Posts Tagged ‘maternal and newborn health’
Webinar: It's Time to Deliver: Including Pregnant and Lactating Women in Clinical Research
Organized by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Treatment Action Group, and WHRC 2 PART WEBINAR: It’s Time to Deliver: Including Pregnant and Lactating Women in Clinical Research
Read MoreGHC NEWS FLASH: GLOBAL HEALTH ROUNDUP 5/15/2017
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States Report Released The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics is releasing a report today on Global Health and the Future Role of the United States. In the report, the project committee makes the case for global health in light of current and emerging world…
Read MoreEquity: A platform for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and promoting human rights
This guest blog was written by Cesar Victora, Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Kate Somers, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Improved data makes inequalities visible. Take for example the lives of two Nigerian girls—let’s call them Fara and Abimbola—who were born one month apart. Fara was…
Read MoreCreating Demand for and Quality of Emergency Obstetric Care in a Fragile State Context: The case of Kuajok hospital in South Sudan
By Alfonso Rosales, MD, MPH-TM, World Vision, MNCH senior advisor and Juli Hedrick, MPH, World Vision Health Team, senior program management specialist. Early Easter morning, Paska and Esther, twin girls, were born in Kuajok, the capital of Warrap State, South Sudan. Their country is a perfect storm for poor maternal health, with one of the lowest…
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