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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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Last week, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released, Financing for Global Health: The End of the Golden Era? its fourth annual report analyzing trends in Development Assistance for Health (DAH) from 1990 through 2009, with estimates through … Continue reading
The progress made on maternal health since the creation of the Millennium Development Goals has been uneven both between and within countries. However, the data coverage, particularly for maternal mortality ratios (MMR), within countries cannot always tells us the full … Continue reading
Written by: Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health “It is an international scandal that more than 350,000 women die in the developing world every year from complications in pregnancy or child birth that can be easily prevented.” These … Continue reading
Women Deliver has been running a series of blog posts addressing the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. A number of experts have offered thoughts on a global framework for health after the MDGs. Now is your chance … Continue reading
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Tagged: discussion forum, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, online discussion, Women Deliver
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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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Photo courtesy of Water.org The following post is part of a series of posts, WASH for Mothers, exploring water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and maternal health. It is written by Margaret Catley-Carlson who is currently Chair of the Board … Continue reading
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Tagged: environment, Margaret Catley-Carlson, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDGs, sanitation and hygiene, WASH, WASH for Mothers, water
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Back in May, we posted on GlobalMama about how to start thinking about advocacy, development and health policy after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach their 2015 deadline: [After 2015] a useful framework for addressing some development challenges will disappear. … Continue reading
In the maternal health community, we often refer to Millennium Development Goal 5, which sets the goal of reducing maternal mortality by two-thirds by 2015. It gets used as an advocacy tool, a way to hold donors and governments accountable … Continue reading
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Tagged: advocacy, MDG 5, MDGs, Millennium Development Goal 5, Millennium Development Goals, policy makers
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Written by: Kate Mitchell This post was originally published on Kate Mitchell’s blog, Maternal Mortality Daily. Reposted with permission. On Wednesday, September 29th, nearly 300 community health workers from 174 villages in the rural Seraikela block of Jharkhand, India came … Continue reading
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