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mHealth for Maternal Health: A Conversation With D-TREE International

Could you provide an overview of D-TREE’s projects? D-TREE enables community and facility health workers to deliver high quality health care in low and middle income countries by developing protocols for health workers, designing and testing software for delivering protocols on mobile devices and implementing use of these clinical protocols. Within maternal health, D-TREE’s projects … Continue reading “mHealth for Maternal Health: A Conversation With D-TREE International”

Abstracts Open for Presentations at Technical Meeting: “Throughout the Reproductive Life Course”

USAID, in partnership with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the MCHIP and Evidence to Action Project (E2A) are now accepting abstracts for possible inclusion as individual presentations or preformed panels at the upcoming technical meeting: Throughout the Reproductive Life Course: Opportunities and Challenges for Empowering Girls and Women. The April meeting will highlight … Continue reading “Abstracts Open for Presentations at Technical Meeting: “Throughout the Reproductive Life Course””

Action on HIV and Maternal Health is Needed in Sub-Saharan Africa to End Preventable Maternal Mortality and Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation

Globally, HIV and complications of childbearing are the leading causes of death among women of reproductive age. The epicenter of poor maternal health outcomes associated with HIV is sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of pregnant women living with HIV reside. In this region, women with HIV are six to eight times more likely to die during … Continue reading “Action on HIV and Maternal Health is Needed in Sub-Saharan Africa to End Preventable Maternal Mortality and Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation”

Managing and Preventing Preterm Birth: How Findings From the INTERGROWTH-21st Project Can Improve Both

Every year, 15 million babies are born too soon – that’s 1 in every 10 births.  Preterm birth is the leading cause of newborn deaths globally, affecting every country; it’s the leading cause of newborn deaths in the U.S. and many other high-income countries, but the burden disproportionately affects Africa and South Asia, where 60% … Continue reading “Managing and Preventing Preterm Birth: How Findings From the INTERGROWTH-21st Project Can Improve Both”

New Research: Examining Maternal Health in the Context of Women’s Health Throughout the Lifespan

Each year, the Maternal Health Task Force and PLOS Medicine work together to organize an open access collection of research and commentary on maternal health. The two organizations team up to identify a specific and critical theme that merits further exploration within the broader context of maternal health. The Year 2 Collection, titled ‘Maternal Health … Continue reading “New Research: Examining Maternal Health in the Context of Women’s Health Throughout the Lifespan”

New Content Added to the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health Collection

We’re delighted to announce the addition of new content to our Maternal Health Task Force-PLOS Collection on Maternal Health. This Year 2 Collection, with the theme of “maternal health is women’s health,” emphasizes the importance of seeing maternal health in the context of a woman’s health over the course of her lifetime. This recognizes that while … Continue reading “New Content Added to the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health Collection”

Weekend Reading

This week on the MHTF blog: What to do after 2015? Antenatal and postnatal care as a way to address family planning? New estimates of neonatal mortality An update on knowledge translation from ICDDR,B Some reading for the weekend Being born an African baby Biometric identifiers and poverty reduction in India Using family planning to … Continue reading “Weekend Reading”

How is Janani Suraksha Yojana Performing in Uttar Pradesh?

This post is part of a series of posts on cash transfers and maternal health. To read other posts in the series, click here. If CCTs are a part of your work or research, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us at clindahl@engenderhealth.org if you are interested in writing a guest post on the … Continue reading “How is Janani Suraksha Yojana Performing in Uttar Pradesh?”

Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What New Research Evidence Shows

The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, Africa Program, and Environmental Change and Security Program, in coordination with the Maternal Health Task Force, UNFPA, and the African Population Health & Research Center invite you to a live-streamed discussion of:   Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What Research Evidence Shows Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 9:30 a.m. … Continue reading “Maternal Health Challenges in Kenya: What New Research Evidence Shows”