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Antenatal care (ANC) is a crucial component of ensuring optimal health outcomes for mothers and newborns. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that women attend at least four ANC visits during pregnancy starting in the first trimester. ANC…

Recognition that pregnant and postpartum women living in resource-constrained low- and lower-middle income countries can experience mental health problems is growing. However, a double disparity remains. First, prevalence of mental health problems among…

Ten more new jobs and one conference scholarship to explore as you navigate your way through a career committed to maternal health. Jobs & fellowships Program Manager: D-tree International, Zanzibar Advisor for Private Sector…

In celebration of the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health collaboration we take a look back through the collections and highlight some of the most influential and interesting articles included in the collections. In November 2011, the Maternal Health Task Force…

On 2 May 2013, the Wilson Center Maternal Health Initiative convened this dialogue, in partnership with the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). “Today we have a golden opportunity to use…

By: Katie Millar, Technical Writer, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health This post is part two of two in our family planning feature this week Building on the emphasis at the PMNCH Partners’ Forum this week of…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant As world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly to review progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and considers the framework that will follow the 2015 MDG deadline, the Partnership for Maternal,…

By: Jocalyn Clark, Senior Magazine Editor, PLOS Medicine This blog post is cross-posted from Speaking of Medicine. I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with…

Guest post contributed by our colleagues at the Countdown to 2015 initiative Since 1990, annual maternal deaths have declined by almost one half and the deaths of young children have declined from 12 million to 7.6 million in 2010. Some of the…

This week on the MHTF blog: Maternal health in a middle income country Isaiah Ndong, VP for Programs at EngenderHealth, discussed obstetric fistula We celebrated the International Day of the Midwife The Young Champions of Maternal Health…