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Currently, there is a large disconnect between pregnant adolescents and available medical services in East Africa. Messaging to adolescent mothers is largely ineffective and emphasizes that the young women are ‘too young’ to be mothers or to…

“You could have been one of those many girls married off at 13,” said Yeabsira’s father when she was a child. Since then, Yeabsira has been passionate about improving women’s health in Ethiopia. She plans to create an innovative…

After Sara Al-Lamki’s parents fled Zanzibar during the revolution, in which Sara’s grandfather was killed, they became refugees in Ireland and Egypt for years before returning to their ancestral Oman. These family experiences made an…

Hellen admits that she fell into the nursing profession largely by chance. However, her passion for helping those less fortunate and her ability to “think big” has led her to not only become the dedicated maternal health professional that she…

A medical professional in Pakistan, Faisal is changing the maternal health field in his country by tapping into a poorly-utilized resource: medical interns. He believes the chronic shortage of health workers in rural Pakistan could be lessened…

By: Jennifer Horsley, Editorial Project Coordinator, PLOS Collections This blog post was originally posted on Speaking of Medicine, the blog of the PLOS Medical Journals’ Community. The post highlights the June 2nd, 2014 launch of Year 3 of the…

In addition to a lack of access to quality prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services at the clinic level, community-level factors such as stigma; adverse gender dynamics; low support for HIV testing, antenatal care, and skilled…

News Research Get the latest news and research on maternal health from around the world. The MHTF team pulls the most current updates from peer-reviewed journals, news outlets and global health websites together in one location for you. …

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center Washington, DC See the video of the event >> Read the Storify social media archive >> Since 2009, the Wilson Center’s Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health series, one of the few forums dedicated to…

Meeting Report Agenda Participant List Background Brief Reading List Presentations Videos Despite advances in maternal health, ensuring women have skilled care during delivery remains a challenge. While rates of antenatal…