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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2013 World Malaria Report Finds Remarkable Progress Since 2000; ‘Room for Improvement’ in Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant This year’s World Malaria Report finds that both incidence and deaths attributed to malaria have declined sharply since 2000. The report finds that as coverage…
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Tech4MH: Avoiding mHealth “Pilotitis” Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t Start Small
By: Neal Lesh, Chief Strategy Officer, Dimagi Since 2008, Dimagi has helped organizations in 30 countries set up mobile projects with CommCare, an open source mobile platform that supports frontline…
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Reminder: Join the MHTF and PLOS Tomorrow to Celebrate Our Second Year Collection of Maternal Health Research
As we wrote last week, the MHTF is looking forward to hosting “Improving maternal health: Insights from around the world,” an event to celebrate our year two collection of new…
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Tech4MH: Complementary Global Health Innovations Should Be Marketed, Sold and Shipped Together at Scale
By: Meg Wirth, Founder, Maternova Maternova is a social enterprise building out a fast track for commercialization of life-saving technologies for maternal, newborn and child health. Why commercialization? Isn’t the current trend…
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Tech4MH: A Guest Blog Series on Technologies for Improving Maternal Health Care
By: Yogeeta Manglani, Research Assistant, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative The Maternal Health Task Force is excited to announce the launch of Tech4MH, a blog series that…
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Global Investment Framework and Lancet Series Lay Out Vision for Achieving Global Convergence in Health by 2035
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, The Lancet launched a special issue featuring the Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation, a report by the Lancet’s Commission on Investing in Health…
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Call for Papers: Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother–Infant Pair
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and PLOS Medicine are committed to creating a platform for…
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Action on HIV and Maternal Health is Needed in Sub-Saharan Africa to End Preventable Maternal Mortality and Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation
By: Tamil Kendall, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Women and Health Initiative Globally, HIV and complications of childbearing are the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age. The epicenter…
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Mahmoud Fathalla Explores the Relationship Among Biological Evolution, Scientific Advances and Women’s Reproductive Health Challenges
By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant In “How evolution of the human brain shaped women’s sexual and reproductive health,” an article published recently in Reproductive Biology Insights, Mahmoud Fathalla explores the…
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Reflecting on Developing Country Parallels at Launch of Program to Address U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis
By: Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers As an OB/GYN who has worked in dozens of developing countries, I have seen firsthand what it’s like to give birth in…