Maternal & Child Health

October 22, 2010
Mobilizing Religious Leaders to Increase Men's Involvement in Reproductive Health and Family Planning

Elsie Minja-Mwaniki
JHU∙CCP | Communications Specialist

On October 8^th 2010, I attended the 10^th annual Global Health USAID Mini University at the George Washington University along with hundreds of other health professionals and global health students.

I was particularly captivated by a session that discussed an initiative that mobilized and collaborated with Muslim scholars to increase men’s involvement in reproductive health and family planning at the community level. Men’s involvement in maternal and newborn health is critical to reduce deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth, especially in countries where women’s health care decisions, such as determining family size or timing of pregnancies, are heavily influenced by their husbands.

Heather Sanders, a program officer from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, spoke about an initiative in Pakistan – a country where one woman dies every hour from pregnancy or childbirth – called Ulama which aimed to increase knowledge and motivate health care-seeking by men for pregnant women and children.

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October 04, 2010
Saving the Lives of 16 Million Women and Children Over the Next Five Years, Yes We Can!

Vanessa Mitchell
JHU∙CCP | Technical Advisor

A panel of experts recently convened during the United Nations summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to discuss the issues facing women and children around the world and advocate for more financial support and political commitment to accelerate progress on maternal and child health.

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September 24, 2010
Empowering Women to Empower Societies to Achieve the MDGs

Tara Sullivan
JHU∙CCP | Deputy Director

If you had to choose one MDG to prioritize above any other, which one would you choose? Would you choose to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger? Achieve universal primary education? Promote gender equality and empower women? Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases? Or focus on developing a global partnership for development?
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September 22, 2010
Elevating the Cause for Women and Children, a Race Against Time

Chris Rottler

United Nations Secretary‐General Ban Ki‐moon and Heads of State and Government, as well as other stakeholders announced the launch of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, a $40 billion effort to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by 2015.

The Global Strategy, led by the UN Secretary‐General, lays out an approach for global collaboration that will identify the policy changes needed as well as critical interventions that have been proven to improve the health of women and children.

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August 17, 2010
The Global Health Initiative: Making Up for Lost Time in Family Planning

Chris Rottler

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday spoke at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) about the Global Health Initiative (GHI), which she described as a “new approach, informed by new thinking […] to save the greatest possible number of lives.”
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Maternal & Child Health

Mobilizing Religious Leaders to Increase Men's Involvement in Reproductive Health and Family Planning

Elsie Minja-Mwaniki

Saving the Lives of 16 Million Women and Children Over the Next Five Years, Yes We Can!

Vanessa Mitchell

Empowering Women to Empower Societies to Achieve the MDGs

Tara Sullivan

Elevating the Cause for Women and Children, a Race Against Time

Chris Rottler

The Global Health Initiative: Making Up for Lost Time in Family Planning

Chris Rottler

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Elsie Minja-Mwaniki

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Lisa Mwaikambo

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Peggy D'Adamo

Erica Nybro

David Olson

Lauren VanEnk

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