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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Northeast Nigeria Myths and Superstitions Pose More Barriers to Health of Women and Babies Than Conflict
By: Nasir Umar, Country Coordinator Nigeria, IDEAS Project Eight months ago a state of emergency was declared across northeast Nigeria due to internal conflict. Residents have had their movement, mobile…
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New Al Jazeera Documentary: Saving Lives Through Community Involvement
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health High rates of maternal and newborn deaths affect many countries around the world. Malawi,…
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Lancet Midwifery Series to Launch at the End of June
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health During the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) congress this week in Prague, The Lancet announced its plan to launch a…
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INTERGROWTH-21st: A Tool for Carrying Out the Every Newborn Action Plan
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health On May 24th, 2014 a critical commitment was made to newborn health: All 194…
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#SoWMy2014: Beyond Just Maternity Care
Yesterday, the MHTF joined with UNFPA, ICM, MCHIP, Jhpiego, Girls Globe, Women Deliver, Johnson & Johnson, Save the Children, and the UN Foundation to take part in a Twitter Chat…
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UNFPA Launches “State of the World’s Midwifery 2014″ Report Today
From UNFPA press release Despite a steady drop in maternal and newborn deaths since 1990, hundreds of thousands of women and newborns continue to die each year during pregnancy and…
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When 2 Become 1: Integrating the Health Care needs of Mothers and Infants, the New MHTF-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health
By: Jennifer Horsley, Editorial Project Coordinator, PLOS Collections This blog post was originally posted on Speaking of Medicine, the blog of the PLOS Medical Journals’ Community. The post highlights the June…
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The Adding Content to Contact Project: Case Studies for Implementing Antenatal and Postnatal Care in Low-Resource Settings
By: Annie Kearns, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative For the past nine months, the Adding Content to Contact (ACC) project at the Women and Health…
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Connecting Fistula Care and the Manifesto for Maternal Health
By: Bethany Cole, Global Projects Manager, Fistula Care Plus, EngenderHealth From 2007-2013 Engender Health managed the Fistula Care project in partnership with IntraHealth International and supported by USAID. The project…
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The Lancet’s Editor Richard Horton Provides Commentary on Recent MMR Estimates
By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health If you have been following the news and our MMR Estimates Blog Series, you…