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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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As we announced last week, the next event in the 2012-2013 Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health series will be held tomorrow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC at noon. Even if you cannot attend the event in person, we … Continue reading
The next event in the 2012-2013 Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health series cosponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Global Health Initiative, UNFPA, and the MHTF, the Wilson Center will host a discussion on “Addressing Disrespect and Abuse … Continue reading
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Tagged: maternal health, respectful maternity care, UNFPA, Wilson Center
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We are pleased to announce that the next event in the Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health series co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center, UNFPA and the MHTF will be held April 18 from noon to 2pm at the Wilson Center … 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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On April 4, the Woodrow Wilson Center is hosting “Maternal Health in India: Emerging Priorities,” in three locations: New Delhi, Washington, DC and Boston, as well as online, via a live webcast from 9:00-11:00 AM (EDT). From our colleagues at … Continue reading
As part of its Safe Birth. Even Here campaign, UNFPA recently released a new video highlighting the good news: that safe birth is possible even in the most trying of circumstances. The video, as with the campaign itself, focuses on … Continue reading
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Tagged: clean birth kits, crisis, humanitarian assistance, maternal health, newborn health, UNFPA
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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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A message from our colleagues at UNFPA: Nokia joins UNFPA’s Safe Birth. Even Here campaign, through which midwives in refugee camps are reporting on safe deliveries by uploading photos and stories to a website from where the good news can … Continue reading
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Posted on January 23, 2013 by Kate Mitchell
Guest blog post by Sandeep Bathala, Wilson Center This post is cross-posted on the New Security Beat. On day three of the 2013 Global Maternal Health Conference here in Arusha, Tanzania, I was joined by the Global Health Initiative’s partners … Continue reading →