Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Maternal Health Task Force has been working with the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to create a series of events on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. Over the next year, … Continue reading

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photo by Hanna Ingber Win/ Maianbessa Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post’s World Editor, wrote a five- part series about her recent trip to Ethiopia to visit UNFPA’s maternal health programs. These articles describe a woman’s journey to find a … Continue reading

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We are so excited to have Sarah Blake and Kate Mitchell on board as our new Knowledge Management Interns. We have already felt their contributions speeding up the pace of our work! Sarah holds a M.Sc. in Gender, Development and … Continue reading

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The Bulletin of the WHO recently published electronically a paper showing that the maternal mortality ratio in Mongolia declined substantially between 1992 and 2007, after the introduction of a comprehensive maternal health strategy. The MMR decreased almost 10 deaths per … Continue reading

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