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India's maternal health care benefit excludes many women because of parity requirement, Women's eNews reports

Women's eNews examines India's Indira Gandhi Maternity Support Scheme, a health care benefit offering $80 cash assistance to pregnant women older than 18 years and who do not have more than two living children.

24 Oct 2012

CSIS report examines current, planned interventions aimed at improving maternal health

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on Friday released a report (.pdf) titled "Improving Maternal Mortality and Other Aspects of Women's Health," the center reports on its webpage.

8 Oct 2012

Leaders announce expansion of successful maternal, child health program in Tanzania

"Tanzania has made significant advances in cutting maternal deaths thanks to a United Nations-sponsored program that brings public and private sectors together to resolve one of the most stubborn but preventable woes afflicting the developing world," but more must be done to scale up efforts to save lives, leaders involved in the program said during a news conference on Tuesday at U.N. Headquarters, the U.N. News Centre reports.

4 Oct 2012

Maternal deaths among marginalized women could be prevented with access to care, information

"While reports from the United Nations as well as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) indicate that maternal deaths are declining around the world, far too many women continue to die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth," Ana Langer, director of the Women and Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health, writes in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog.

2 Oct 2012

Access to supplies, medicines in developing world essential to improve maternal health

"Supplies -- the essential medicines and medical equipment frontline health workers need to successfully do their jobs -- are a vital part of the solution to saving the lives of mothers and newborns," Catharine Taylor, a maternal health expert with PATH, writes in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog, adding, "And yet, they are frequently overlooked in the ongoing conversation about how to improve maternal health in the developing world."

29 Sep 2012

New partnership to provide access to contraceptives for more than 27M women

A new partnership announced today at the United Nations will make a safe, effective, long-acting, reversible method of contraception available to more than 27 million women in the world's poorest nations.

28 Sep 2012

Integration, country ownership key to improving commodities supply, distribution

Noting the U.N. Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children on Wednesday "released 10 bold recommendations which, if achieved, will ensure women and children will have access to 13 life-saving commodities," Jennifer Bergeson-Lockwood, a maternal health adviser with USAID, writes in USAID's "IMPACTblog" that the agency is working "to integrate systems across commodities to better and more efficiently serve women and children everywhere, and scale up programs to have nation-wide impact."

28 Sep 2012

Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health receives $20 billion in new money

The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health has received about $20 billion in new money, according to a new report from The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH).

28 Sep 2012

U.N. presents plan to improve access to contraception, releases report on maternal, child health

The U.N. on Wednesday "presented a plan to make life-saving health supplies more accessible, while a new report found that, despite impressive reductions in maternal and child mortality in the past decade in some countries, millions of women and children still die every year from preventable causes," the U.N. News Centre reports.

28 Sep 2012

MindChild receives FDA pre-market clearance for MERIDIAN non-invasive fetal heart monitor

MindChild Medical, Inc. today announced that it has received clearance for its Pre-Marketing Notification (510(k)) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its MERIDIAN non-invasive fetal heart monitor.

26 Sep 2012

Women's eNews examines maternal health in Morocco

"Morocco has made great strides in improving maternal health in recent years, decreasing its maternal mortality ratio by over 60 percent since 1990," but "a wide maternal health gap" exists between women in urban and rural areas, where deliveries generally are attended by an experienced yet untrained family member, Women's eNews reports.

26 Sep 2012

U.N. report on MDGs shows declining aid; SG Ban urges increased global partnership

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday "urged a stronger global partnership to advance progress on the development targets world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015, as a new United Nations report finds that significant gains risk slowing due to declining aid," the U.N. News Centre reports.

21 Sep 2012

Blog examines 3 maternal health programs in sub-Saharan Africa

"In developing countries where access to health care during pregnancy can be scarce or grossly underused due to lack of education, financial costs, and proximity to health centers, women die unnecessarily from pregnancy and birth complications," Jennifer James, founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, writes in this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

31 Aug 2012

Despite controversy, WHO not likely to change its stance on misoprostol use

Highlighting a recent report by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine about the use of the drug misoprostol to prevent postpartum hemorrhage and the WHO's inclusion of the drug on its Essential Medicine List, Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley writes in this post in her "Global Health Blog," "Seldom has there been a drug that has excited as much controversy as misoprostol."

27 Aug 2012

Pregnant women who undergo chemotherapy do not appear to increase their baby’s risk of complications

The babies of breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy while pregnant do not appear to be at higher risk of complications, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet Oncology.

16 Aug 2012

Maternal healthcare providers in developing world must be trained to show respect, compassion

"In teaching nurses and midwives in the developing world to care for their patients, a core tenet is that respectful care is quality care," Catherine Carr, senior maternal health advisor for the Jhpiego/MCHIP-Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, writes in this post in Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog.

16 Aug 2012

Maternal obesity and neonatal death: an interview with Dr. Jenny Cresswell

It is important to say that levels of maternal obesity in sub-Saharan Africa are low by global standards, but obesity is projected to increase over the next two decades.

13 Aug 2012

Newborn death risk increases with maternal obesity in sub-Saharan Africa

New research published Online First in The Lancet indicates that babies born to mothers who are overweight or obese in sub-Saharan Africa, where rates of obesity are projected to increase at an alarming rate during the next two decades, are significantly more likely to die in the first two days after their birth. The study is the first to shed light on the role of maternal obesity in neonatal death (during the first 28 days of life) in developing countries.

9 Aug 2012

U.N. urges Philippines to pass reproductive health bill amid protests from Catholic Church

"The United Nations has urged the Philippines to pass a bill that will allow the government to provide free contraceptives," BBC News reports (8/5).

6 Aug 2012

Blog examines impact of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia

As part of its monthly series Stories Behind the Statistics, "guest edited by FHI 360 on behalf of USAID'S IYWG, which provides technical leadership to improve the reproductive and sexual health of young people," the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog features a story by Gaj Bahadur Gurung, program coordinator for the National Federation of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Nepal, who discusses the impact of adolescent pregnancy on girls and young women in South Asia.

6 Aug 2012

Maternal Health News and Research

India's maternal health care benefit excludes many women because of parity requirement, Women's eNews reports

CSIS report examines current, planned interventions aimed at improving maternal health

Leaders announce expansion of successful maternal, child health program in Tanzania

Maternal deaths among marginalized women could be prevented with access to care, information

Access to supplies, medicines in developing world essential to improve maternal health

New partnership to provide access to contraceptives for more than 27M women

Integration, country ownership key to improving commodities supply, distribution

Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health receives $20 billion in new money

U.N. presents plan to improve access to contraception, releases report on maternal, child health

MindChild receives FDA pre-market clearance for MERIDIAN non-invasive fetal heart monitor

Women's eNews examines maternal health in Morocco

U.N. report on MDGs shows declining aid; SG Ban urges increased global partnership

Blog examines 3 maternal health programs in sub-Saharan Africa

Despite controversy, WHO not likely to change its stance on misoprostol use

Pregnant women who undergo chemotherapy do not appear to increase their baby’s risk of complications

Maternal healthcare providers in developing world must be trained to show respect, compassion

Maternal obesity and neonatal death: an interview with Dr. Jenny Cresswell

Newborn death risk increases with maternal obesity in sub-Saharan Africa

U.N. urges Philippines to pass reproductive health bill amid protests from Catholic Church

Blog examines impact of adolescent pregnancy in South Asia

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