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By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The MHTF is packing up and heading to Malaysia for the Women Deliver conference May 28-30. Women Deliver conferences always provides a unique forum for advocates, donors, researchers, programmers and policy makers to come…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative The Lancet has published a special issue, focused on maternal health, that comes just before the third Women Deliver conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur,…

By: Samantha Lattof, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Despite encouraging progress, coverage of malaria control efforts among pregnant women remains low. Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) continues to be a…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The next event in the 2012-2013 Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health series cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Global Health Initiative, UNFPA, and the MHTF, the Wilson Center will host a…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, April 5, marks the beginning of the 1000 day countdown to the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon sums up the current situation as follows: In the last…

By: Kathleen McDonald, Senior Program Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative The final plenary of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 (GMHC2013) in Arusha, Tanzania struck a nerve. The expert panel presented evidence of…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant On April 4, the Woodrow Wilson Center is hosting “Maternal Health in India: Emerging Priorities,” in three locations: New Delhi, Washington, DC and Boston, as well as online, via a live webcast from 9:00-11:00 AM (EDT). …

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant The MHTF and the journal PLOS currently have a call for papers open for year two of maternal health collection, with the theme “maternal health is women’s health,”and submissions received by April 1 will…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, The Lancet published “A Manifesto for Maternal Health post-2015,” which was co-authored by MHTF Director Ana Langer, along with Lancet Editor Richard Horton, and Guerino Chalamilla, the Executive Director of…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Last week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released, Financing for Global Health: The End of the Golden Era? its fourth annual report analyzing trends in Development Assistance for Health (DAH) from…