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Guest post by Mande Limbu, Maternal Health Technical Advisor, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood In low resource countries like Rwanda, disrespect and abuse during maternity care is often linked to poor status and working conditions of health workers. As … Continue reading
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Tagged: health systems, health workers, Mande Limbu, maternal health, midwives, respectful care campaign, respectful maternity care blog series, Respectful Maternity Care Charter, Rwanda, White Ribbon Alliance
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This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Written by: Koki Agarwal, Co-Chair, Role Back Malaria “Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group, Director, MCHIP Malaria is a maternal … Continue reading
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Tagged: antenatal care, Countdown to 2015, Ethiopia, insecticide treated nets, intermittent preventive treatment, Kenya, Koki Agarwal, Madagascar, malaria in pregnancy, Malaria in Pregnancy Blog Series, MCHIP, MiP, Mozambique, President's Malaria Initiative, Roll Back Malaria, Rwanda, Tanzania
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This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Written by Bill Brieger, Senior Malaria Specialist, JHPIEGO This post was originally posted on Malaria Matters. While we … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bill Brieger, DHS, ITN, Liberia, LLIN, long lasting insecticide-treated bed nets, malaria, Malaria in Pregnancy Blog Series, MIS, Nigeria, Roll Back Malaria, Rwanda
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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
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Today is World Malaria Day! The theme for this year’s World Malaria Day is “Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria.” A recent report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed that deaths from malaria are … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bill Brieger, CDC, DFID, Global Health e-Learning Center, IHME, Jhpiego, malaria, malaria in pregnancy, Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, Malaria in Pregnancy Library, Malaria Journal, Malaria Matters, MCHIP, PMI, President's Malaria Initiative, PSI, Roll Back Malaria, Rwanda, UNFPA, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, World Malaria Day, World Malaria Day 2012
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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is hosting an event today, Learning From Success: Ministers of Health Discuss Accelerating Progress in Maternal Survival, that will bring together Ministers of Health of Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, and the Permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Learning from Success, maternal health, maternal survival, Policy Dialogue Series, Rwanda, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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This week on the MHTF blog: We posted about an upcoming USAID Maternal Health Technical Series We commented on the World Bank-IMF Global Monitoring Report There was a Maternal Health Policy Dialogue on accessing care in urban slums Mama was … Continue reading
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Tagged: India, M4ID, Mama, misoprostol, performance for payment, Rwanda, scorecards, Senegal, Women's Refugee Commission
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This week on the MHTF blog: The Young Champions of Maternal Health wrote about their projects MHTF Director Ann Blanc has a new paper out on maternal deaths We posted opportunities from the Population Council, Women Deliver and MEASURE Evaluation … Continue reading
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Tagged: Ann Blanc, Bangladesh, community of practice, fistula, Fistula Care, MEASURE Evaluation, Population Council, Rwanda, Women Deliver, Zambia
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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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Women Need More Help In AIDS Battle, Experts Say
Posted on July 26, 2012 by Kate Mitchell
In an article titled Women Need More Health in AIDS Battle, Experts Say, the Huffington Post reports on recent conversations at the International AIDS Conference about the need for more focused efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS among women, … Continue reading →