10 April 2013 A friendly cricket match organized by the MaMoni Project helped to raise 100,000 Bangladeshi Taka to help treat at least 10 rural mothers who experience complications at delivery. Captain of Bangladesh’s National Cricket Team, Mushfiqur Rahim, participated in the match. As a Maternal and Newborn Health Brand Ambassador for MCHIP in Bangladesh, Rahim volunteers his time to the Program to promote health awareness messages focusing on mothers and newborns.
26 March 2013 “Voluntary medical male circumcision and adolescents: An opportunity for nurses to contribute to an HIV-free generation,” was published in the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society HIV Nursing Matters Magazine this month. Co-authored by MCHIP staff, this article makes the case that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services—which target healthy, HIV-negative males, especially adolescents—provide an important opportunity for provision of preventive health services with this population.
11 February 2013 Shahnaz Munni, MCHIP’s Maternal and Newborn Health Ambassador and well-known journalist, traveled to MaMoni project sites in Habiganj this month. The MaMoni project is a USAID associate award to the MCHIP Program, and is being implemented by Save the Children and two local nongovernmental organizations (Shimantik and FIVDB). It is an integrated safe motherhood, newborn care, and family planning project.
11 February 2013 India’s Child Survival and Development Summit began Thursday in Mahabalipuram, India, and continued through Saturday. Organized by the Indian Government in collaboration with USAID and UNICEF, the Call to Action Summit brought together Ministers, private sector leaders, and representatives from academia and funding agencies to continue work begun in June 2012, when India co-convened the Global Call to Action on child survival with Ethiopia and United States. At that time, more than 700 leaders from around the world came together to commit to reducing child deaths to 20 per 1,000 births or less by 2035.
7 February 2013 Today, K4Health cross-posted a blog originally published on the Gates Impatient Optimists site on 8 January 2013 by MCHIP's Senior Reproductive Health Family Planning Advisor, Holly Blanchard, and Senior Program Coordinator, Elizabeth Sasser.
6 February 2013 The US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dan Mozena, visited the Shibpasha Union Health and Family Welfare Center in Ajmiriganj Upazila of Habiganj District, a MaMoni project site. This USAID associate award to the MCHIP Program is being implemented by Save the Children and two local nongovernmental organizations (Shimantik and FIVDB). It is an integrated safe motherhood, newborn care, and family planning project.
8 January 2013 This year, 222 million women worldwide will have an unmet need for modern contraception. And as more women are encouraged to deliver in facilities, there is greater opportunity for immediate postpartum  intrauterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) services. 
26 December 2012 Today, Bangladesh's online bdnews24.com said: "The Health and Family Welfare Minister on Wednesday floated the idea of engaging schoolgirls in identifying pregnant women in rural Bangladesh to ensure safe births."
27 December 2012 To uplift the services dedicated to rural health and to strengthen GO-NGOs partnership, MaMoni project in Habiganj district could be one of the role models for the other parts of the country. To read the full piece that ran in Bangladesh's "The Independent" newspaper, click here.
Renowned Bangladeshi singer Samina Chowdhury’s continues to bring attention to MCHIP’s work as the Program's Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH) Ambassador. Click here to watch Samina discuss her work with MCHIP on the talk show "After Thoughts."