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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A Closer Look at Lifesaving Maternal Health Medicines
By: Rachel Wilson, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy (PATH), Co-Chair (Maternal Health Supplies Working Group) Today could be the beginning of a significant, life-saving shift for maternal health. The…
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World Water Day 2012: Clean Water is Essential for Good Health–and Good Health Care
In honor of World Water Day, our colleagues at IntraHealth have written a blog post about the links between access to clean water and quality health care. Be sure to check…
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A “Kangaroo Care Champion” in Brazil
By: Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post was originally posted on Impatient Optimists and is reposted here with permission. The Ministry of Health in…
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Maternal Morbidity: Neglected Dimension of Safe Motherhood in the Developing World
Late last year, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a Maternal Health Dialogue Series event on maternal morbidities in developing countries based in part on a report written by Karen Hardee,…
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DFID Celebrates Mothers Day in the UK
Last weekend, the UK celebrated Mother’s Day. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) highlighted the work they support to improve the lives of mothers around the world and engaged…
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Weekend Reading
This week on the MHTF blog: Some reading for the weekend: Related Topics Last Updated Get the latest public health news Stay connected with Harvard Chan School
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Competition for Catalytic Funding: mHealth for Maternal, Child, and Newborn Health
The mHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Innovation Working Group, the UN Secretary-General’s Every Woman Every Child global strategy and the Norwegian Development Cooperation Agency (Norad) recently issued a Call…
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UN Secretary-General and General Assembly President Propose 2015 Conference on Women
Last week, on International Women’s Day, the President of the General Assembly and the United Nations Secretary-General jointly proposed the convening of a global conference on women by the UN…
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Empowering Rural Women Leaders to Promote Maternal Health in Cusco, Peru: Test of a New Teaching Method
The following is the final installment of a series of project updates from Future Generations. MHTF is supporting their project, Using Pregnancy Histories to Help Mothers, based in Peru. More…
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Two Funding Opportunities in Maternal Health
Leadership Development for Enhanced Decision-Making From our colleagues at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: The WHO Implementation Research Platform (IRP) has issued a Call for Proposals:…