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By Maternova
By this point, you may be familiar with Plumpy’nutr®, the miraculous peanut paste in a foil pouch that is being used to treat children with severe acute malnutrition in communities around the world. To recap: the genius of this innovation is that children can be treated at home rather than as inpatients. But what you may not know is that a variation of Plumpy’nut®’s sister product, Nutributter® is being tested for improving the odds for pregnant women and their infants. Nutributter® is also a micronutrient-fortified semi-solid paste. It’s also known as a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS)
May 21st, 2013 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
The 66th World Health Assembly convened today, May 20 with addresses and discussions focused on the post-2015 global development agenda. The Assembly runs through May 28, and will feature numerous discussions and consideration of resolutions on issues that are critical … Continue reading →
May 21st, 2013 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
The Lancet has published a special issue, focused on maternal health, that comes just before the third Women Deliver conference to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This exciting issue includes several studies and comments that examine the critical factors … Continue reading →
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Family planning,HIV/AIDS,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
Model-based estimates of the global proportions of maternal deaths that are in HIV-infected women range from 7% to 21%, and the effects of HIV on the risk of maternal death is highly uncertain. We used longitudinal data from the Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA) network to estimate the excess mortality associated with [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in HIV/AIDS,Infectious Disease,Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
Maternal and neonatal mortality rates remain high in many low-income and middle-income countries. Different approaches for the improvement of birth outcomes have been used in community-based interventions, with heterogeneous effects on survival. We assessed the effects of women’s groups practising participatory learning and action, compared with usual care, on birth outcomes in low-resource settings. via [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Infant & Child Health,Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
Women’s groups and health education by peer counsellors can improve the health of mothers and children. We assessed their effects on mortality and breastfeeding rates in rural Malawi. via Effect of women’s groups and volunteer peer counselling on rates of mortality, morbidity, and health behaviours in mothers and children in rural Malawi (MaiMwana): a factorial, [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Infant & Child Health,Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
Nigerian officials hope that new measures to improve health care for women will bring down the country’s high maternal mortality rate. via Nigeria aims to boost fight against maternal mortality : The Lancet.
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
In the past 30 years, reduction of maternal mortality has been a prominent focus in global public health. Improvements in women’s reproductive health and antenatal and obstetric services mean that Millennium Development Goal 5 (target A of which aims to reduce maternal mortality by 75% between 1990 and 2015) has come within sight in many [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Featured Content,HIV/AIDS,Infectious Disease,Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
Millennium Development Goal 5 sets the ambitious goal of a 75% reduction in maternal mortality worldwide by 2015. Although some progress has been made, the risks from childbearing remain unacceptably high: an estimated 287 000 maternal deaths occurred in 2010, almost all of which were in developing countries. Moreover, maternal deaths are just the tip of [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Featured Content,Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By GHHub
The third Women Deliver conference, on May 28—30, 2013, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, marks a new chapter for maternal health in Malaysia and worldwide. We have witnessed national maternal mortality rates in Malaysia decrease from 540 per 100 000 livebirths in 1957 to just 28 in 2010. The percentage of women delivering in national institutional settings [...]
May 17th, 2013 | Posted in Featured Content,Journal Watch,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
Written by Samantha Lattof, MHTF Senior Research and Evaluation Manager Despite encouraging progress, coverage of malaria control efforts among pregnant women remains low. Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) continues to be a substantial contributor to maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in … Continue reading →
May 16th, 2013 | Posted in HIV/AIDS,Malaria,Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
Guest post by Fistula Care. With just 1 midwife for every 1000 live births, Sierra Leone needs a twelve-fold increase in its midwifery workforce to ensure full coverage of maternal and newborn health services. It is tempting to focus exclusively … Continue reading →
May 15th, 2013 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
By Maternova
The first day of life is also the most risky, both for the infant–and often for the mother. This year’s report on the State of the World’s Mothers came out last week. The focus of this report is on the first day of life. Save the Children, authors of the report, developed the first-ever “Birth Day Risk Index” to assess newborn odds of survival on that very first day that they are born.
May 15th, 2013 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health | Read More »
By Maternal Health Task force
On May 12th, NPR ran a story, C-Sections Deliver Cachet For Wealthy Brazilian Women, that explores the extraordinary numbers of Cesarean deliveries occurring in Brazil. The author discusses various factors that might be contributing to the issue: To what extent … Continue reading →
May 14th, 2013 | Posted in Maternal & Reproductive Health,Women & Children | Read More »
