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The MHTF is packing up and heading to Malaysia for the Women Deliver conference May 28-30. Women Deliver conferences always provides a unique forum for advocates, donors, researchers, programmers and policy makers to come together address a range of issues … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Countdown to 2015, family planning, maternal health, obstetric fistula, post-MDG, reproductive health, UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, UNFPA, WHO, Women Deliver, World Health Assembly
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This year, as the family health team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation undertakes its annual strategy review, its members are contributing to the Family Health Check Up blog series. In the post introducing the series, Gary Darmstadt, the Foundation’s Director … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, child health, family planning, health knowledge, health systems, health workers, maternal health, newborn health, preterm birth, quality of care
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The International Day of the Midwife was marked yesterday, May 5. The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) hosted the Virtual Day of the Midwife, a 24-hour series of presentations to mark the date. Midwives, advocates, researchers and others spoke on … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, family planning, frontline health workers, Frontline Health Workers coalition, health systems, health workers, ICM, IDM, International Confederation of Midwives, International Day of the Midwife, maternal health, midwifery, midwives, respectful care, respectful maternity care, UNFPA
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The 2013 International Conference on Family Planning, which will be held from 12-15 November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is accepting submissions of abstracts. However, the deadline is quickly approaching. From the call for abstracts: The organizers encourage abstracts on cutting-edge … Continue reading
Today, April 5, marks the beginning of the 1000 day countdown to the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon sums up the current situation as follows: In the last dozen years, 600 million … Continue reading
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Tagged: Ban Ki Moon, family planning, gender, maternal health, MDG 5, MDGs, post-MDG, UN Foundation, UNFPA
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The MHTF and the journal PLOS currently have a call for papers open for year two of maternal health collection, with the theme “maternal health is women’s health,” and submissions received by April 1 will have the best chance of being published. … Continue reading
In “Roots of Iraq’s maternal and child health crisis run deep” published today in The Lancet as part of a special edition on health in Iraq ten years after the U.S. invasion, Paul C. Webster synthesizes evidence on the lasting … Continue reading
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Tagged: child health, conflict settings, displacement, family planning, health systems, health workers, Iraq, maternal health, maternal mortality
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Last Thursday, a special session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was held to draw attention to the issue of child marriage, and the experiences of the 39,000 girls who are married before the age of … Continue reading
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Tagged: adolescent girls, Bangladesh, child marriage, cultural factors, economic development, Every Woman Every Child, family planning, gender, gender based violence, girls not brides, girls' education, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Joyce Banda, Malawi, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, obstetric fistula, PMNCH, reproductive health, South Asia, South Sudan, sub-Saharan Africa, UN Commission on the Status of Women, UN Foundation, UN Women, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, World Vision, YWCA
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Today, The Lancet published “A Manifesto for Maternal Health post-2015,” which was co-authored by MHTF Director Ana Langer, along with Lancet Editor Richard Horton, and Guerino Chalamilla, the Executive Director of Management and Development for Health. The manifesto, proposed during … Continue reading
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The Lancet publishes a special issue to coincide with the upcoming Women Deliver conference
Posted on May 17, 2013 by Kate Mitchell
The Lancet has published a special issue, focused on maternal health, that comes just before the third Women Deliver conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This exciting issue includes several studies and comments that examine the critical factors … Continue reading →