The video below highlights the Healthy Fertility Study, an integrated, community-based family planning (FP)/maternal and newborn health service delivery program. Since 2007, community health workers have been helping women in Sylhet district, Bangladesh avoid unplanned pregnancies as part of the Study.
The video below from MCHIP partner Jhpiego highlights the organization’s Mother-Daughter Initiative, which integrates HPV vaccination for young girls into already successful screening and treatment programs for mothers.  
On ABC’s 20/20, Diane Sawyer recently highlighted Jhpiego’s low-cost, innovative solutions to address today's global health challenges, such as an easy-to-use pen that screens for a life-threatening pregnancy condition and the community distribution of the drug misoprostol, which prevents women from bleeding to death after birth.
Learn about the power of training community health workers in Rwanda to provide first-line treatment for children under five years old. The video below highlights the work of the Rwanda EIP project. Share it with your friends and colleagues!
Do you know the facts on childhood pneumonia? The fight against this deadly disease can be won. Take a look at this video from The Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia and learn how you can make a difference and save a life. For more information on World Pneumonia Day 2011, click here.
Interested in learning more about e-toolkits? Want to learn about the new e-toolkits coming from MCHIP? Join Julia, Catherine and Stephanie in the MCHIP office for a short introduction to e-toolkits, a sneak peek at a soon-to-be released Jhpiego/MCHIP toolkit for pre-service education and learn more about other MCHIP e-toolkits coming soon. The objectives are: -Identify the ‘elevator speech’ about e-toolkits -Describe the typical e-toolkit development process -Identify three tips for e-toolkit development
Please join Elaine Roman and Aimee Dickerson at the MCHIP office on Wednesday, 3 August at 12pm for a presentation on MCHIP’s documentation of MIP program successes and challenges in three African countries. Across the board, African countries have not yet met the global targets set by Roll Back Malaria (80%) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (85%) for use of malaria in pregnancy (MIP) interventions, most notably Intermittent Preventive Treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) and insecticide treated nets (ITNs).
IRD was awarded an Innovation category grant to implement the Evidence-based Interventions for Improved Nutrition to Reinforce Infant, Child and Maternal Health in Cambodia (ENRICH) project between October 2010 and September 2014 in Boribo Operational District of Kampong Chhnang province, Cambodia.
Ahead of the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York, the charity Save The Children has released a damning report, A Fair Chance At Life, claiming that measures aimed at reducing child deaths have put too much emphasis on better-off communities at the expense of the poorest.