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Guest post by Gemma Bulos, Director of the Global Women’s Water Initiative. At Amuria High School in Uganda, even though female students live at the school as boarders, perfect attendance is not guaranteed. Girl children are required to fetch water … Continue reading
Guest blog post by Girija Sankar, director of Haiti programs, senior program manager, Global Health Action Over 2000 abstracts were submitted to the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013. Eventually, around 800 delegates from all around the world presented papers and posters … Continue reading
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Tagged: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, GMHC2013, home birth, Nigeria, Pakistan, quality of care, TBAs, traditional birth attendants, Uganda
Posted in: Commentary, Conferences and Meetings
According to the Healthy Newborn Network, Health Policy and Planning recently published a supplement, A Decade of Change for Newborn Survival, that shares a multi-country analysis of the changes in newborn care and survival from 2000-2010. The supplement also includes 5 detailed country case … Continue reading
This post is part of a blog series on Malaria in Pregnancy. To view the entire series, click here. Written by Dr. Sylla Thiam, Malaria Programme Lead, AMREF Pregnant women living in malaria-endemic regions are particularly vulnerable to … Continue reading
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Tagged: AMREF, anemia, antenatal care, capacity-building, family planning, HIV, insecticide treated nets, integration, intermittent preventive therapy, IPTp, ITN, Kenya, low birth weight, malaria, Malaria in Pregnancy Blog Series, maternal death, maternal health, MiP, nutrition, primary care, reproductive health, South Sudan, Stand Up for African Mothers campaign, sub-Saharan Africa, Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine, Tanzania, Uganda
Posted in: Commentary, Policy and Advocacy
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $75 million in U.S. support to the “Saving Mothers, Giving Life” initiative that aims to reduce maternal mortality in Africa, starting in Zambia and Uganda. The Norwegian Foreign Minister said Norway would … Continue reading
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Tagged: Chicago Tribune, Global Post, Hillary Clinton, Norway, Relief Web, Saving Mothers Giving Life, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Uganda, US, Zambia
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Recently, The New York Times featured a piece on free health care in Sierra Leone for mothers and children. Maternal health had another prominent space in The Times last weekend with a discussion of maternal deaths in Uganda, which have … Continue reading
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Tagged: access to health care, health care, maternal death, maternal mortality, New York Times, Sierra Leone, Uganda
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During conflicts and displacement, the need for reproductive health services does not disappear. A new paper in BMC Health and Conflict reports on baseline findings from surveys of women in conflict settings in Uganda, Sudan, and the DRC. The authors … Continue reading
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Tagged: conflict settings, Democratic Republic of Congo, displacement, family planning, health services, reproductive health, Sudan, Uganda
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This week on the MHTF blog: Joslyn Meier and Peter Mukasa of EngenderHealth wrote about partograph use in Uganda We posted about demand and supply side interventions for maternal health A review of evidence on referral system interventions Find out … Continue reading
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Tagged: cash transfers, EngenderHealth, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, transporation and referral, Uganda, Women Deliver
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Written by: Joslyn Meier, Program Associate and Peter Mukasa, Senior Medical Associate, EngenderHealth At 16, Jenny Nalukwago became pregnant and dropped out of school. After learning about the importance of antenatal care at her school in central Uganda, she … Continue reading
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Tagged: EngenderHealth, fistula, Fistula Care, Joslyn Meier, partograph, Peter Mukasa, Uganda
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For World Malaria Day: The 5 most buzzworthy things we’ve learned about malaria in pregnancy this year
Posted on April 25, 2013 by Sarah Blake
Guest post by Samantha Lattof, MHTF Senior Research and Evaluation Manager Happy World Malaria Day! This year, we’re celebrating the theme “Invest in the future. Defeat malaria.” Over the past year, there have been many important research findings and new publications … Continue reading →