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Putting Malaria In Pregnancy Back Where it Belongs – on the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Platform

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Malaria is a maternal and child health issue. Pregnant women are the most at risk for malaria and the likelihood of complications due to infection is much greater. Each year, approximately 50 million women living in … Continue reading “Putting Malaria In Pregnancy Back Where it Belongs – on the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Platform”

Maternal Health Commodities: Case Studies from Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda

Last month, the Maternal Health Task Force was invited by the Secretariat to the UN Commission for Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children to complete a landscaping of maternal health commodities in 6 countries. The MHTF, in collaboration with Global Health Visions, prepared a working document, titled UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities for … Continue reading “Maternal Health Commodities: Case Studies from Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda”

Live Webcast: Essential Obstetric & Newborn Care Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh

  The Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care begins tomorrow, May 4, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The three-day meeting plans to focus on postpartum hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia as well as other issues relating to maternal and newborn health. The meeting will bring together maternal and newborn health … Continue reading “Live Webcast: Essential Obstetric & Newborn Care Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh”

Attend the Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care

Next month, Bangladesh will host the Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care: Organized by the Government of Bangladesh, USAID’s flagship Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-supported Oxytocin Initiative, in collaboration with Women Deliver, VSI, FIGO, and ICM, this three-day … Continue reading “Attend the Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care”

USAID Technical Series: Prevention and Management of PPH and PE/E

Yesterday afternoon, a group of maternal health practitioners met at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. Dr. Jeffrey M. Smith of MCHIP gave a presentation on a report he co-authored called “Prevention and Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage and Pre-Eclampsia/Eclampsia” (PDF) as part of the USAID Maternal Health Technical Series. The paper reports on various … Continue reading “USAID Technical Series: Prevention and Management of PPH and PE/E”

A Pen That Can Save Lives: The MHTF Interviews the Inventors of a New Antenatal Screening Tool

The Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) had the opportunity to speak with Sean Monagle, member of the student team at Johns Hopkins University which recently won an international competition sponsored by ABC News and the Duke Global Health Institute. As the grand prizewinner, selected from more than 65 video entries from all over the world, … Continue reading “A Pen That Can Save Lives: The MHTF Interviews the Inventors of a New Antenatal Screening Tool”

Views from the Frontline of Maternal Healthcare: Over 2000 Practitioners Worldwide Make Their Voices Heard!

An online project, run by the Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute and Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Oxford, has recently sought the expert views of over 2000 healthcare providers in 91 countries so as to identify: a) barriers to providing best-practice care in maternal health and b) potential solutions using an … Continue reading “Views from the Frontline of Maternal Healthcare: Over 2000 Practitioners Worldwide Make Their Voices Heard!”

UBC/CFRI Project Receives $7M to Reduce Maternal, Fetal, and Newborn Deaths

The Child and Family Research Institute at the University of British Columbia received $7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research pre-eclampsia monitoring, prevention and treatment. The project hopes to develop new strategies in low and middle income countries and determine the impact of community based initiatives to reduce adverse maternal outcomes. … Continue reading “UBC/CFRI Project Receives $7M to Reduce Maternal, Fetal, and Newborn Deaths”

Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health – Day 1

On the sidelines of the political posturing and rhetoric at the Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health sponsored by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health underway at the prestigious Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi this weekend, there have been some illuminating discussions. The day before the event, there was a robust agenda of … Continue reading “Partners’ Forum on Women’s & Children’s Health – Day 1”