WHAT:
A special Women Deliver pre-event: A Technical Meeting on Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP)
WHEN:
27 May 2013
WHERE:
Kuala Lumpur Conference Center
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
WHY:
12 March 2013
An article co-authored by MCHIP staff has been published in the journal Health Policy and Planning. “Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence of child mortality impact” presents the results of an analysis of 12 community-based projects implemented by nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The projects are funded through USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program to which MCHIP gives technical support.
12 March 2013
By Marion Subah and Nyapu Taylor
Kpaiyea, Liberia—In past years, women who had recently given birth would travel to the small clinic in this rural, hard-to-reach spot in Lofa County, carrying their infants swaddled on their backs. However, if they wanted a family planning method to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, they were often out of luck. It wasn’t customary to offer family planning.
7 March 2013
“An integrative review of the side effects related to the use of magnesium sulfate for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia management,” was published in February in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Co-authored by MCHIP staff, the article describes an integrative review of 24 studies to document the known incidences of severe adverse reactions to magnesium sulfate—the drug of choice for prevention of seizures as part of comprehensive management of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E)—and specific outcomes related to its use.
9 March 2013
In a meeting co-organized by MCHIP, USAID's Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah met with senior Government of India (GOI) officials—as well as those from six States—to discuss follow up actions being planned by the GoI and state governments to move forward the country’s Call to Action for Child Survival.
9 Marcy 2013
In a blog on HNN’s website, MCHIP’s Dr. Magdalena Serpa introduces newly released Spanish language newborn care videos produced by Global Health Media. Aimed at providers and populations in low-resource settings, these videos present critical newborn health information on:
7 March 2013
Maseru, Lesotho—Lesotho’s voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program has reached more than 10,000 Basotho men who have undergone the procedure as part of a comprehensive package of HIV prevention services, Minister of Health Dr. Pinkie Manamolela announced today.
8 March 2013
Dear friends,
This International Women’s Day, we at MCHIP honor those on the frontlines helping women around the world have healthy pregnancies, safe deliveries, and the time necessary to nurture their children and themselves before giving birth again. In addition to handling life-threatening emergencies, midwives and community health workers (CHWs) often provide the regular, routine care that allows women and their families to thrive.
7 March 2013
This month, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) once again brought together the world’s leading researchers to further the understanding, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. From 3-6 March, MCHIP staff joined these colleagues at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta to discuss the latest clinical research, and to present three posters on related Program work.
5 March 2013
On 12 February, Dr. Shirley Villadiego presented on “Programmatic Experience with Oxytocin in the Uniject™ injection system for the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Central America” at the MCHIP DC offices. An MCHIP consultant, Dr. Villadiego has led efforts for field introduction of oxytocin in the Uniject injection system for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the past four years. She also conducts clinical and qualitative research for evaluation of various technologies in immunization and diagnostics.
