This is the third post in a series on maternal health in rural Jharkhand, India. At 4am, Radha’s body became completely stiff. Then came the convulsions. Radha, a newly married young woman in a small village in rural Jharkhand, was pregnant with her first child and her due date was just one week away. Radha’s [...]
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Radha’s Story: Unforeseen Consequences of Cash Payments for Institutional Deliveries
Posted in Browse by Country, India, tagged American India Foundation, ASHA, cash incentive, CCT, community health workers, conditional cash transfer, eclampsia, home birth, home delivery, India, institutional delivery, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Jharkhand, JSY, maternal health, National Family Health Survey of India, National Rural Health Mission, NRHM, pregnancy, quality of care, rural health, Seraikela Block, Tata Steel Rural Development Society, three delays, three delays framework for understanding maternal mortality, Time of India on June 14, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Cash on Delivery? Putting JSY’s Payments in Context
Posted in Browse by Country, India, tagged community health workers, health services, India, infant health, institutional delivery, maternal health, pregnancy on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post is the second in a series on maternal health in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand, India. Janani Suraksha Yojana, or JSY, is a conditional cash transfer program first instituted by the government of India under the National Rural Health Mission in 2005. A 2010 review published in The Lancet in 2010 characterized JSY as [...]
Janani Suraksha Yojana and the Bumpy Road to Maternal Health in Rural India
Posted in Browse by Country, India, tagged American India Foundation, cash incentive, community health workers, conditional cash transfer, EngenderHealth, Gates Foundation, health policy, home delivery, human rights, India, institutional delivery, Jamshedpur, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Jharkhand, JSY, Kate Mitchell, Lancet, maternal and newborn health, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, National Rural Health Mission, neonatal mortality, newborn health, newborn mortality, perinatal mortality, Sarah Blake, Seraikela Block, transportation, UNFPA, Women Deliver on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This post is the first in a series on maternal health in the Seraikela block of Jharkhand, India. In 2009, Sarah Blake and I worked together at the Maternal Health Task Force, a Gates Foundation funded maternal health initiative based at EngenderHealth in New York City. Since then, Sarah went on to work as a consultant with several non-profit organizations, [...]
The Paperless Partogram: The 20-Second Tool for Preventing Prolonged Labor
Posted in India, News, Public Health and Technology, tagged appropriate technology, Baby Bubbles, community health workers, Dr. A. K. Debdas, health innovation, India, innovation, maternal health, Maternova, newborn health, obstructed labor, paperless partogram, partograph, prolonged labor, Salad Spinner Centrifuge for Anemia, skilled birth attendant, WHO, World Health Organization on November 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On November 15th, Maternova, an organization that conducts continuous research into the latest innovations impacting maternal and newborn health, featured the “paperless partogram” on their blog. The blog post explains that for the past thirty years, the partogram has been the recommended practice for preventing prolonged labor in low-resource settings–but it seems that not all [...]
Can You Identify the Ten Best–and Worst–Places in the World to Be a Mother?
Posted in Afghanistan, Australia, News, Norway, tagged 11th Annual "Mothers' Inex, Afghanistan, Australia, best places to be a mother, bottom ten places to be a mothers, child health, community health workers, country comparisons, female health workers, front line health workers, infant health, International Confederation of Midwives, maternal and child health, maternal health, newborn health, Norway, Save the Children, State of the World's Mothers Report 2010, top ten places to be a mother, UNFPA, worst places to be a mother on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A new report by Save the Children, “State of the World’s Mothers 2010,” identifies Norway as the best place in the world to be a mother–and Afghanistan as the worst. Save the Children The focus of the report is on the shortage of front line health workers in developing countries–and the critical need to train [...]
May 5th 2010: eConference on the Use of Mobile Technologies for Improving Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health Services
Posted in Announcement, Opportunities in Maternal Health, tagged cell phones, community health workers, continuum of care, eConference, family planning, free conference, gender, maternal health, May 5th, mHealth, mHealth Alliance, mobile technologies, mobile technology, neonatal health, newborn health, online conference, open source, reproductive health, Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS), USAID on May 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) and mHealth Alliance are holding a free online conference this Wednesday (May 5th) to discuss how mobile technologies can improve family planning and maternal and newborn health services in developing countries. The conference will include live discussions with mHealth leaders on a variety of topics including strengthening [...]
Peer-to-Peer Health Care Delivery Model: Ecuadorian Teens Deliver Injectable Contraceptives to Peers
Posted in Ecuador, unintended pregnancy, unmet need, tagged access, activism, adolescents, birth control, CEMOPLAF, Chimborazo, CHW, community health workers, condoms, contraception, contraceptives, Ecuador, education, family planning, HIV/AIDS, indigenous, injectable contraception, injectables, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDG5, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, reproductive health, reproductive health services, sex education, skilled birth attendant, task sharing, task-shifting, teens, the pill, unintended pregnancy, unmet need, youth on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Planned Parenthood Federation of America and CEMOPLAF, an Ecuadorian reproductive health organization, are working together to train Ecuadorian teens to become community health workers in the Chimborazo region of central Ecuador. Global Health Magazine “Ecuador has the highest adolescent fertility rate in Latin America, and this skyrockets when we’re talking about rural or indigenous youth. [...]
Dying for Cell Phones (Literally).
Posted in Ghana, Public Health and Technology, the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, tagged Amensie, cell phones, community health workers, Ericsson, Ghana, maternal health, maternal mortality, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Villages Project, telecommunication, Zain on December 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
GHANA www.irinnews.org Access to cell phone technology has contributed to a dramatic reduction in maternal mortality in small villages in Ghana. In 2006, as part of the Millennium Villages Project, cell phone producer Ericsson teamed up with mobile telecommunications firm Zain to set up mobile phone coverage in several villages in Ghana including Amensie. The [...]
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