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This week on the MHTF blog: Raji Mohanam interviewed a member of the “Be the Change: Save a Life Maternal Health Challenge” winning team UNFPA published The State of the World’s Midwifery Report What answers does China hold for maternal health? Reader responses to our post on TBAs What are potential impacts of pay-for-performance schemes? … Continue reading “Weekend Reading”
The following originally appeared on Kate’s blog, Maternal Mortality Daily, and is reposted here with permission. This is the third post in a series on maternal health in rural Jharkhand, India. The first and second posts are available on the MHTF blog. At 4am, Radha’s body became completely stiff. Then came the convulsions. Radha, a … Continue reading “Radha’s Story: Unforeseen Consequences of Cash Payments for Institutional Deliveries”
The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission Imagine you are eight months pregnant with your third child with two other young children at home. The ground starts moving violently beneath you and panic sets in. You flee your collapsing home with your children. The aftershocks … Continue reading “Survival of Women and Newborns in Crisis”
Young Champion Hellen Koltolo recently appeared on health-e’s TV unit in South Africa to discuss her work in preventing mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT). During the segment, she discussed how mothers can transmit HIV/AIDS to their children, methods to reduce the likelihood of transmission and the stigma attached to HIV/AIDS in South Africa: … Continue reading “Hellen Kotlolo Discusses PMTCT”
On June 3rd, 2010, I posted a guest blog post from Dr. Fatouma Mabeye of WAHA International on a recent meeting in Benin of midwives from West and Central Africa. Dr. Mabeye explained that the goal of the meeting was to explore the role of midwives in preventing and treating fistula—and to discuss the use … Continue reading “The Conversation Continues: Catheters as an Important Component of Fistula Prevention and Treatment”
An article, More Condoms, Contraceptives, Midwives, and Educated Girls Could Prevent Most Maternal Deaths―New World Bank Reproductive Action Plan, on the World Bank News and Broadcast page outlines the rationale and the details of the new plan. The plan will focus on increasing access to contraception, attendance of antenatal services, knowledge of preventive measures and … Continue reading “The World Bank Announces New Five-Year Reproductive Health Action Plan”
Eight innovative ideas for transforming the field of maternal health are finalists in the online competition “Healthy Mothers, Strong World: The Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health,” sponsored by The Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth and Ashoka’s Changemakers. They were chosen by a panel of expert judges as entrepreneurial solutions from local, citizen … Continue reading “Vote Now: Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health”
