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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Preventing Maternal Deaths in Africa
By: Isabella Danel, MD, MS, the CDC Division of Reproductive Health This post originally appeared on the CDC’s Our Global Voices blog. Maternal health has improved in most regions of…
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Event: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programs as a Strategy to Advance Maternal Health
The Wilson Center will host another fantastic event within their Maternal Health Initiative program on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programs as a Strategy to Advance Maternal Health. The event will…
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Manifesto for Maternal Health: Highlights From The Safe Motherhood Program and Midwives for Haiti
By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Continuing the celebration of the one-year anniversary of the “Manifesto for Maternal Health,” this post showcases the…
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Quality Obstetric Care and the Lessons That Can Be Learned From the HIV/AIDS Experience
By: Leilani Hastings, Conference Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Last week, BMC International Health and Human Rights published an article by Hammonds and Ooms entitled, “The…
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Manifesto for Maternal Health: Highlights From Women Deliver and Population Council
By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Continuing the celebration of the one-year anniversary of the “Manifesto for Maternal Health,” this post showcases the…
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Reducing Newborn Deaths by Targeting Adolescent Mothers
Last week, Save the Children published a report entitled, “Ending Newborn Deaths.” The report highlights the need to concentrate on the reduction of newborn deaths as it lags behind the…
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Decreasing Indonesia’s Fertility Rate From 5.6 to 2.6: Can it Be Reduced to 2.1?
By: Leilani Hastings, Conference Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Indonesia is making headlines recently (NY Times and The Lancet) as it puts further concerted efforts into…
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Manifesto for Maternal Health, One Year Later: Highlights From PLOS Medicine & PLOS Pathogens
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the “Manifesto for Maternal Health”—co-authored by Ana Langer, Richard Horton,…
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Updates on Post-2015 Maternal Mortality Target Setting
The Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) working group met in January 2014 to continue the ongoing discussion of maternal mortality targets, post-2015 and the end of the Millennium Development Goals….
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Reducing PPH in Senegal With Misoprostol and Oxytocin-Filled Uniject® at Local Health Centers
Family Care International (FCI), along with Gynuity Health Projects, is working towards increasing access and availability of life-saving treatments to prevent post-partum hemorrhage (PPH). Their undertaking to reduce PPH has been…