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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2011 Mobile Health (mHealth) Winter Institute
Enhancing health through the use of mobile technologies December 5-9, 2011, Washington DC in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit Using mobile technologies to more rapidly and accurately assess and…
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“Integration” and Maternal Health
By: Emily Puckart, Program Associate, MHTF This is the third post by Emily Puckart on “Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What New Research Shows.” Read the first and the second….
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USAID Technical Series: Prevention and Management of PPH and PE/E
Yesterday afternoon, a group of maternal health practitioners met at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Dr. Jeffrey M. Smith of MCHIP gave a presentation on a report he…
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Ugandan Maternal Deaths in the NYT
Recently, The New York Times featured a piece on free health care in Sierra Leone for mothers and children. Maternal health had another prominent space in The Times last weekend…
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Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage: From Evidence to Action
By: Shafia Rashid, Senior Program Officer, Global Advocacy, Family Care International The following was originally posted on FCI’s blog. It is reposted here with permission. Around the corner from the…
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Cash Transfer Series Round-Up
Recently, on the MHTF blog, we have been focusing a number of posts on cash transfer schemes, particularly Janani Suraksha Yojana in India, that promote maternal health. We received a…
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Reproductive Health in Conflict Settings
During conflicts and displacement, the need for reproductive health services does not disappear. A new paper in BMC Health and Conflict reports on baseline findings from surveys of women in…
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The NYT highlights Sierra Leone’s financing scheme
The New York Times described experiences of mothers and health workers since Sierra Leone instituted a scheme to provide free health care to pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children under…
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Can Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Be Eliminated?
The prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is a major health challenge and one that is addressed by an MHTF-supported project at mothers2 mothers. According to AVERT, “Without treatment,…
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Morocco Forum on Maternal Mortality: Sharing Experience and Sustaining Progress
We posted recently about the success that Morocco has had in reducing its maternal mortality ratio and a recent meeting in Rabat that “brought together leaders in research, policy, and…