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Earlier this year, we ran a series of posts exploring linkages between water, sanitation and maternal health. WASH for Mothers included issues such as health systems, integrating maternal care and water delivery, and infection prevention, among others. This week, … Continue reading
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Tagged: family planning, Global Post, Jan Eliasson, maternal deaths, MDGs, sanitation, water
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John A. Ross of the Futures Group and MHTF Director Ann K. Blanc recently published a decomposition analysis of maternal deaths based on data published last year by the UN and Hogan et al. The paper notes that despite an … Continue reading
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Tagged: Ann K. Blanc, John A. Ross, maternal deaths, maternal mortality estimates, maternal mortality rate, publications
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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: Jill Sheffield, … Continue reading
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Tagged: childbirth, counting maternal deaths, counting women, data models, economic development, family planning, Human Rights, Jill Sheffield, maternal deaths, maternal health field, real-time data, safe abortion, skilled care, tracking maternal deaths, UN data, universal access, women count, Women Deliver, womens rights
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On September 20th from 9:00am – 9:30am in Times Square, Amnesty International will be displaying a “clock” which will count the women who die every minute as a result of complications during child birth/pregnancy. The billboard will be presented on … Continue reading
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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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Task-Shifting–Or Why Doctors Might Not Always Be Necessary to Save Mothers’ Lives
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Kate Mitchell
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 →