The Lancet Maternal Health Series published in September 2016 contains six papers highlighting the importance of improving access to high quality maternal health care for all women across the globe. In paper 5, “Next generation maternal health: External shocks and health-system innovations,” Kruk and colleagues discuss how social, political, environmental and demographic changes will influence the future of global maternal health and highlight key health system innovations with potential for large impact…read more
Tanzania: Saving mothers, babies with a result-driven health plan
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Posted onExploring the Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Health in Africa
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The African Journal of Reproductive Health recently launched a special issue on the implications of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Africa’s development. Despite notable achievements, sub-Saharan Africa did not meet many of the preceding Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The special edition explores the transition from MDGs to SDGs in the context of sexual, reproductive and maternal health…read more
Implementing a Clinical Quality Dashboard in Low-Resource Maternal and Child Health Hospital
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Clinical quality dashboards equip hospitals with a simple method for maintaining and monitoring clinical quality. Learn about the importance of measurement and evaluation in a health care setting, the process of creating a clinical quality dashboard in a low-resource maternity hospital and lessons learned during the creation, implementation and evaluation of the dashboard…read more
Ending preventable maternal mortality: Maternal Death Review and Surveillance (MDSR) system launched in Myanmar
Posted onEffectiveness of continuum of care—linking pre-pregnancy care and pregnancy care to improve neonatal and perinatal mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Posted onGlobal Leaders in Maternal and Newborn Health: Prof. Marleen Temmerman (Kenya)
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Professor Marleen Temmerman is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Aga Khan University (AKU) Hospital Nairobi and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health AKU – East Africa. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. She is the founding director of the International Centre of Reproductive Health (ICRH) at Ghent University with sister organizations in Kenya and Mozambique and a large global collaborative network. In 2007, Professor Temmerman was elected as a Senator in the Belgian Parliament where she was member of the Commission on Social Affairs and Chair of the Commission on Foreign Affairs. She is one of the penholders of the UN Global Strategy for Women’s, Children and Adolescents’ Health 2016-2030 and also serves as Senior WHO Advisor in Women, Adolescent and Child Health. She is a member of the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Post-2015 World and a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Global Health Diplomacy in Geneva…read more
Countdown to 2015 Becomes Countdown to 2030
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Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival (“Countdown”) was established in 2005 in response to The Lancet Child Survival Series with the goal of monitoring countries’ progress toward achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health) by 2015. Countdown is led by a team of multi-disciplinary leaders in the maternal and child health field, including researchers, governments, international agencies, professional organizations and other stakeholders. Now that the world has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Countdown has extended its work to monitor progress toward achieving SDG 3 (ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages) by 2030…read more