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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What Are Key Maternal And Newborn Areas To Address? Experiences From a Maternal and Newborn Project in Rural Uganda
By Rornald Muhumuza Kananura
In the blog—Who is to blame for the Poor Health Workers Attitudes and how can we cure This Disease by Dr. Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho—it was indicated that some women have opted to give birth at home rather than face the wrath of health workers.
This is true. Through the voices of community and health workers’ voices, I will share with you maternal and newborn challenges based on the experience from the implementation of a maternal and newborn care project in rural communities of Uganda. -
Innovative Technology and Trainings Empower New Generation of Midwives
Imagine you are a physician working in a rural health center in a developing country. You’re helping a woman deliver her baby, and it’s just arrived but is not breathing. Meanwhile, the mother has started to hemorrhage. You’re the only one working in the clinic that day, and many life-saving treatments need to start within one minute. You have 60 seconds to make decisions that could cost the lives of two people.
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The True Cost of a Mother’s Death: Calculating the Toll on Children
By Emily Maistrellis, Policy Coordinator, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Walif was only 16 and his younger sister, Nassim, just 11 when their mother died in childbirth in Butajira, Ethiopia.
Both Walif and Nassim had been promising students, especially Walif, who had hoped to score high on the national civil service exam after completing secondary school. But following the death of their mother, their father left them to go live with a second wife in the countryside. Walif dropped out of school to care for his younger siblings, as did Nassim and two other sisters, who had taken jobs as house girls in Addis Ababa and Saudi Arabia. -
Adolescent Motherhood: Challenges and Lessons Learned for SRHR Advocacy
By: Cecilia Garcia Ruiz, Gender Projects Coordinator, Espolea Working on the phenomenon of adolescent and young motherhood requires a deep understanding of the various structural factors leading to early pregnancies…
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New Maternal Health Jobs
Are you interested in working in maternal and newborn health? At the MHTF, we like to encourage knowledgeable and capable people, like yourself, to join the field and pursue new…
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Building Community Capacity for Maternal Health Promotion: An Important Complement to Investments in Health Systems Strengthening
By: Ellen Brazier, Senior Technical Advisor for Community Engagement, EngenderHealth; Moustapha Diallo, Country Director, EngenderHealth Guinea EngenderHealth’s Fistula Care Plus project recently published the results of two studies in Guinea,…
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UNGA Week Shows Maternal and Newborn Health Are Central to Development Challenges
By: Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Interim President of Global Advocacy, Family Care International This year’s UN General Assembly was full of high-profile moments that reinforced the need for investment and action to…
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Making a Human-Rights and Socioeconomic Case for Preventing Maternal Mortality
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health On October 7, 2014, a panel of experts in maternal health—moderated by Dr. Ana…
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WHO Welcomes Revitalized Interest in Maternal and Newborn Heath Integration
By: Severin Ritter von Xylander, WHO This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Health Integration Blog Series, “Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health: In Pursuit of Quality” technical meeting. The…
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A Year of Mentoring, a Lifetime of Impact: The Maternal Health Young Professionals Program in India
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health At the beginning of this year, the MHTF teamed up with St. John’s Medical…