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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Partograph Meeting Reflections, Ctd
More from Barbara Kwast on the partograph meeting: The meeting called by Fistula Care and the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at Engender Health on revitalizing the partograph for the…
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Maternal Health Dialogue Series Report Available
Over the past two years, the Woodrow Wilson Center has convened a number of public and private focusing on neglected issues in maternal health and strategies to move the maternal…
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New Interactive Timeline
Over the past three years, the MHTF has done a wide variety of activities, including, but certainly not limited to, hosting meetings and conferences, identifying innovative approaches to improving maternal…
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Translating Promise Into Reality: Misoprostol for Post-partum Hemorrhage
By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International The following originally appeared on the Family Care International blog. It is reposted here with permission. Every five minutes, somewhere in…
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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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Opportunity with the Women & Health Initiative
The Women & Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health is seeking a Project Manager for the Hansen Project on Maternal and Child Health: The Women and Health…
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Revitalizing the Partograph: Does the Evidence Support a Global Call to Action?
By: Celia Pett, Medical Associate, EngenderHealth; Pam Harper, Senior Writer/Editor, Engender Health The following is a summary of a meeting hosted by the Fistula Care Project in New York in…
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Making Life: A Risky Proposition
Tonight on ABC’s 20/20, Diane Sawyer and a team of correspondents will explore the state maternal health in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and Bangladesh: “There is so much we can do…
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Today: Delivering Solutions: Advancing Dialogue To Improve Maternal Health
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, Environmental Change and Security Program, Africa Program and Council of Women World Leaders in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force and the…
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The Alliance for RMNH After One Year
Written by: Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health “It is an international scandal that more than 350,000 women die in the developing world every year from complications in pregnancy…