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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Are Women Being Forcibly Sterilized in Uzbekistan?
This week’s issue of The Lancet reports on accusations of forced sterilizations of women in Uzbekistan. One non-governmental organization gathered evidence of 80,000 sterilizations over seven months in 2010 but…
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Vote for 2012 Innovators at Saving Lives at Birth
Last year, USAID, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and DFID provided 24 grants to innovative projects to improve maternal and…
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New Book: Maternal and Perinatal Health in Developing Countries
A new book out this month, co-edited by our colleague Julia Hussein from the University of Aberdeen, provides global context and an analysis of interventions for improving maternal and perinatal…
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MiP2012 Day One: Understanding the Scope of Malaria in Pregnancy
This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Take Away Messages from Day One, June 26th, 2012, at Malaria…
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2012 GETHealth Summit Global Education + Technology Health Summit
Our colleagues at Johns Hopkins University and a number of other partners are organizing an upcoming summit at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City on October…
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Starting Tomorrow: Technical Meeting on Malaria in Pregnancy
This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. The Maternal Health Task Force is delighted to be hosting a…
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Putting Malaria In Pregnancy Back Where it Belongs – on the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Platform
By: Koki Agarwal, Co-Chair, Role Back Malaria “Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group, Director, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire…
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Advocating for Integration of Maternal Health and HIV Services in India
By: Mohammad Ahsan, CEDPA India The following is final part of a series of project updates from the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA). The MHTF is supporting their…
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How Much Would It Cost to Meet the Unmet Need for Contraception?
Earlier this week, the Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA published a new study that estimates the number of women with an unmet need for contraception to be 222 million in 2012,…
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The Los Angeles Times Reports on Forced Abortions in China
In an article, China one-child policy leads to forced abortions, mothers’ deaths, published on June 15th, Barbara Demick writes about the issue of forced abortions and sterilizations in the rural…