Let’s Reward the Use of Maternal Health Supplies

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By: Milka Dinev, LAC Forum Regional Advisor, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

As far as maternal health supplies go, it is easy for groups to forget the role of the three key life-saving commodities and therefore fail to prioritize their presence in health facilities 100% of the time. Arguably, services — with their immediate human element — make for better story-telling a lot of the time. And good storytelling is a mainstay of the marketing and publicity that surround award mechanisms. And by comparison, supplies often carry rather sterile connotations of warehouses, supply chains, and transportation… read more

Call for Posts: How to Increase Access to Maternal and Reproductive Health Supplies

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By: Beth Yeager, Principal Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for Health & Chair, Maternal Health Supplies Caucus, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition; Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Milka Dinev, LAC Forum Regional Advisor, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)/Maternal Health Supplies Caucus (MHS) and Family Care International (FCI) share the goal of increasing awareness of the key role that reliable access to quality maternal and reproductive health supplies plays in reducing maternal mortality. To this end, we’d like to invite you to contribute a post to our blog series, Increasing access to maternal and reproductive health supplies: Leveraging lessons learned in preventing maternal mortality… read more