Health and/or Global Health Knowledge Management
Over the past couple of weeks, our team has identified several exciting opportunities to work on projects relating to maternal health and/or global health knowledge management around the world—including posts in Ethiopia, India,…
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Experts Discuss Recommendations for Addressing Obstetric Fistula and Uterine Prolapse
By: Payal Chandiramani, The Wilson Center Obstetric fistula is “not just a medical issue, but a human issue,” said Dr. Luc de Bernis, senior maternal health advisor at UNFPA, during…
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Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden
On October 9th, 2012, PLoS Medicine published a paper, Serious and Life-Threatening Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden, that describes the global burden of pregnancy-related infections (including and…
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Understanding the Factors Associated with Institutional Delivery Service Utilization in Ethiopia
A recent study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth explored levels of institutional delivery service utilization and the associated factors in Munisa Woreda, South East Ethiopia. Take a look at the…
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Strategic Steps for Global Action on Maternal Health Medicines
The Maternal Health Task Force, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Global Health Initiative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and PATH are delighted to invite you to an upcoming dialogue!…
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On Day of the Girl, Putting Girls First
In honor of International Day of the Girl Child, Ann K. Blanc, Vice President and Director of Poverty, Gender and Youth at the Population Council and Senior Advisor to the…
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On International Day of the Girl Child, Catapult Opens Its Digital Doors!
From our colleagues at Catapult: Catapult.org Launches First Crowdfunding Site Focused on Equality for Girls and Women New York, NY, October 11, 2012 – Today, on International Day of the Girl…