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Like many countries, Zambia struggled for years to improve skilled birth attendance; Recently, however, some rural districts have performed much better. Zambia has moved to make people-centered health services a reality by using maternal health as an…

Last week, experts in maternal health convened at the Wilson Center to mark the recent launch of The Lancet Maternal Health Series, discuss its implications and brainstorm how to translate findings into improvements for global maternal newborn health. …

A team based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has studied the critical steps that were taken to help scale up the Saving Newborn Lives neonatal sepsis management innovation, as part of Ethiopia’s flagship Community Based Newborn…

We are excited to announce the upcoming dialogue, How Zika Is Shaping the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Agenda, on Tuesday, April 12 in Washington, DC. The Zika outbreak presents an opportunity to set the conversation on access, quality, and…

By: Tricia Bolender, Faculty and Senior Improvement Advisor, Institute for Healthcare Improvement This month on October 10th, we celebrate Mental Health Day. Indeed, there is much to celebrate, from the development of the WHO’s Comprehensive Mental…

The majority of developing countries have a high prevalence of maternal depression ranging from18-25%. Countries with a high prevalence of maternal depression need a universal approach to maternal psychosocial well-being during pregnancy and in the…

"[My patient] had waited 41 years for treatment. It took me just 20 minutes and 1 stitch to give back her dignity," said Shershah Syed. Shershah, a leading obstetrician-gynaecologist in Pakistan, has long been a visionary campaigner for women’s rights,…

Until recently, the health system in Ghana had been quite silent on maternal depression, which had a number of consequences on maternal and newborn outcomes. To address this need, The National Catholic Health Service, with funds from Grand Challenge…

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) programmes frequently depend upon the capacity of the primary caregiver, more often than not, the mother, to provide optimal care for her young child. Increasingly, early childhood strategies recognize the…

By: Matthew Chico, Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Women gathering in a community meeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo: Martine Perret/UN In sub-Saharan Africa, 10,000 women and 200,000 children under the age of one die…