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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EngenderHealth’s Perspective on New UN Maternal Mortality Estimates
By: Pam Barnes, President, EngenderHealth Trends in Maternal Mortality, 1990 to 2008, just released by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNFPA, and The World Bank, reports…
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Women Count. So It Is Time to Count Women.
By: Jill Sheffield, Founder and President, Women Deliver There’s no doubt that this is excellent news. The new UN maternal mortality figures further confirm the trend that the IHME data…
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Family Planning and Saving Lives– or Why the Practical Should Really Not be Political
By: Maria M. Pawlowska, Cambridge Gates Scholar The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Below is the first of these…
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Going Digital: Taking the Maternal Health Community Online
By: Janna Oberdorf, Communications Manager, Women Deliver The Global Maternal Health Conference has ended – and ended with a bang. The “Maternal Health Digital” panel closed the conference with exciting,…
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Innovations and Opportunities to Achieve MDG 5: View the Live Stream Today!
Marie Stopes International and EngenderHealth invite you to view a panel discussion entitled, “Innovations and Opportunities to Achieve MDG 5”. Panelists include Pam Barnes (President, EngenderHealth), Michael Holscher (Senior VP,…
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Women: Inspiration & Enterprise Symposium
White Ribbon Alliance presents the 1st Annual Women Inspiration & Enterprise (WIE) symposium which will be held next Monday, September 20th 2010 in New York City, NY. The symposium coincides…
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Book on Women’s Empowerment and Health: Call for Abstracts
The Women’s Health and Empowerment Center of Expertise (one of three Centers in the University of California Global Health Institute) is working to develop a multidisciplinary book on women’s health and empowerment. The…
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Join Amnesty International in Times Square
On September 20th from 9:00am – 9:30am in Times Square, Amnesty International will be displaying a “clock” which will count the women who die every minute as a result of…
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Proud to be Indian and Making a Difference in Women’s Lives
By: K G Venkateswaran, Deputy Director, Planning for Improving Maternal and Neonatal Health in Northern India Project, IntraHealth International, Inc. A longer version of this blog was originally posted on…
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Post-Partum Haemorrhage: Low-Tech Interventions, High Potential to Save Lives
By: Maria M. Pawlowska, Cambridge Gates Scholar According to the latest WHO Countdown report, post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is responsible for over a third of maternal deaths worldwide. During a session…