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On October 29th, the New York Times reported that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently provided a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a Massachusetts nonprofit, to identify strategies for helping pregnant women in Ghana to…

The Maternal Health Task Force, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Global Health Initiative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and PATH are delighted to invite you to an upcoming dialogue! The dialogue, Strategic Steps for…

In honor of International Day of the Girl Child, Ann K. Blanc, Vice President and Director of Poverty, Gender and Youth at the Population Council and Senior Advisor to the Maternal Health Task Force, shared a blog post on the Huffington…

The Maternal Health Task Force is delighted to participate in an exciting event this afternoon , Saving Lives that Give Life: Preventing Maternal Deaths and Advancing Women’s Health!   The event will be moderated by Lisa Belkin, Senior…

By: Jill Sheffield, Founder and President, Women Deliver This post was originally posted on Women Deliver.  While deep into the planning stages of Women Deliver 2010, my phone rang and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office was on…

A special message from our friends organizing the maternal and newborn health (MNH) track at the upcoming Women Deliver Conference: The third Global Women Deliver Conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on May 28-30th 2013, with an…

By: Jill Sheffield, Founder and President, Women Deliver This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Recently, a new study by the Guttmacher Institute and the United Nations Population Fund…

In an article titled Women Need More Health in AIDS Battle, Experts Say, the Huffington Post reports on recent conversations at the International AIDS Conference about the need for more focused efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS among women, with…

In a piece titled, Global AIDS conference rally calls for cheaper medicines, more funding, the Washington Post reports on the first day of the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. From the piece: As in all these meetings, the opening…

Leading up to the19th International AIDS Conference that will take place in Washington D.C. from 22-27 July 2012, UNAIDS released a new report, Together We Will End AIDS, yesterday showing that “as international funding flattens, more countries are…