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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UNFPA’
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 »
WHO Releases New Report Showing a 34% Drop in Maternal Deaths Worldwide
Posted in News, tagged Asia, HIV/AIDS, IHME, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Lancet, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG5, millennium development goal 5, new estimates, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, The Lancet, Thoraya Obaid, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In April, the Lancet published new maternal mortality estimates (out of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) that showed a significant reduction in global maternal deaths, shaking up the global health community’s understanding of the global burden of the issue–and providing new hope. The report also illustrated the important links between HIV/AIDS and maternal [...]
Join the Conversation: The Impact of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity on Economic Development
Posted in Events, Opportunities in Maternal Health, South Africa, Videos, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, donor investment, Dr. Nomonde Xundu, economic development, education, foreign policy, GDP, gender equality, health policy, investing in women and girls, live webcast, Mary Ellen Stanton, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal morbidity, maternal mortality, Mayra Buvinic, MHTF, newborn death, policy implications, productivity, small businesses, smart economics, South Africa, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, unpaid work, USAID, videos, webcast, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative, Woodrow WIlson International Center for Scholars, World Bank on July 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to attend (or watch online) the sixth event of the series, Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health: The Impact of Maternal Mortality and Morbidity on Economic Development. The event will take place on July [...]
Six Months After the Earthquake: Reproductive Health in Haiti
Posted in Haiti, News, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, tagged birthing kits, earthquake, emergency newborn care, Haiti, Haitian Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population, health challenges, hygiene kits, maternal death, maternal health, maternal health supplies, maternal morbidity, midwifery training programs, national health plan, National School of Nurses and Midwives, neonatal health, newborn death, newborn health, referral systems, reproductive health, Reproductive Health in Disaster Settings, reproductive health services, sanitation, sexual violence, six months, solar lamps, temporary camps, tents, UNFPA, UNICEF, United Nations Population Fund, women and girls on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, July 12th, marks six months since the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti earlier this year, killing more than 200,000 people. An article, published today on Relief Web, outlines several of the components of the national health plan of the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (with support from UNFPA) that was developed after [...]
Policy Discussion on Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health: Join the Dialogue in D.C. or Online!
Posted in Announcement, Bolivia, Ghana, India, News, tagged "Emergency 108" call system, Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, ambulances, archived webcast, Bolivia, CARE, CARE-Bolivia, coordination, donor community, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), funding, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, global health priorities, GVK Emergency Management Institute, health systems, Improving Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health, India, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, knowledge sharing, live webcast, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, MHTF, MHTF Blog, obstetric nets manager, private sector, public sector, referral systems, research, road infrastructure, skilled birth attendant, skilled birth attendants, Subodh Satyawadi, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, Victor Conde Altamirano, Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) invite you to attend (or watch online) the fifth event of the series on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health: Improving Transportation and Referral for Maternal Health. The event will be held on May 20th from [...]
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 [...]
International Day of the Midwife: UNFPA and the International Confederation of Midwives Call on World Leaders to Address the Global Shortage of Midwives
Posted in Announcement, News, tagged childbirth, counselling, family planning, global standards, HIV transmission, HIV/AIDS, International Confederation of Midwives, International Day of the Midwife, International Day of the Midwife 2010, joint statement, marginalized populations, maternal death, MDG4, MDG5, MDG6, midwifery care, Millennium Development Goal 4, millennium development goal 5, Millennium Development Goal 6, Millennium Development Goals, postpartum, pregnancy, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of AIDS (PMTCT), UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, world leaders on May 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, May 5th, is International Day of the Midwife—and UNFPA and the International Confederation of Midwives have released a joint statement calling on world leaders to address the shortage of 350,000 midwives around the world. Their statement explains that increased investments in training midwives are critical to reaching the most marginalized communities–who typically lack access [...]
Policy Discussion on Family Planning in Fragile States THIS THURSDAY!
