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India’s Giant Maternal Health Experiment: Paying Women for Facility Births
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View ArticleNo more catch 22: Saving mothers and babies in Peru
By Dr. Mario Tavera Salazar, a UNICEF pediatrician specializing in maternal and child health care in the rural Amazonian basin. I will retire this year after 22 years at UNICEF, having witnessed a...
View ArticleDistribution of cause of death in rural Bangladesh during 2003–2010: evidence...
Objective: This study used the InterVA-4 computerised model to assign probable cause of death (CoD) to verbal autopsies (VAs) generated from two rural areas, with a difference in health service...
View ArticleImproved Malaria Services in Malawi: Jhpiego and USAID at ASTMH
Monday afternoon (3 October 2014) at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Jhpiego and USAID/PMI are sponsoring a panel on “Integrating and Innovating:...
View ArticleNew technology and illness self-management: Potential relevance for...
Publication date: Available online 5 November 2014 Source:Social Science & Medicine Author(s): Henry Lucas Advances in technology have made it possible for many standard diagnostic and health...
View ArticleExpecting Mothers Among First to Benefit from Cellphone Access in Myanmar
“Myanmar was seen as the last frontier in mobile communications until recently when the government opened its doors to foreign telecommunications firms. One of its largest contractors, mobile network...
View ArticleTranslating Research into Practice Series: Using Research Findings to...
Originally featured on the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) Blog site, this post is part of the Translating Research into Practice Series which features guest posts from authors of the MHTF-PLOS...
View ArticleDevelopment and formative evaluation of an innovative mHealth intervention...
Background: A new cadre of village-based frontline health workers, called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), was created in India. Continued here – Development and formative evaluation of an...
View ArticleInternational Day of the Midwife: What are Global Leaders Saying?
– Written by Kate Millar, Technical Writer, Maternal Health Task ForceThis post originally appeared in the American College of Nurse Midwives’ Quickening, Volume 46, Number 2 (Spring 2015). It was...
View ArticleMotivation and satisfaction among community health workers in Morogoro...
Background: In 2012, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), Tanzania, approved national guidelines and training materials for community health workers (CHWs) in integrated maternal,...
View ArticleNewborn kits to save brains in Pakistan
The Hospital for Sick Kids in Canada, in partnership with Aga Khan University, are using an effective human resource and a set of proven, simple interventions to save brains in Pakistan. The secret...
View ArticleFinding the gap: Revealing local disparities in coverage of maternal,...
Objectives We adapted a rapid monitoring method to South Sudan, a new nation with one of the world’s highest maternal and child mortality rates, aiming to assess coverage of maternal, neonatal, and...
View ArticleRole and use of evidence in policymaking: an analysis of case studies from...
Background: Health policymaking is a complex process and analysing the role of evidence is still an evolving area in many low- and middle-income countries. Link to article: Role and use of evidence in...
View ArticleTwo Minute Update on the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations recently concluded its Sustainable Development Summit of 2015. At this summit, new [Sustainable Development Goals] (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/focussdgs.html) were...
View ArticleMalaria Sessions at APHA15
The 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association (#APHA15) Begins formally on 31st October 2015 in Chicago. This year’s theme, “Health in All Policies” recognizes that “many...
View ArticleThe quantitative impact assessment of community health projects in selected...
Chulwoo (Charles) Park who has been undertaking the Masters of Science in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is sharing herein his experiences with the LiST tool in...
View ArticleIndia’s commitment to protect children from diarrhea just reached a new...
On March 26, 2016, India joined the growing number of countries that have introduced rotavirus vaccine into their national immunization programs. The Indian Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Mr....
View ArticleLow-Cost Expansion Of Basic Maternal, Infant, Child Health Care In LMICs...
Quartz: Expanding life-saving health care in poor nations would cost $5 per person, researchers say “…New research, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, found that we could expand health...
View ArticleGates Foundation Official Discusses Global Progress On Maternal, Newborn,...
Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: Mariam Claeson: Quality, Not Quantity of Care for Maternal and Child Health Sean Peoples, a multimedia producer...
View ArticleSPO, Discovery and Translational Science, MNCH Job (Seattle, WA, US)
DivisionGlobal Health ProgramDepartmentDiscovery Cross CuttingLocationSeattleFoundation OverviewGuided by the belief that all lives have equal value, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation pride...
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