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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Blog
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Street Protests Demanding Maternal Health in Uganda
By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Our Young Champions of Maternal Health program helped the MHTF expand its network of likeminded initiatives around the world, most notably through the community…
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Are There Unintended Effects of Changing Health Worker Compensation?
Jed Friedman, from the World Bank, wrote an interesting post about the potential impacts of paying-for-performance for health workers. He notes, that in some cases, introducing extrinsic motivation may decrease…
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A Pen That Can Save Lives: The MHTF Interviews the Inventors of a New Antenatal Screening Tool
The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) had the opportunity to speak with Sean Monagle, member of the student team at Johns Hopkins University which recently won an international competition sponsored…
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TBA or not TBA?, cont’d
Last week, we posted about a discussion at the British Medical Journal on traditional birth attendants and their role in promoting maternal health. Our poll results suggest that our readers…
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UNFPA Releases The State of the World’s Midwifery Report
Earlier today, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released “The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011: Delivering Health, Saving Lives.” In addition to the formal report, UNFPA has included interactive…
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Is China a Model for Improving Maternal Health?
The June edition of the WHO Bulletin features an articles that explores inequality in hospital births in China and finds significant increases in access to facilities. With the exception of…
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Knowledge Translation by ICDDR,B
The following is part of a series of project updates from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). The MHTF is supporting their project, Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge…
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TBA or Not TBA?
The British Medical Journal published two articles this week in their Head to Head feature focusing on the use of traditional birth attendants (TBAs). The use of TBAs has led…
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An Interview on ACFU from m2m
The following is part of a series of project updates from mothers2mothers. MHTF is supporting their project, Using Cell Phones in PMTCT. More information MHTF supported projects can be found…
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Senior Program Officer Opening at the Gates Foundation
Position Title Senior Program Officer – Neonatal Health Division Global Health Program Department Family Health Location Seattle Foundation Overview Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the…