It wasn’t easy to choose sessions today on the last day of the global maternal health conference 2013, the variety and caliber…
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General Do human rights have a place in maternal health? Day 3 of global maternal health conference 2013
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Access Improving access to information: Day 2 of the global maternal health conference 2013
I had the pleasure today of officially launching the Year 1 Open Access Collection on Maternal Health that PLOS has developed with…
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Global Health Why focus on quality of care? Day 1 of the global maternal health conference 2013
This blog is cross-posted at the Maternal Health Task Force blog. Today in Arusha, more than 700 delegates from around the world…
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Global Health Maternal health is women’s health – new Call for Papers
We are delighted to announce the theme for year 2 of our Maternal Health Collection, a partnership between PLOS and the Maternal…
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Collections No More Guesstimation: How to Reliably Estimate Trends in Child Mortality
Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical for monitoring progress toward Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG-4), so I asked Dr. Kenneth Hill…
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Global Health Happy International Women’s Day – two steps forward, one step back?
March 8 is International Women’s Day and several global health organizations and advocates are celebrating the achievements of their women colleagues, but also…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Janani Suraksha Yojana — the Indian way of improving maternal and child health
After a brief visit to New Delhi, I want to share some of the insights I have gleaned from maternal and child…
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Collections Call for Papers: Quality of maternal health care
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership between PLoS Medicine and the Maternal Health Task Force that will assemble a Collection…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Child deaths have fallen rapidly since 1990 but not enough
A new report released this morning by UNICEF and WHO says that deaths among children under 5 years of age between 1990…
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General Can We Count on Global Health Estimates?
This blog by Jocalyn Clark is cross-posted from the Healthy Newborn Network, an international resource that connects advocates around the world and…
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Maternal Newborn and Child Health Time to Deliver: Series on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in sub-Saharan Africa
In June PLoS Medicine launched a series on maternal, newborn and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. Two Policy Forums and an Editorial…