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Zanzibar tests new financing model to improve antenatal care

Zanzibar is testing a health financing model that uses targeted funding and digital tracking to keep poor and high-risk pregnant women in care as the government works towards a mor...

Kenyan mothers die by the hundreds in childbirth as health care remains weak

Kilifi County in Kenya saw 532 mothers die for every 100,000 live births while the national average was 355 deaths, according to the latest government data in 2022.

One simple addition to postpartum care made a major difference

New mothers paired with patient navigators were much more likely to receive postpartum care, depression screening, preventive testing, and ongoing primary care. By helping with bar...

MedCity FemFwd: How Midwives Can Support the Maternal Health Crisis

In this episode, we’re joined by Amanda Shafton, practicing CNM and national director of midwifery at Ob Hospitalist Group. We discuss the benefits of physician/midwifery collabora...

After a premature birth, North Texas mom found help. Now state invests $4 million in maternal health program

A North Texas program designed to improve outcomes for mothers and babies is getting a big bump from the state. The Maternal Health Accelerator (MHA), a coalition created to add...

Maternal health advocates await key Texas report on pregnancy-related deaths

Abide Women’s Health Services says up-to-date information about pregnancy-related and maternal deaths can be critical to preventing future deaths. “They can have education, inco...

Tatyana Ali Talks About Improving Maternity Care For Black and Indigenous Mothers

Tatyana Ali has become a leading voice for maternal health equity.

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America pledges $100M to cut US maternal mortality rate in half

Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the U...

Maternal vaccines protect babies from serious infections, but unequal access limits benefits across Europe

Europe must act now to strengthen maternal vaccination during pregnancy and ensure all women and babies can benefit from a new generation of vaccines to protect against serious inf...

Mahama government launches five-year plan to tackle Ghana’s maternal health crisis

The government has launched a five-year multisectoral initiative to address persistent gaps in maternal and newborn healthcare, with a focus on emergency referrals, transport, staf...

Walmart heir Olivia Walton didn’t get the postpartum care she needed. Now, she’s investing $100M to halve the U.S. mater...

Olivia Walton, who founded Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, is using “every tool in the toolbox” to improve maternal health—and called on employers to ramp up their benefits.

Doulas Are Jumping Through “A Lot of Hoops” To Serve Medicaid Clients

Doulas Are Jumping Through “A Lot of Hoops” To Serve Medicaid Clients Doula Care Improves Maternal and Child Health and is Cost-EffectiveDoulas are non-medical professional...

Call for joint action to curb maternal deaths

Tanzania has called on African countries to strengthen cooperation, increase investment in maternal healthcare and improve access to essential medicines and equipment to reduce dea...

Why Governments Are Ignoring The Issue Of Maternal Deaths

Despite large-scale programmes and the availability of the necessary technology to prevent maternal deaths, India's Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has not declined significantly. T...

Maternity care improvements linked to fewer stillbirths and newborn deaths in sub-Saharan Africa

A combination of training, quality improvement and leadership support in hospitals across four countries in sub-Saharan Africa is linked to fewer stillbirths and deaths among newbo...

Why must fourth trimester care begin after delivery?

Throughout pregnancy, clinicians carefully monitor a woman’s health. Vitals are obtained, laboratory testing is performed, growth is monitored, and complications are identified. Th...

Midwives: The Workforce That Will Determine Maternal and Newborn Survival and Africa’s Future

NEW YORK / ADDIS ABABA, September 7 (IPS) - Tonight, thousands of women across Africa will give birth. Whether they survive to see daylight will largely depend on where they live,...

Public Health Begins With Listening: Lessons From Zambia and Malawi on Reducing Maternal Mortality

In the Zambian districts where it operated, the five-year Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative helped reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 41 percent. Its success relied not on...

FemTech's Real Test- Can Innovation Solve Rural America's Maternal Health Crisis?

Nigerian govt launches incentives to increase use of maternal, newborn healthcare

The health ministry said the incentives are intended to address barriers preventing women and newborns from accessing timely, high-quality, life-saving healthcare services. The pos...

Conference focuses on improving maternal health

Health leaders convened in Youngstown to address maternal health disparities and infant mortality rates while highlighting resources available to expecting families.

Kimambi Dispensary Sees Growth in Maternal Health Services After Partnership With MSF

[Daily News] Lindi -- HEALTH services at Kimambi Dispensary in Liwale District, Lindi Region, have been improved significantly since the facility began collaborating with Médecins...

Hera Women's Health Study Shows MFM-Led Care Model Outperforms County, State, and National Benchmarks

Hera Women's Health announced the publication of a new article in the American Journal of Perinatology describing an MFM-led care model that positions maternal-fetal medicine subsp...

US maternity wards face wave of closures as Medicaid cuts kick in

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ spending cuts will be fully felt next year, but hospitals are already feeling the squeezeMaternity wards across the United States are facing a wave of...