Monthly Archives: September 2010
Written By: Lucy Yeatman, Ruder Finn, UK Make Women Matter www.makewomenmatter.org is a new campaign from Marie Stopes International, which highlights the need to improve the lives of women around the world and to put an end to preventable deaths … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bangladesh, Bwindi's Babies, childbirth, Congo, Make Women Matter, Marie Stopes, MDG 5, Millennium Development Goals 5, pregnancy, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda
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The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Our hope is that, together, these comments will serve as a springboard for discussion and provide momentum towards MDG5. Written by: Stephanie Hedean, … Continue reading
Attached here, you will find USAID’s Request for Application (RFA) for implementation research that will document and test an intervention approach to significantly reduce the leading manifestations of disrespect and abuse of women during labor and delivery in facilities in developing countries … Continue reading
The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Our hope is that, together, these comments will serve as a springboard for discussion and provide momentum towards MDG5. Written by: Saumya Ramarao, … Continue reading
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Tagged: beyond mortality data, cell phones, data collection, digital data collection, health systems, imagination, maternal mortality declline, MDG5, measurement, measuring morbidity, medical interventions, MMR data, number of deaths, PDAs, quality of services, recording data, Saumya RamaRao, The Population Council, UN estimates
Posted in: Commentary, Evidence, News
Written By: Maria M. Pawlowska, Cambridge Gates Scholar Here’s an interesting, if somewhat depressing, factoid – a search on Google news for “delhi, maternal, conference” turns up 6 stories. Five of which have been published on reproductive health and feminist … Continue reading
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Tagged: AIDs, Cambridge Gates Scholar, childbirth, global health, Googling, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, maternal mortality, Melinda Gates, New Delhi, New York Times, Obama, reproductive rights, The Lancet, Vienna
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This week we’re reminded repeatedly of the Millennium Development Goals made ten years ago—four and six years before Facebook and Twitter existed, respectively. I doubt those 189 world leaders envisioned digital and social media as methods to achieving those goals, … Continue reading
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Tagged: 92Y, digital media, Facebook, Mashable, Millennium Development Goals, Social Good Summit, social media, Twitter, UN Foundation
Posted in: Commentary
The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Our hope is that, together, these comments will serve as a springboard for discussion and provide momentum towards MDG5. Written by Kate … Continue reading
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Tagged: Kate Dilley, maternal mortality, MDG 5, Reproductive Health Care, The World Bank, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO
Posted in: Announcements, News
This is a cross-posting. The post was first published on the The Huffington Post Written By: Pam Barnes, President, EngenderHealth This week, the world’s leaders will descend on New York City for a perfect storm of high-level events, including the … Continue reading
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Tagged: Ban Ki Moon, childbirth, Clinton Global Initiative, Global Maternal Health Conference 2010, Global Strategy for Women, hyptertensive disorders, infections, maternal death, MDG 5, misoprostol, New York City, Pam Barnes, postpartum hemorrhage, United Nations, unsafe abortions
Posted in: News, Policy and Advocacy
It’s time for reflection on the first Global Maternal Health Conference held in Delhi 30th August to 1st September. The conference organizers are finishing uploading all the presentations, videos and photos; wrapping up the finances; and taking stock of how … Continue reading
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Healthy skepticism needed regarding maternal mortality rates
Posted on September 27, 2010 by rajimohanam
The MHTF is soliciting reactions from the maternal health community to the newly released UN MMR data. Our hope is that, together, these comments will serve as a springboard for discussion and provide momentum towards MDG5. Written by: Sarah Becklake, … Continue reading →