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, [...]
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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 »
Internship Opportunity: Spend Fall 2010-Winter 2011 Researching the Use of the Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) to Prevent Maternal Death in Zambia
Posted in Announcement, Opportunities in Maternal Health, Public Health and Technology, Zambia, Zimbabwe, tagged Bixby Center, blood loss, Copper-belt, data collection, Deborah Maine, emergency response, first-aid, Global Health Institute, Global Reproductive Health, health care providers, internship opportunity, JClark@globalhealth.ucsf.edu, LifeWrap, low-cost, low-resource settings, low-tech, maternal death, maternal disability, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, midwifery-led clinics, midwives, Ms. Elizabeth Butrick, NASG, non-pneumatic anti-shock garment, obstetric hemorrhage, opportunities in maternal health, postpartum, postpartum hemorrhage, practicum opportunity, randomized control trial, referral, research, Safe Motherhood Program, Serene Thaddeus, skilled birth attendants, three delays, transportation, UCSF, UCSF Bixby Center, Women's Health and Empowerment Center of Expertise, Zambia, Zimbabwe on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The application process is now closed for this position. (7/22/10) The Safe Motherhood Program at UCSF is accepting applications for an upcoming internship opportunity in the Copper-belt of Zambia. The intern(s) (2 or more interns are needed) will support the start-up of a randomized control trial of the Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) in 24 midwifery-led [...]
PBS Special on Maternal Health in Peru Describes a Program Designed to Meet the Needs of Pregnant Women in Remote Villages
Posted in News, Peru, tagged Andes, Casa Materna, delivery, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), indigenous women, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, maternity homes, MDG5, multimedia, newborn health, newborn mortality, PBS, Peru, pregnancy care, Ray Suarez, remote villages, safe delivery, skilled attendance, skilled birth attendant, traditional birthing chairs, traditional birthing practices, transportation, video, Vilcashuaman on April 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Ray Suarez of PBS, travels to Peru to investigate how health officials, obstetricians, nurses and activists are making better use of existing resources and linking pregnant women to those resources—all in hopes of seeing a reduction in maternal deaths. In this article and video, Suarez reports on a system of maternity homes, homes where pregnant women from [...]
Sierra Leone Puts an End to Health Center User Fees for Pregnant Women, Lactating Mothers and Children Under Five
Posted in News, Sierra Leone, tagged access to care, C.T.H Bell, children under five, decision-making, free care, Freetown, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG5, Millennium Development Goals, Monir Islam, New Life Hospital, pregnant women, prompt treatment, rural health, Sierra Leone, transport infrastructure, transportation, user fees, WHO's Making Pregnancies Safer Programme on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The government of Sierra Leone has announced an end to health center user fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children under five. Questions remain regarding the multiple factors that contribute to maternal death in Sierra Leone. IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis In this story, IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis takes a closer look at [...]
PBS Special on Maternal Health in Haiti Viewable Online
Posted in Haiti, Public Health and Technology, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, unintended pregnancy, unmet need, tagged access, adolescents, ambulance, Ann Starrs, birth control, Bureau for International Reporting (BIR), contraceptives, earthquake, education, Family Care International, family planning, global health, Haiti, Haitian Health Foundation, HIV/AIDS, journalism, maternal death, maternal health, maternal health supplies, maternal mortality, MDG5, media, midwives, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals and the Media, multimedia, NOW, NOW PBS, PBS, pre-natal, skilled birth attendant, transportation, UNFPA, unintended pregnancy, United Nations, unmet need, youth on February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A NOW team from PBS recently went to Haiti to investigate high levels of maternal mortality in the country. They happened to be in the Haiti when the earthquake hit. In collaboration with the Bureau for International Reporting (BIR), a non-profit video news production company, PBS produced Saving Haiti’s Mothers, a show that examines the [...]
Launched Today: A Collection of Personal Stories of Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan, the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, unmet need, tagged access, adolescents, Afghanistan, child health, Dari, early marriage, education, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), family planning, IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis, journalistic capacity building, Kabul, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDG5, midwives, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals and the Media, nutrition, Pashto, radio project, remote, reproductive health, reproductive health services, rural, sex education, skilled birth attendant, transport, transportation, unintended pregnancy, unmet need, Veil of Tears, villages on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Veil of Tears is a collection of transcribed interviews with children, women, and men in Afghanistan about loss in childbirth. These interviews are part of IRIN’s Kabul-based radio project, which closed at the end of 2009 after six years of humanitarian radio production and journalistic capacity building in Afghanistan. IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis “In Veil [...]
Three New ‘Nollywood’ Style Films Address the Issue of Maternal Mortality in Nigeria
Posted in the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, tagged abortion, activism, adolescents, birth control, childbirth, Communicating for Change (CFC), contraceptives, Dr. Babatunde Ahonsi, Dr. Boniface Oye Adeniran, early marriage, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), family planning, film, films, Ford Foundation, gender, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, maternal health, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, MDG5, multimedia, Nigeria, Nollywood, pregnant women, reproductive health, skilled birth attendant, Too Far, Too Late, Too Young, transportation, unintended pregnancy, unmet need on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Too Young , Too Late and Too Far recently premiered in Lagos, Nigeria The films, produced by Communicating for Change (CFC), were shot in the ‘Nollywood’ style which involves a combination of suspense and drama—but the project team also included health expert script consultants, Dr Boniface Oye Adeniran, Obstetrician/Gynecologist of the Lagos State University Teaching [...]
In Pictures: Death Stalks Birth in Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan, Public Health and Technology, the Millennium Development Goals and the Media, tagged access, Afghanistan, Andrew North, Badakhshan province, clean water, Dr. Wakila Karim, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), international aid, maternal health, maternal health supplies, maternal mortality, maternity hospital, MDG5, Millennium Development Goals, Public Health and Technology, transportation, water on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BBC News Take a look at this collection of photos and captions by BBC’s Andrew North that highlights several of the factors contributing to extremely high levels of maternal mortality in Afghanistan. Click here to see the entire collection of photos and captions.
WHO, EC give help to Tanzania
Posted in Tanzania, tagged emergency obstetric care (EmOC), Tanzania, transportation on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Citizen Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania An effort to improve access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care services in Tanzania: 14 ambulances, five pick-up trucks, five motorcycles, and blood bank and basic delivery equipment are donated The World Health Organization and the European Commission donated equipment worth $985,718 to the Tanzanian government. The Minister of [...]
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