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Recently, the Guardian’s Global Development Network posted an article, Developing world gains open access to science research, but hurdles remain, that describes the rise in commitments from various groups to ensure that their research is openly accessible to all. The … Continue reading
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Tagged: BioMed Central, open access, research, The Guardian, Wellcome Trust, World Bank
Posted in: Commentary, News
Today, the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report provided a brief summary of the focus on women and children at the United Nations General Assembly. The summary highlights a number of news publications that report on the discussions about the health and … Continue reading
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Tagged: Every Woman Every Child, Jim Yong Kim, Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, United Nations General Assembly, World Bank
Posted in: Announcements, Conferences and Meetings, News, Policy and Advocacy
In the maternal health community, we often decry a lack of good data, which is often echoed by others working on a number of women’s issue. In order to address some of these data gaps, the U.S. government and the … Continue reading
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Tagged: data, gender, Hillary Clinton, Jim Kim, Jim Yong Kim, United States Government, World Bank
Posted in: News
New global maternal mortality estimates were released today in a report by the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Bank. The report,“Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010”, shows that the … Continue reading
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Tagged: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, global health, India, Indonesia, Iran, Lithuania, Maldives, maternal mortality, MDG5, Nepal, new maternal mortality estimates, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, sub-Saharan Africa, Tanzania, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank
Posted in: Commentary, Evidence, News, Policy and Advocacy
According to a recent post on the RH Vouchers Blog, a new study in Health Policy and Planning , Community-level impact of the reproductive health vouchers programme on service utilization in Kenya, suggests that a recent voucher program was associated with … Continue reading
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Tagged: antenatal care, Health Policy and Planning, institutional deliveries, Kenya, Population Council, postnatal care, reproductive health, RH Vouchers, skilled birth attendance, vouchers, World Bank
Posted in: Evidence, News, Resources
This Friday, April 20th, our colleagues at IntraHealth are bringing together “thought leaders, inventors, industry greats, tech superstars, multi-disciplinary entrepreneurs, academics, crisis responders, innovators, brand-makers, communication specialists, community builders, and funders from all over the world” to share ideas and … Continue reading
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Tagged: Development Seed, entrepreneurs, global health equity, Google, Intrahealth, Medic Mobile, SwitchPoint, USAID, webcast, World Bank
Posted in: Conferences and Meetings, News, Opportunities, Resources
Jed Friedman, from the World Bank, wrote an interesting post about the potential impacts of paying-for-performance for health workers. He notes, that in some cases, introducing extrinsic motivation may decrease intrinsic motivation and end up having the opposite effect of … Continue reading
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Tagged: health workers, India, Janani Suraksha Yojana, pay for performance, performance for payment, World Bank
Posted in: News
A recent study (PDF) by Alfredo Burlando of the University of Oregon on income shocks, maternal nutrition and infant health was highlighted on the World Bank’s Development Impact blog, an excellent resource for people interested in impact evaluation in economic … Continue reading
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Tagged: infant health, maternal health, natural experiments, nutrition, Tanzania, World Bank, Zanzibar
Posted in: News
The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the “Global Monitoring Report 2011: Improving the Odds of Achieving the MDGs” late last week, reflecting on the likelihood of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Two-thirds of developing … Continue reading
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Tagged: International Monetary Fund, MDG 5, Millennium Development Goals, World Bank
Posted in: News
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Women: Producers, Not Just Reproducers
Posted on May 29, 2013 by Kate Mitchell
Our coverage of the Women Deliver 2013 conference continues–with a Storify featuring highlights from the first few days of the conference, live tweeting from various conference sessions, and this guest post from Schuyler Null of the Wilson Center. Guest post … Continue reading →