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Burma
Country Overview Funding Began 2013 MCHIP Partners involved Lead Organization: Jhpiego, Partners: Save the Children, PATH

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Country Overview Funding Began 2012 MCHIP Partners involved Lead Organization: JSI, Partner: Jhpiego

Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Testing the Validity of Women's Self-Report of Key Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions during the Peripartum Period in Mozambique
Despite a growing need to track coverage and quality of high-impact peripartum interventions, currently, nationally representative household surveys conducted in low-income settings primarily measure contact with the health system, shedding little light on content or quality of care. This article describes a study to validate the ability of women in Mozambique to report on facility-based care they and their newborns received during labor and up to one hour postpartum.

MCHIP Presents at “Can We Do Better? Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health”
7 May 2013 Today at the National Press Club, The Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) launched of a special issue of PLOS Medicine: “Can We Do Better? Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.”

Tea Garden Laborers in Bangladesh Receive Better Health Care Thanks to MaMoni Project
8 May 2013 Twenty-two-year-old Asholata Mohali and her husband, Apon, are tea garden laborers in Northeastern Bangladesh. Married for four years, they recently had their second child, a healthy baby girl, at a nearby community clinic. Their first child, Roni, who is now three, was not delivered at a clinic—she was born at home with the help of an untrained traditional birth attendant. The difference between the two births, their mother notes, was significant.

Save the Children Releases 14th Annual "State of the World's Mothers" Report
7 May 2013 Today, Save the Children launched the fourteenth annual "State of the World’s Mothers" report. It presents an analysis of new data on the riskiest places to be a mother and the most dangerous day of life. The report also highlights successes in providing mothers and their children with essential care, and the critical need to create mother and baby friendly health systems. Please take a moment to read the report and related materials, as well as the official press release below.

Please Join Us for a Global Symposium on Pre-Eclampsia at Women Deliver!
PRE-ECLAMPSIA 2013: A GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM Monday 27 May 2013 7AM – 4PM Emerald Room, Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur Women Deliver Background:

Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliance (brochure)
Survive and Thrive: Professional Associations, Private Sector and Global Health Scholars Saving Mothers, Newborns and Children is a unique and historic global development alliance (GDA) to improve survival rates for women and children around the world. The alliance will mobilize U.S.
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