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Creating an Evidence Base for the Promotion of Respectful Maternity Care
Disrespectful and abusive behaviors during childbirth are fundamental violations of women’s human rights. Additionally, these behaviors are increasingly being recognized for their role in deterring women from seeking skilled birth attendance at…
Manifesto for Maternal Health
This manifesto sets out the maternal health agenda for the global community urging them to build on past successes not only to eliminate maternal mortality but also contain maternal morbidity.The key is time bound implementation of this agenda.
Prevention and Elimination of Disrespect and Abuse During Childbirth
Download this statement in other languages on the World Health Organization website.
Jorge Hermida - Promising Approaches to Integration of Care
At the Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health Care technical meeting, Jorge Hermida spoke on his experiences with integrated quality improvement and scaling up these approaches system-wide in settings with high institutional delivery rates in Latin…
What can Integrated Care Look Like? Areas for Exploration
Mary Mwanyika Sando moderated this panel discussion at the Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health Care technical meeting. This presentation provided an overview of the critical windows/opportunities where effectively integrated maternal and newborn…
Integration in Pursuit of Quality and Equity
At the Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health Care technical meeting, Mariam Cleason presented on quality improvement in MNH and how to integrate without negatively impacting quality of care.
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