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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Maternal Health Policy Series: HR for Maternal Health: Midwives, TBAs, and Task-Shifting
MHTF is looking forward to the discussion, Human Resources for Maternal Health: Midwives, TBAs, and Task-Shifting, to be held Wednesday, January 6, at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC…
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Leading Writers Call Attention to International Maternal Health
Over the weekend, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof and widely published freelance writer Elayne Clift wrote columns exploring key maternal health issues. Kristof raised the neglected issue of…
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MHTF and Population Action International Team Up to Address Issues of Accessibility of Maternal Health Supplies
By: Roy Jacobstein, Medical Director, RESPOND Project, EngenderHealth Observations on “Linking Reproductive and Maternal Health Supplies” Population Action International (PAI) in partnership with the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth…
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Maternal Health Policy Series at the Woodrow Wilson Center
The Maternal Health Policy Series at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC kicked off last week with a full house! The packed room came to join three panelists in…
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Accelerating Equality for Women and Girls around the World: A Conversation with Media, Activists, Entrepreneurs and You
On Thursday, December 3rd, 2009, five influential voices in women’s rights gathered to discuss equality for women and girls around the world. The event, Accelerating Equality for Women and Girls…
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Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health Event Series
The Maternal Health Task Force has been working with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to create a series of events on…
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Article of the Week
Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post’s World Editor, wrote a five- part series about her recent trip to Ethiopia to visit UNFPA’s maternal health programs. These articles describe a woman’s…
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Two New Additions to the MHTF
We are so excited to have Sarah Blake and Kate Mitchell on board as our new Knowledge Management Interns. We have already felt their contributions speeding up the pace of…
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Article of the Week
The Bulletin of the WHO recently published electronically a paper showing that the maternal mortality ratio in Mongolia declined substantially between 1992 and 2007, after the introduction of a comprehensive…
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Articles of the Week
We have two interesting pieces for you to read this week. The first is a multimedia BBC news story on maternal mortality around the world and one particular solution to…