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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Pathfinder International Shares New Technical Tools for Global Health Practitioners
Our colleagues at Pathfinder International have recently issued several new capacity building tools for global health practitioners. The tools, part of a collection called Straight to the Point Tools, include…
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Young Champions Share Their Wishes for Maternal Health
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative As our Young Champions of Maternal Health pass the nine-month fellowship program’s midpoint, we asked them to…
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Join the Conversation: Sex, Money, and Birth Control
By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The Thomson Reuters Foundation and the World Bank are teaming up on Wednesday, July 17th, 2013…
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Youth Participation is Central to the International Conference on Family Planning
According to the International Conference on Family Planning website, “Today, one in four people on earth are aged 10-25. It is the largest population of youth in history. Young people’s…
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Why Are Women Dying When They Reach the Hospital on Time?
By: Dr. Alice Self, Sandwell General Hospital, Lyndon, West Bromwich; Hannah Knight, Research Fellow, Health Informatics, Office for Research and Clinical Audit, Lindsay Stewart R&D Centre, Royal College of Obstetricians…
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New Estimates of Term and Preterm Babies Born Too Small
The Lancet Global Health, the recently launched open-access global health journal of The Lancet, has published new national and regional estimates of term and preterm babies who are born small…
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New Report Shows That Midwife-attended Births Are on the Rise in the United States
A new study, published last month in the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health, shares an analysis of two decades of CDC data showing that midwife-attended deliveries are on the…
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The Lancet Launches New Open-access Global Health Journal and Blog
The Lancet has launched a new open-access global health journal! According to Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, open-access publishing is something he and others at The Lancet have wanted…
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ICASA 2013: Now More Than Ever, Targeting Zero
An expected 10,000 delegates will soon gather in Cape Town, South Africa for the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). The conference, with the theme of Now…
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New Report From UNAIDS and PEPFAR: What About the Women?
By: Ann Starrs, President and Co-Founder, Family Care International Two years ago, in July 2011, UNAIDS launched a joint initiative with PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS…