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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E-Learning: Building the Capacity of Frontline Health Workers
In a recent post on the Huffington Post Impact blog, Closing the Capacity Gap in Saving Lives at Birth, Muhammad H. Zaman, Director of the Laboratory of Engineering Education and Development…
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UN General Assembly: Celebrating Progress and Looking to the Future
By: Jill Sheffield, Founder and President, Women Deliver This post was originally posted on Women Deliver. While deep into the planning stages of Women Deliver 2010, my phone rang and…
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Event: Programmatic and Policy Recommendations for Addressing Obstetric Fistula and Uterine Prolapse
On September 27th, our colleagues at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC will convene an event, Preventing Injuries During Childbirth: Programmatic and Policy Recommendations for Addressing Obstetric Fistula and Uterine…
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Why Non-Communicable Diseases Must Be Part of Any New Development Goals
In a recent post on the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog, Johanna Ralston, Chief Executive of the World Heart Federation, and Ann Keeling, Chief Executive of the International Diabetes Federation, argue that…
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BioMed Central Call for Papers: Quality Improvement in Neonatal Care
BioMed Central, an open-access publisher, recently issued a call for papers on quality improvement for neonatal care. From the call: Open access publishing has the ability to rapidly communicate medical…
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The Tablet’s Journey
By: Shirine Mohagheghpour and Amy Grossman, Venture Strategies Innovations (VSI) For laboring mothers in Bangladesh, the generic medicine, misoprostol, can mean the difference between a happy, healthy delivery and…
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Maternal Sepsis and Ignaz Semmelweis, the Father of Infection Control
Today is the first ever World Sepsis Day (WSD)! World Sepsis Day is an initiative of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), involving organizations from sixty-nine countries, that aims to call…
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Improving Women’s Health by Ensuring Maternal Health Product Availability
By: Suzy Sacher and Paula Nersesian, John Snow, Inc. Center for Health Logistics This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series,…
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Catapult, a New Crowdfunding Platform to Advance the Lives of Women and Girls
A message from our friends at Women Deliver and Catapult, a new crowdfunding platform that supports projects advancing the lives of girls and women around the world: As the Catalyzing…
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New Research Challenges Excess Mortality Risk of Adolescent Mothers
By: Ana Langer, Director of the Maternal Health Task Force and Women and Health Initiative Over the course of the Safe Motherhood movement, the common wisdom has been that adolescent…