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A Year of Mentoring, a Lifetime of Impact: The Maternal Health Young Professionals Program in India

At the beginning of this year, the MHTF teamed up with St. John’s Medical College and Research Institute to launch the Maternal Health Young Professionals (MHYP) program; a year-long mentoring program for health professionals throughout India. This professional development program supported eight young health professionals from the private, public and practice sectors to enhance their … Continue reading “A Year of Mentoring, a Lifetime of Impact: The Maternal Health Young Professionals Program in India”

Implementation of a New WHO Antenatal Care Model in Thailand

This post is part of our “Continuum of Care” blog series hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force Background Theoretically antenatal care (ANC) should promote good pregnancy outcomes and reduce maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. In 1972 Archie Cochrane, the father of evidence-based medicine, highlighted the need to study ANC through randomized control trials when he … Continue reading “Implementation of a New WHO Antenatal Care Model in Thailand”

Manifesto for Maternal Health: Highlights From Jhpiego

Continuing the celebration of the one-year anniversary of the “Manifesto for Maternal Health,” this post showcases the work of Jhpiego to improve global maternal health. USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), led by Jhpiego, has enabled more than 1.5 million deliveries with a skilled birth attendant over five years (in accordance with … Continue reading “Manifesto for Maternal Health: Highlights From Jhpiego”

Setting Targets That Will Work

As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality targets? The MHTF is pleased to be hosting a blog series on post-2015 maternal mortality goal setting. Over the next several weeks, we will be featuring responses and reactions to proposed targets from around the … Continue reading “Setting Targets That Will Work”

Strengthening the Evidence on Postnatal Care

WHO has released new Recommendations on Postnatal Care of the Mother and Newborn. This publication replaces an edition from 1998, and provides guidelines on fundamental postnatal care (PNC) which are particularly applicable to resource-limited settings in low- and middle-income countries. The guidelines apply to home births as well as those in health facilities, and can … Continue reading “Strengthening the Evidence on Postnatal Care”

Tech4MH: Complementary Global Health Innovations Should Be Marketed, Sold and Shipped Together at Scale

Maternova is a social enterprise building out a fast track for commercialization of life-saving technologies for maternal, newborn and child health.  Why commercialization?  Isn’t the current trend innovation, invention and ideas?  Read on to find out why. Compared to a decade ago, or even five years ago, the global focus on maternal health is heartening, promising and long … Continue reading “Tech4MH: Complementary Global Health Innovations Should Be Marketed, Sold and Shipped Together at Scale”

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”

Maternal Sepsis and Ignaz Semmelweis, the Father of Infection Control

Today is the first ever World Sepsis Day (WSD)! World Sepsis Day is an initiative of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), involving organizations from sixty-nine countries, that aims to call attention to a neglected issue in global health. The overall goal of the Global Sepsis Alliance is to reduce the global incidence of sepsis by … Continue reading “Maternal Sepsis and Ignaz Semmelweis, the Father of Infection Control”

Improving Access to Maternal Health Commodities: A Systems Approach

This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Despite a decade of significant progress reducing maternal mortality rates, very few countries are on target to meet Millennium Development Goal #5a of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters by 2015. What is most alarming … Continue reading “Improving Access to Maternal Health Commodities: A Systems Approach”

Maternal Morbidities in the Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition

The June issue of the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition published by our colleagues at icddr,b focuses on the neglected issue of maternal morbidities. Introducing the issue, Mary Ellen Stanton and Neal Brandes of USAID write: This series of papers presents, for the first time in two geographic areas, a comprehensive snapshot of the … Continue reading “Maternal Morbidities in the Journal of Population, Health and Nutrition”