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By: Faatimaa Ahmadi, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Faatimaa Ahmadi, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. She will be blogging…

By: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Yesterday we blogged about the robust advocacy movement underway to convince the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to broaden their funding portfolio with MNCH programming. A letter endorsed by an unusual…

Written by: Tim Thomas, Senior Advisor, MHTF Over the past 12-18 months, a dedicated group of advocates have been pushing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to expand its mandate to include maternal, newborn and child health programs. (The…

This week on the MHTF blog: The Department of Community Medicine at Rajarata University wrote about productivity costs and maternal health CEDPA updated us on their project to integrate HIV/AIDS into maternal health programs Young Champion…

By: Hellen Kotlolo, Young Champion of Maternal Health This blog post was contributed by Hellen Kotlolo, one of the fifteen Young Champions of Maternal Health chosen by Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth. She will be blogging…

Please join the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for the final event of the 2009-2010 series Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health.   …

By: Mariko Rasmussen, Program Assistant, Women Deliver This post was originally published on Women Deliver’s blog. Reposted with permission. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula. The state faces major challenges in…

Recently on the MHTF blog: Raji Mohanam wrote about her time at the mHealth Summit Julianne Parker wrote about her work in Brazil We informed you about our other blog, GlobalMama Sara Al Lamki described a night at a “make-shift…

Just in time for the mHealth Summit, The Lancet published an evaluation of an SMS initiative (gated) to improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) at clinics in Kenya. Patients were randomly assigned to groups, one of which would receive text messages from…

By: Raji Mohanam, The three-day mHealth Summit began today in Washington DC, with over 2,000 experts from both public and private sectors coming together to discuss how innovative mobile technologies are being used to improve health and health systems…