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By Maternal Health Task force
According to a new study published in PLoS One by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the World Health Organization (WHO), a simple and low-cost checklist has the potential to dramatically improve practices of health workers during childbirth. From our colleagues at Harvard School of Public Health: The researchers conducted the study at a hospital in Karnataka, India. As part of the checklist-based program, local staff reviewed deficiencies in their current practices and undertook training on using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist. The 29 items on the checklist address the major causes of maternal deaths (e.g. hemorrhage, infection, obstructed labor, and hypertensive disease), intrapartum-related stillbirths, and neonatal deaths (e.g
May 17th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternova
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May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
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 number of women dying of pregnancy and childbirth related complications has almost halved in 20 years. The estimates show that from 1990 to 2010, the annual number of maternal deaths has dropped from more than 543,000 to 287,000–and that a number of countries have already reached the MDG target of 75 per cent reduction in maternal death. Major highlights from the report: • In 2010, the global maternal mortality ratio was 210 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest maternal mortality ratio at 500 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. • In sub-Saharan Africa, a woman faces a 1 in 39 lifetime risk of dying due to pregnancy or childbirth-related complications.
May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternova
See the article here: Maternal morbidity: maternal deaths are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
Harvard School of Public Health is looking for a Senior Grants Manager to provide grants management support to the Women and Health Initiative (W&HI)–including the Maternal Health Task Force. Please see below for the job description: Reporting to the Assistant Director of Finance and Grants Administration (ADF), this position will provide financial and grant management expertise and leadership within the Department of Global Health and Population (GHP) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). As a member of the GHP finance team, the Senior Grants Manager (SGM) will oversee a diverse and challenging portfolio of non-federal and federal grants, subawards and contracts, and will be responsible for managing related non-sponsored funds as well. Within his/her portfolio, the SGM will provide financial and grants management support primarily to the Women and Health Initiative (W&HI), managing, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating multiple grants, subcontracts and service agreements (both foreign and domestic). S/he will assist the Director of the W&HI and the W&HI’s Project Management team with project budget development, financial management and compliance, and reporting.
May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
HRH | Abstract | The effects of midwives’ job satisfaction on burnout, intention to quit and turnover: a longitudinal study in Senegal.
May 13th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
Mother’s Day 2012 provides a good occasion to celebrate accomplishments in the field over the past year. The Maternal Health Task Force shares ten exciting developments. The State of the World’s Midwives report provided the first comprehensive analysis of midwifery services in countries where the needs are greatest. The MHTF & PLoS launched an open-access collection on quality of maternal health care. UNICEF & UNFPA launched the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities, to increase access to maternal, child, and newborn health commodities
May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
Save the Children’s thirteenth State of the World’s Mothers report was released yesterday–providing a ranking of the “best” and “worst” places to be a mother, based on various indicators such as lifetime risk of maternal death, number of years of formal schooling, maternity leave benefits, access to safe water, under 5 mortality rate, and many others. The report, titled Nutrition in the First 1,000 Days: The State of the World’s Mothers 2012, takes a close look at the role of nutrition during the period from the start of a mother’s pregnancy through her child’s second birthday, the first 1,000 days. Save the Children’s thirteenth State of the World’s Mothers report shows Niger as the worst place to be a mother in the world — replacing Afghanistan for the first time in two years. Norway comes in at first place. The Best and Worst Places to Be a Mom ranking, which compares 165 countries around the globe, looks at factors such as a mother’s health, education and economic status, as well as critical child indicators such as health and nutrition.
May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, Melinda Gates explained that she has decided to make family planning her signature issue and primary public health priority. Written by Michelle Goldberg, the Newsweek piece describes Gates’ passion for increasing access to contraception, her commitment to building consensus (and breaking down the controversy) around family planning, and her plans to start raising $4 billion to dramatically increase global access to contraceptives. Now the foundation, which is worth almost $34 billion, is putting her agenda into practice. In July it’s teaming up with the British government to cosponsor a summit of world leaders in London, to start raising the $4 billion the foundation says it will cost to get 120 million more women access to contraceptives by 2020.
May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
Last month, the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics published a paper, Awareness of danger signs and symptoms of pregnancy complication among women in Jordan, that explores the levels and determinants of awareness of danger signs of pregnancy complications among pregnant women in Jordan. The researchers found that awareness of danger signs was low and that a number of sociodemographic factors were associated with awareness–such as duration of education, current employment, husband’s duration of education, and others. Take a look at the abstract: Objective To assess the level and determinants of awareness of the danger signs and symptoms of pregnancy complication among pregnant Jordanian women aged 15 years and older. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional study of 350 women attending prenatal care services was performed. Interviews were conducted at 4 public-health centers in Zarqa, Jordan, using a structured questionnaire
May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
In honor of International Day of the Midwife (tomorrow, May 5th), our colleagues at AMREF shared a blog post today that calls on governments and development partners to invest in training midwives. The post describes the critical role that midwives play in sub-Saharan Africa and outlines the various ways that AMREF is supporting midwives–including their efforts to train 15,000 midwives in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 as well as their plans to nominate an African midwife for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. From AMREF’s post: Midwife literally translates to “With a Woman” from Latin, reflecting the practice that from time immemorial, women sought the assistance of other women close to them at the time of labour and childbirth. Midwives have therefore been part of the human experience since time immemorial. Up until the advent of modern midwifery in approximately the 17th and 18th centuries when the first schools of midwifery training appeared in Europe, the whole world had approximately the same levels of maternal death during childbirth, roughly 20%, with the most feared causes being hemorrhage and puerperal fever, or infection after childbirth
May 4th, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
The Asia Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care begins tomorrow, May 4, 2012 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The three-day meeting plans to focus on postpartum hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia as well as other issues relating to maternal and newborn health. The meeting will bring together maternal and newborn health leaders, clinicians, and program managers. The event is sponsored by the Government of Bangladesh, USAID’s flagship Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-supported Oxytocin Initiative, in collaboration with Women Deliver, VSI, FIGO, and ICM.
May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternova
See the original post: 2 "Mompreneurs" unite to empower women globally
May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
A report released today, Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth, features the first-ever estimates of preterm birth rates by country. The report, coordinated by the March of Dimes, the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Save the Children and the World Health Organization, shows that preterm birth is now the leading cause of newborn death around the world. The report makes the case for why preterm birth matters–and how important it is that the global health community pay more focused attention to the issue. Urgent action is needed to address the estimated 15 million babies born too soon, especially as preterm birth rates are increasing each year. This is essential in order to progress on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for child survival by 2015 and beyond, since 40% of under-five deaths are in newborns, and it will also give added value to maternal health (MDG 5) investments.
May 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
