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Starting Out Right: Building Improved Hygiene Practices Into the Antenatal Platform

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Access to safe drinking water and improved hygiene are important for reducing diarrhea morbidity and mortality. A clinic-based intervention to integrate the distribution of hygiene kits (including safe water storage containers, sodium hypochlorite water treatment solution, soap, ORS, and educational materials) at first … Continue reading “Starting Out Right: Building Improved Hygiene Practices Into the Antenatal Platform”

Adapting the Reaching Every District (RED) Strategy in Reducing Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Disadvantaged Women in Mongolia

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 The RED strategy, originally introduced in Mongolia by WHO and UNICEF to improve immunization coverage was adapted for meeting sexual and reproductive health needs of the disadvantaged women: poor, living in remote pastoral areas, unregistered, young girls at risk, disabled or subject of gender-based … Continue reading “Adapting the Reaching Every District (RED) Strategy in Reducing Unmet Need for Family Planning Among Disadvantaged Women in Mongolia”

Early to Breast, Early to Thrive: Promoting Breastfeeding in Democratic Republic of Congo

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: The USAID-funded Integrated Health Project (IHP) in the Democratic Republic of Congo has supported optimal breastfeeding since 2010 for numerous benefits: early skin-to-skin contact, protective factors of colostrum, meeting full early nutritional needs, and assisting in uterine involution and postpartum hemorrhage. The IHPŠ—Ès … Continue reading “Early to Breast, Early to Thrive: Promoting Breastfeeding in Democratic Republic of Congo”

The UN Has Officially Adopted the Sustainable Development Goals: What Does This Mean for Women and Newborns?

Just hours ago, the United Nations’ General Assembly, or UNGA, officially adopted the Sustainable Development Goals: goals that will hopefully unite the world for the next 15 years to end extreme poverty and improve the livelihoods and health of all. These 17 goals bridge a wide array of topics—from climate change to nutrition, inequities to health—with … Continue reading “The UN Has Officially Adopted the Sustainable Development Goals: What Does This Mean for Women and Newborns?”

Q&A Interview With Influential Jamaican Midwife Victoria Melhado

This post is part of our “Supporting the Human in Human Resources” blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and Jacaranda Health. Katja Iversen is the CEO of Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization that brings together diverse voices and interests to share solutions and drive progress in maternal and sexual and reproductive health and rights. … Continue reading “Q&A Interview With Influential Jamaican Midwife Victoria Melhado”

Commemorating Hellen Mammeja Technau

It is with very heavy hearts that we share that Hellen Mammeja Technau, a Maternal Health Young Champion, passed away unexpectedly last weekend.  She was a South African midwife, whose passion for helping those less fortunate and her ability to “think big” led her to not only become the dedicated maternal health professional, but also … Continue reading “Commemorating Hellen Mammeja Technau”

Can Women Deliver a New Development Agenda in 2015?

This post is part of a series of posts about the recent Women Deliver 2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The disempowerment of women and girls is the single biggest driver of inequality today, said Helen Clark, administrator of the UN Development Program, during a plenary on the final day here at the Women Deliver … Continue reading “Can Women Deliver a New Development Agenda in 2015?”

Placing Women at the Center: Rethinking the RMNCH Continuum of Care

This post is cross-posted from the FCI Blog and the PMNCH website. Last week’s Global Maternal Health Conference (GMHC), held in Arusha, Tanzania, was both inspiring and sobering. Twenty-five years after the Safe Motherhood Initiative was launched at an international conference held in neighboring Kenya, maternal mortality has finally begun to decline, and there are … Continue reading “Placing Women at the Center: Rethinking the RMNCH Continuum of Care”

Investing in Supply Chains of Family Planning Commodities in Pakistan Empowers Women and Boosts Economy

This blog post is cross-posted from JSI’s The Pump. I’ve arrived at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Tanzania to present the results of two years of private-public partnership for Pakistan supply chain systems and to learn from other programs. Over the past three years, the United States government has made an unprecedented investment in … Continue reading “Investing in Supply Chains of Family Planning Commodities in Pakistan Empowers Women and Boosts Economy”