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 Innovations: Improving Access to Care
Facilitating access to quality care is the crux of improving maternal and newborn health. The Maternal Health Innovations Fund, an MHTF project, recently supported several projects in collaboration with The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and Pakistan’s Agha Khan University (AKU) that investigated access to care in a variety of contexts…read more
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Adding Content to Contact: Articles and Reviews Now Available Open-Access
Recent research conducted by the Maternal Health Task Force, along with colleagues from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), Instituto de Cooperación Social Integrare (ICS…
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Family Planning and Maternal Health: Four Takeaways From the 2016 International Conference on Family Planning
By: Jacquelyn Caglia, Deputy Director of Administration & Operations, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The 2016 International Conference on Family Planning, convened in Nusa…
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Engaging Women with Mental Health Conditions in Health Care
By: Laura Line, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Maternity Care Coalition This post is part of “Mental Health: The Missing Piece in Maternal Health,” a blog series co-hosted by the MHTF, the Mental…
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Beyond Availability: Barriers to Contraceptive Method Use
By: Estefania Santamaria Flores, Research Assistant, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health While availability of contraceptive methods and integration of family planning services into maternal…
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Job Opportunities in Maternal and Reproductive Health!
Interested in a position in maternal and reproductive health? We’ve rounded up job postings from around the globe…read more
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To Fight Zika We Must fight Poverty and Powerlessness and Ensure That Women Enjoy Their Rights
By Alicia Ely Yamin, Director of Policy, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights The speed with which the Zika virus appears to be spreading is only surpassed by the speed at which structural political failures in Latin America have been transformed into apparent personal deficiencies. Zika is transmitted by aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the same mosquitoes that transmit dengue fever. These mosquitoes breed in stagnant water and are most endemically found where poor people lack adequate plumbing and sanitation, and collect water in open containers…read more
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Global Maternal Newborn Health: Current Progress and Future Directions
Last Thursday, February 4, 2016, global and maternal health experts gathered in the Leadership Studio at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss the status and imperatives…
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The Global Development Framework in Transition: Where Are Mothers and Newborns in the Post-2015 Era?
By Koki Agarwal, Director, Maternal and Child Survival Program; Ana Langer, Director, Maternal Health Task Force; and Joy Riggs-Perla, Director, Saving Newborn Lives at Save the Children While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underlined the necessity of better policies and programs to improve maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS, malaria, and other health conditions, the approach had significant flaws. Having separate goals for mothers and children may have been a disservice, fostering the persistent segmentation of service delivery. The era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently started. With their focus on universal health care, equity, and integration, the new policy framework represents a historic opportunity to build on progress, while addressing the limitations of the MDGs. It is critical, however, not to let an emphasis on maternal and newborn health wane in this new broad agenda… read more
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New Infographic by the MHTF on Maternal Mortality in the United States
The MHTF is proud to present a new infographic, highlighting the United States’ shortcoming in achieving Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5), to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. In fact, not…