Monthly Archives: August 2010
By Sara Stratton, IntraHealth International This post was originally published on IntraHealth’s Global Health Blog. To the business world, it’s location, location, location. Here in Delhi, though, at the Global Maternal Health Conference, the mantra is context, context, context. There … Continue reading
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Tagged: context, Delhi, family planning, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, institution deliveries, Intrahealth, IntraHealth Internationa, local context, maternal health, MNCH, Sara Stratton, SEWA Rural, traditional birth attendants, trained birth attendants
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Written by Janna Oberdorf, Women Deliver These are two things I’m very proud of. I’m proud to be young (or at least young-ish) and passionate about women and mothers. I’m proud that when I see images of women giving birth … Continue reading
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Tagged: Ashoka, birth kits, Brazil, Carolina Araujo Damasio Santos, Egwaoje Ifeyinwa Madu, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, Hellen Kotlolo, Janna Oberdorf, maternal health, music therapy, SisterFriends, SMS, text messages, The Art of Being Born, Women Deliver, Young Champions of Maternal Health, Zubaida Bai
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Written by Calyn Ostrowski, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars Four days ago a young woman died giving birth in a bustling marketplace in New Delhi. Just steps away from Parliament, this woman was left to die and no emergency care … Continue reading
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Tagged: Aga Khan University, Delhi, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, Hindustan Times, IMMPACT, India, male involvement, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, MNCH, newborn health, plenary session, reproductive health, Wendy J. Graham, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Zulfiqar Bhutta
Posted in: Commentary, Conferences and Meetings, Evidence, News
Written by Janna Oberdorf, Women Deliver Clean Birth Kits. It seems like a no-brainer. And, as one audience member at the Global Maternal Health Conference said, “There’s no doubt these would work.” But, there is doubt, as I learned at … Continue reading
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Tagged: Ann Blanc, Bilal Avan, Birth Kit Working Group, CBK, clean birth kits, EngenderHealth, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, Vanora Hundley, Wendy J. Graham
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Written by Maria M. Pawlowska, Cambridge University Gates Scholar The Global Maternal Health Conference 2010 is underway! Unfortunately, I’m not there in New Delhi to witness it all first-hand but the organisers are kindly live streaming some of the sessions … Continue reading
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Tagged: Africa, AMDD, Asia, Delhi, family planning, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, health workers, Helen de Pinho, human resources, India, Jeffrey Smith, Jhpiego, maternal deaths, maternal health, maternal mortality, midwife, midwives, misoprostol, Ndola Prata, non-physician clinicians (NPCs), postpartum hemorrhage, quality of care, Strengthening access to maternal health, task-shifting, training, White Ribbon Alliance
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Written by Kate Mitchell, Maternal Health Task Force The opening plenary, Global progress on maternal health: the numbers and their implications, of the Global Maternal Health Conference 2010 in Delhi focused on global progress on maternal health and explored recent … Continue reading
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Tagged: context, data, Delhi, EngenderHealth, estimates, failure, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, HIV/AIDS, IHME, IMMPACT, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, inter-agency approach, Lale Say, Lancet report, local researchers, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, measurement, methodology, MHTF, numbers, Population Council, Rafael Lozano, Saroj Pachauri, South and East Asia, statistical analysis, UNFPA, UNICEF, United Nations, unity, Wendy J. Graham, WHO, World Bank, World Health Organization
Posted in: Commentary, Conferences and Meetings, Evidence, News
Written by Calyn Ostrowski, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars “We do not need new legislation… we need affordable, effective, and scalable solutions,” said Shn Gulamnabi Azad, Minister of Health, India, at the opening ceremony of the first-ever Global Maternal Health … Continue reading
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Tagged: adolescent girls, Anil Paranjap, Calyn Ostrowski, CEDPA, data, early marriage, family planning, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, India, Indian Institute of Health Management, Maternal Health Dialogue Series, maternal mortality, Minister of Health, New Delhi, Oman Medical College, Public Health Institute of India, reproductive health, Saram Anwar, Shn Gulamnabi Azad, solutions, Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, UDAAN project, UNFPA, Women Deliver, Woodrow Wison International Center for Scholars, Young Champions of Maternal Health, young people
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Written by Janna Oberdorf, Women Deliver At today’s session on “Policy and advocacy tools,” panelists presented on web-based and new media options for disseminating maternal health research and messages. Though online technology is an often-untapped resource for the maternal health … Continue reading
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Tagged: advocacy, Atlas of Birth, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, Janna Oberdorf, Koki Agarwal, LiST, Lives Saved Tool, M4ID, Mari Tikkanen, maternal health messages, MCHIP, new media, online technology, Policy and Advocacy, Sarah Neal, University of Southampton, White Ribbon Alliance, Women Deliver
Posted in: Commentary, Conferences and Meetings, Policy and Advocacy
Written by Saumya RamaRao, Population Council It is 6pm in New Delhi on August 30, 2010 and I’ve just come back to my hotel room after attending a whole day of sessions at the Global Maternal Health Conference. As I … Continue reading
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Tagged: academics, advocacy, advocates, data, elected government officials, evaluation, facility deliveries, failure, fault finding, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, maternal deaths, maternal health, MDG5, medical abortion, mifepristone, misoprostol, monitoring progress, New Delhi, numbers, policy makers, Population Council, quality of care, record keeping, role of abortion, safe abortion, Saumya RamaRao, stakeholders, Wendy Graham, youth
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Global Maternal Health Conference 2010: Day One Take-Aways from the Young Champions
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Christopher
Written by Lorraine Thompson, Ashoka On August 30 at 8:00am, the air was already hot and sticky as Ashoka’s Young Champions and Changemakers boarded an air-conditioned bus. After careening across Delhi’s bumpy streets, the young social entrepreneurs stepped into … Continue reading →