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PBS is in the midst of publishing a ten-part blog series exploring the connections between between mobile technology and health in Africa. In its latest post, the series highlights the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action’s (MAMA) Ask MAMA Mobi, which … Continue reading
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Tagged: Africa, commodities, community health workers, community-based interventions, health systems, health workers, John Snow International, Malawi, maternal health, mhealth, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, PBS, South Africa, Village Reach
Posted in: New Ideas and Innovations, News
On October 9th, 2012, PLoS Medicine published a paper, Serious and Life-Threatening Pregnancy-Related Infections: Opportunities to Reduce the Global Burden, that describes the global burden of pregnancy-related infections (including and beyond puerperal sepsis) and highlights opportunities for screening and treatment in low … Continue reading
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Tagged: abortion, Africa, Asia, infection, Latin America, maternal morbidity, neonatal mortality, PLOS Medicine, puerperal sepsis, sepsis, urinary tract infection, WHO
Posted in: Evidence
This post is part of a blog series on maternal health commodities. To view the entire series, click here. Written by: Kelley Boldt Kelley Boldt is a young professional supporting PATH’s advocacy efforts to expand access for maternal health medicines … Continue reading
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Tagged: Africa, Ghana, Kelley Boldt, Kintampo Municipal Hospital, maternal death, Maternal Health Commodities Blog Series, maternal mortality, PATH, United Nations Commission on Lifesaving Commodities for Women and Children, United Nations Every Woman Every Child Initiative, young professionals
Posted in: Commentary, Policy and Advocacy
Guest post contributed by our colleagues at the Countdown to 2015 initiative Since 1990, annual maternal deaths have declined by almost one half and the deaths of young children have declined from 12 million to 7.6 million in … Continue reading
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Tagged: Africa, Aga Khan University, Ban Ki Moon, Bangladesh, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Botswana, Burundi, child health, Countdown to 2015, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Every Woman Every Child, Family Care International, family planning, Ghana, Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, Harvard University, Hillary Clinton, Johns Hopkins University, Lao, LBW, Liberia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Madagascar, Malawi, maternal health, maternal stature, MDG4, MDG5, Nepal, Nigeria, nutrition, PMNCH, preterm birth, Rwanda, Save the Children, South Asia, Tanzania, UNFPA, UNICEF, University of Pelotas, Vietnam, World Health Organization, Zulfiqar Bhutta
Posted in: Announcements, Evidence, News, Policy and Advocacy, Resources
On March 13, DFID announced their Health Research Competition for the Development of New Technologies to Impact Diseases of Poverty. The competition will fund research projects on a number of global health issues–including malaria in pregnancy, reproductive health commodities, family … Continue reading
Written by: Joy Lawn, Director Global Evidence and Policy, Saving Newborn Lives-Save the Children-US The following post originally appeared on the Healthy Newborn Network blog. It is reposted here with permission If you were born today in Africa, … Continue reading
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Tagged: Africa, Healthy Newborn Network, Joy Lawn, neonatal mortality, newborn survival, Save the Children
Posted in: News
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
Posted in: Commentary, Conferences and Meetings
NEW YORK, July 22—The Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth announced today that it has awarded eight new grants supporting innovative maternal health projects across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The projects, which will be carried out by local organizations … Continue reading
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Tagged: Africa, Anuradhapura District, Asia, Bangladesh, CEDPA, cell phones, Centre for Development and Population Activities, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, CIESAS, Department of Community Medicine at Rajarata University, economic impact, emergency obstetric care, EngenderHealth, Future Generations, grants, HIV/AIDS, ICDDRB, Ifakara Health Institute, India, innovations, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Kenya, Latin America, MaiMwana, Malawi, Maternal Death Review, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, Mchinji District Hospital, MDR, mentor mothers, Mexico, MHTF, Ministry of Health's Advanced Life Support for Obstetrics Program (ALSO), mothers2mothers, National AIDS Control Programme, National Health Policy Administration, National Rural Health Mission, newborn mortality, Oaxaca, Peru, Peruvian Ministry of Health, PMTCT, Policy and Advocacy, pregnancy complications, Rajasthan, referral, South Africa, Sri Lanka, subawards, Tanzania, telecommunications, text messages, Tim Thomas, verbal autopsy
Posted in: Announcements, News, Policy and Advocacy
Amy Boldosser, a member of Family Care International’s global advocacy team, was in Toronto from Thursday through Sunday, for the G8 and G20 summits. Amy’s coverage of the summits is being posted on Blog 4 Global Health, RH Reality Check, and … Continue reading
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Tagged: abortion, accountability, Africa, African Union, Algeria, Bono, child death, child health, continuum of care, Ethiopia, family planning, G20, G8, Gates Foundation, Global Fund, Harper, health education, health systems strengthening, health workers, hemorrhage, HIV/AIDS, infant death, joint action plan, Malawi, maternal and child health, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG4, MDG5, mobile phones, Muskoka Initiative, Netherlands, New Ideas and Innovations, New Zealand, newborn health, Nigeria, Norway, nutrition, ONE, Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health, prenatal care, protesters, public health, reproductive health, Secretary General of the UN, Senegal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, task-shifting, Toronto, U2, United Nations Foundation, universal access, unsafe abortion, youth summit
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What about an ounce of cure…? Treating postpartum hemorrhage with misoprostol in low-resource settings
Posted on April 19, 2013 by Sarah Blake
Guest post by Beverly Winikoff President of Gynuity Health Projects and Ann Starrs,President of Family Care International cross-posted from The FCI Blog. While support for the use of misoprostol to prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) has been growing steadily, governments, donors, and implementing agencies have not … Continue reading →