Posted in Announcement, Events, News, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, CEDPA, Centre for Development and Population Activities, Columbia University, conflict settings, disaster settings, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), family planning, fragile states, Grace Kodindo, infant mortality, Karima Tunau, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, MHTF, Nabila Zar Malick, newborn death, newborn health, peacebuilding efforts, Population and Family Health, Rahnuma Family Planning Association of Pakistan, reproductive health, reproductive health in conflict settings, Sandra Krause, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, Usmanu Danpodiyo Hospital, Washington DC, webcast, Women's Refugee Commission, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative on April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a reminder! This event will happen this Thursday, April 29th! The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and Environmental Change and Security Program, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have announced the fourth event of the series on Advancing Policy [...]
Policy Discussion on Family Planning in Fragile States
Posted in Events, News, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, CEDPA, Centre for Development and Population Activities, Columbia University, conflict settings, disaster settings, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), family planning, fragile states, Grace Kodindo, infant mortality, Karima Tunau, maternal death, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, maternal mortality, MHTF, Nabila Zar Malick, newborn death, newborn health, peacebuilding efforts, Population and Family Health, Rahnuma Family Planning Association of Pakistan, reproductive health, reproductive health in conflict settings, Sandra Krause, UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, Usmanu Danpodiyo Hospital, Washington DC, webcast, Women's Refugee Commission, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative and Environmental Change and Security Program, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have announced the fourth event of the series on Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. MHTF Blog The event, Family Planning in [...]
New Study by UNFPA Shows How Maternal Deaths Represent Major Inequities in Argentina
Posted in Argentina, News, tagged abortion, abortion complications, adolescents, Argentina, Buenos Aires, HIV/AIDS, illegal abortion, inequities, Latin America, maternal death, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG5, UN, UNFPA, United Nations on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Latin American Herald Tribune reports on a new study by UNFPA that highlights the incidence of maternal deaths, the frequency of abortion, and the concentration of new HIV cases among the most marginalized sector of the Argentine population. The Latin American Herald Tribune “…The maternal mortality rate remains ‘relatively elevated in relation to the [...]
Today: Discussion on Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems
Posted in Events, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, Agnes Soucat, Columbia University, EngenderHealth, Harvard University School of Public Health, health systems strengthening, Helen de Pinho, Julio Frenk, maternal health, Maternal Health Task Force, MHTF, newborn health, UNFPA, webcast, Woodrow Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative, World Bank on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
WATCH THE LIVE WEBCAST TODAY AT THIS LINK. The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at EngenderHealth, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have announced the third event, Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems, in their series, Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. [...]
Maternal Health Policy Series: Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems
Posted in Opportunities in Maternal Health, tagged Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health, Agnes Soucat, Columbia University, emergency obstetric care (EmOC), EngenderHealth, Harvard University School of Public Health, health systems strengthening, Helen de Pinho, Julio Frenk, Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems, maternal health, Maternal Health Policy Series, Maternal Health Task Force, MHTF, newborn health, UNFPA, Woodrow Wilson Center's Global Health Initiative, Woodrow WIlson International Center for Scholars, World Bank on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Global Health Initiative, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at EngenderHealth, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have announced the third event, Maternal and Newborn Health as a Priority for Strengthening Health Systems, in their series, Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health. MHTF Blog The event will be held on [...]
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 [...]
Baby Boom in Timor-Leste Comes With High Levels of Maternal Mortality
Posted in Timor-Leste, unintended pregnancy, unmet need, tagged access, adolescents, Afghanistan, Asia, birth control, conflict, early marriage, education, family planning, Indonesia, injectable contraception, IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis, Marie Stopes International, maternal health, maternal mortality, MDG5, Melinda Mousaco, Millennium Development Goals, population growth, reproductive health, reproductive health services, rural health, sex education, Timor-Leste, unemployment, UNFPA, unintended pregnancy, unmet need, violence on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to UNFPA, Timor-Leste has a maternal mortality ratio of 660 deaths/100,000 live births IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis “According to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), women in Timor-Leste – the world’s newest independent nation and also Asia’s poorest – give birth to an average 6.38 children during their lifetime, one of the highest fertility [...]
Categories
Tags
Archives
Twitter Updates
Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.
Photo Credit
