Quality of Care News

• A larger role for midwives could improve deficient U.S. care for mothers and babies

  ProPublica | February 2018

• Urgent solutions needed as Kenya records alarming newborn mortality rate

  The Star | February 2018

• Serena Williams: What my life-threatening experience taught me about giving birth

  CNN | February 2018

• WHO: Alarming spike in unneeded medical interventions for healthy pregnant women

  VOA | February 2018

• Individualized, supportive care key to positive childbirth experience, says WHO

  World Health Organization | February 2018

• Do not intervene to speed up birth unless real risks involved, advises WHO

  The Guardian | February 2018

• Humanising birth: Does the language we use matter?

  BMJ Opinion | February 2018

• New force to fight for mothers’ care

  The Telegraph | February 2018

• Health experts highlight the key challenges for improving maternal, neonatal and infant mortality

  Aid & International Development Forum | February 2018

• Africa fighting maternal, neonatal mortality with community-level interventions, technology

  Down to Earth | February 2018

• Canada is lagging on perinatal depression screening, advocates say

  HuffPost | January 2018

• Countdown 2030: Tracking progress towards universal coverage for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health

  UN Children's Fund | January 2018

• Cesarean delivery can pose long-term risks to mother and child

  New York Times | January 2018

• Improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health: a pre-post evaluation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist in Bangladesh

  Healthy Newborn Network | January 2018

• Connecting the dots: Designing a more connected journey for pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to access quality care at time of birth

  Healthy Newborn Network | January 2018

• Evidence grows that normal childbirth takes longer than we thought

  Science News | January 2018

• Now, safer deliveries for women in Tajikistan

  IntraHealth | January 2018

• Government charged to be more accountable on reduction of maternal mortality

  Independent Nigeria | January 2018

• Why are so many mothers dying in Texas?

  TIME | January 2018

• Why maternal mortality is not declining

  The Daily Star | January 2018

• “It can be done”: Address Malata’s dream for safe motherhood in Malawi

  New Security Beat | January 2018

• Black mothers are dying: The toll of racism on maternal health

  STAT | January 2018

• One smart upstream investment

  POLITICO | January 2018

• The mothers and midwives behind South Sudan’s maternal mortality crisis

  News Deeply | January 2018

• Analysis: The devastating stigma of fistula and the surgery that can help

  PBS NewsHour | January 2018

• The 30th anniversary of the Safe Motherhood Initiative

  New Security Beat | January 2018

• National initiative aimed at reducing maternal deaths shows early signs of improvement in severe maternal morbidity

  American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | January 2018

• How hospitals are failing black mothers

  ProPublica | December 2017

• The elephant in the delivery room: How doctor bias hurts black and brown mothers

  THINK | December 2017

• Pregnant women in UP are dying, failed by a system that relies on overworked health workers

  Scroll | December 2017