Quality, Not Quantity of Care for Maternal and Child Health

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By: Sean Peoples, Multimedia Producer, the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

“It’s not about counting how many times a mother interacts with antenatal services or comes to the facility. But it’s what happens in these encounters that matters,” said Dr. Mariam Claeson, the director of maternal newborn and child health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in last week’s podcast from the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative. Listen to the full podcast and read more highlights from last month’s dialogue on maintaining our momentum in maternal and newborn health…read more

Family Planning, Reproductive Health Crucial to Zika Response, Says Chloë Cooney

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By: Sean Peoples, Multimedia Producer, the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program

“Zika has made a long-standing public health crisis impossible to ignore,” said Chloë Cooney, director of global advocacy at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in last Friday’s podcast from the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative. Read more highlights from this month’s policy dialogue on Zika in the context of sexual and reproductive health and rights…read more