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 MHTF-PLoS Collection and Call for Papers
In collaboration with the editors of PLoS, we have launched a collection of papers on maternal health and issued a call for papers: While there are many approaches to take,…
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Partograph Meeting Reflections
At the technical meeting on partograph use earlier this month a wide variety of opinions were heard about the appropriateness of the tool, how to increase its coverage, and many…
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Adapting to and Mitigating Climate Change to Promote MNCH
Earlier this year, we ran a series of posts exploring the relationship between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and maternal health. A new paper (gated) published in Current Opinions on…
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Maternal Health Supplies Mapping Survey
Please take a moment to assist our colleagues at PATH who are conducting a survey on maternal health supplies in collaboration with Population Action International and the Maternal Health Supplies…
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Access to Maternal Health Care for Romani Women
Access to health care, particularly maternal care, is not limited to the developing world, nor always the result of an inability to pay. Racism, poverty, and other forms of discrimination…
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Fistula Hotline Launched in Sierra Leone
Last week’s meeting on the partograph use was organized by the Fistula Care Project since its use may reduce obstructed labor, one of the main causes of obstetric fistula. Not…
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Engaging Faith-Inspired Organizations in the Response to Maternal Health
By: Tim Thomas, Acting Director, MHTF The Advancing Maternal Health Dialogue series has been seminal to meeting the MHTF mandate of convening new allied partners around emerging and neglected issues…
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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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The Partograph: A Simple Tool That is Quite Complicated
The partograph is often referred to as a simple tool (see here, here, here). The word simple often appears in a definition of partograph. However, if one thing became clear…
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Revitalizing the Partograph: Day 2
The second day of the partograph meeting began with a discussion of how to overcome some of the challenges to partograph use identified on Day 1. The most significant challenges,…