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As part of a maternal health technology assessment project, PATH created an Excel-based Strategic Prioritization Tool (SPT) to assess and prioritize nearly 40 technologies that address postpartum hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia/eclampsia for their potential…

Released four times a year, the MHTF Quarterly highlights current and emerging critical issues in the maternal health field. Sign up for our mailing list MHTF Quarterly Archive June 2018: Midwives–Advancing Coverage and Quality of…

By: Natalie Ramm, Communications Coordinator, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative Continuing the celebration of the one-year anniversary of the “Manifesto for Maternal Health,” this post showcases the work of Jhpiego to improve…

By: Aparajita Gogoi, Executive Director, CEDPA India and National Coordinator, White Ribbon Alliance India As we approach the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, what does the future hold for international maternal mortality targets? The…

By: Annie Kearns, Project Manager, Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative WHO has released new Recommendations on Postnatal Care of the Mother and Newborn. This publication replaces an edition from 1998, and provides guidelines on…

By: Meg Wirth, Founder, Maternova Maternova is a social enterprise building out a fast track for commercialization of life-saving technologies for maternal, newborn and child health.  Why commercialization?  Isn’t the current trend…

By: Kate Mitchell, Manager of the MHTF Knowledge Management System, Women and Health Initiative Each year, the Maternal Health Task Force and PLOS Medicine work together to organize an open access collection of research and commentary on maternal health.…

Today is the first ever World Sepsis Day (WSD)! World Sepsis Day is an initiative of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), involving organizations from sixty-nine countries, that aims to call attention to a neglected issue in global health. The overall…

By: Beth Yeager, Principal Technical Advisor, Management Sciences for Health & Chair, Maternal Health Supplies Caucus, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire…

The June issue of the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition published by our colleagues at icddr,b focuses on the neglected issue of maternal morbidities. Introducing the issue, Mary Ellen Stanton and Neal Brandes of USAID write: This series…