maternal-health


  • Pre-Service Education Toolkit

    Tulenko K (IntraHealth International, supporting organization), USAID, Jhpeigo, MChip. 2011.  This pre-service education toolkit outlines key programmatic steps, highlights lessons learned, and identifies key resources to assist country programs, donors, and governments to develop...

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  • Community Health Workers Counseling Women in India

    Jharna Tigga Jharna Tigga works with the Indian government’s Integrated Child Development Services program supervising about 40 Anganwadi centers. She has been doing this work for the past two decades, visiting four centers a day when public transportation is available. When...

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  • New UNFPA Report Highlights Need for 350,000 More Midwives

    Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and partner agencies released The State of the World’s Midwifery 2011 report, which shows the world is short 350,000 midwives—nearly the same number of women who die each year from complications of pregnancy or childbirth:...

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  • Celebrating a ‘Brilliant Visionary’:
    Malian Midwife Makes a Difference

    Fatoumata Maïga Dicko is a proud Malian midwife who has never regretted her career choice. “I was actually inspired by another midwife,” she shares. ”She had a great reputation, and everyone spoke highly of her. When I saw how good she was to other women, she made me...

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  • Voices from the Field: Sangeeta Delivers—Helping Indian Women, Infants Survive Childbirth

    “I am not an expert like others, many things taught are new to me, and I don’t know how I will remember them all. I don’t know how I will conduct delivery during the clinical training sessions.” Training Gives Confidence to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives Sangeeta Kumari is...

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  • Launch of Nutrition Mission Based on Coalition’s Recommendations

    Although India has made tremendous advances in science, medicine, information technology, and many other fields, and has experienced unprecedented economic growth over the past decade, malnutrition remains unacceptably high. [1] Half of India’s population does not get enough protein,...

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  • Health Professionals Recommend Ways to Better Prevent, Treat, and Manage Obstetric Fistula

    Last month, at the 3 rd International Conference for the Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons in Dakar, Senegal, 300 participants from more than 30 countries outlined some concrete ways to prevent and treat obstetric fistula and assist women who have a fistula regain their health and...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    As we reflect back on the global health stories that made the news in 2010—and some that didn’t—here are 11 top stories we will be following in 2011. Health worker migration: WHO’s unprecedented stand on recruitment In 2010, we celebrated the World Health...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    Open source and mobile technologies: need rigorous review and documentation to scale up As Kate Otto notes in her Huffington Post blog on “ a prediction of global health prosperity for 2011 ,” several technologies have been “created, tested, piloted and evaluated in the...

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  • Global Health: 11 to Follow in 2011

    Family planning:  Happy Birthday, Pill! In 2010, “the pill” turned 50, providing the opportunity to reflect on the history and importance of family planning.  Birth Control Pill Turns 50: 7 Ways It Changed Lives , in US News and World Report, acknowledged that...

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