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By: Leonardo Chavane, National Senior Advisor for Mozambique, MCHIP & JHPIEGO This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. In Mozambique, malaria constitutes a primary cause of demand for…

This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Take Away Messages from Day Two, June 27th, 2012, at Malaria in Pregnancy: A Solvable Problem—Bringing the Maternal Health and Malaria Communities…

By: Gary Darmstadt and Wendy Prosser, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation This post was originally posted on Impatient Optimists. With almost 200 million people living in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, a state more populous than the entire country…

By: Elaine Roman, Malaria Team Leader, MCHIP This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, malaria in pregnancy (MIP) programs are at a crossroads. While many…

By: Dr. Sylla Thiam, Malaria Programme Lead, AMREF This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Pregnant women living in malaria-endemic regions are particularly vulnerable to the disease because…

Mother’s Day 2012 provides a good occasion to celebrate accomplishments in the field over the past year. The Maternal Health Task Force shares ten exciting developments. The State of the World’s Midwives report provided the first comprehensive…

By: Shafia Rashid, Family Care International There is ample evidence illustrating that the health of a woman and her newborn baby are intimately connected. We know that: most maternal and newborn deaths are caused by the mother’s poor health before…

In an effort to foster the next generation of global health researchers and strengthen global health research programs at U.S. and foreign institutions, Fogarty International Center along with partners at the National Institutes of Health have…

On March 13, DFID announced their Health Research Competition for the Development of New Technologies to Impact Diseases of Poverty. The competition will fund research projects on a number of global health issues–including malaria in pregnancy,…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TZo_7ITSKs   Our colleagues at PSI recently shared a blog post about a new program in Burundi that is working to increase access to sexual and reproductive health information for youth through radio: In a…