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Maternal Health – Lessons Learned

Benefits of meeting women's contraceptive needs in Burkina Faso

| 2011
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Guttmacher institute
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: contraceptive usage, maternal health services, abortion, burkina faso
This In Brief describes current patterns of contraceptive use and two hypothetical scenarios of increased use to quantify the net benefits to women and society that would result from helping women avoid pregnancies they do not want.

Considerations for incorporating health equity into project designs : a guide for community-oriented maternal, neonatal, and child health projects

| 2011
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Maternal and child health integrated program (MCHIP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal health services, equality, health policy
This guide was developed to give those who design and implement community-oriented health programs a systematic way of ensuring that equity is incorporated into program designs and that its improvement can be better demonstrated and explained. It focuses on equitable health outcomes.

The U.S. global health initiative and sexual and reproductive health and rights : integration

| 2011
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Center for health and gender equity (CHANGE)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: reproductive health, women's rights, maternal health services, health personnel, health policy
Integration of sexual and reproductive health services is of vital importance for the well-being of women and girls. Lack of integration causes critical gaps that are glaringly obvious because the major cause of maternal mortality and HIV is unprotected sex.

At a crossroads : Sierra Leone's free health care policy : health is a human right

| 2011
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Amnesty international
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, maternal health services, health economics, maternal welfare, health policy, sierra leone
In this report, Amnesty International examines how gaps in monitoring and accountability are undermining the success of the recent health care reforms in Sierra Leone, in particular free access to essential drugs in pregnancy and childbirth.

Integrating communities into the health system : the Takamol project summary review

| 2011
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: U.S. Agency for international development (USAID)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: maternal health services, health programmes, health policy, egypt
The Takamol strategy employed a two-pronged approach of health system strengthening and community capacity building to address the full breadth of the reproductive health service delivery value chain, from supplier to user.
 

About this portal

This information portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents. It shares examples of practical projects and initiatives that have been undertaken to contribute to Millennium Development Goal 5: Improving maternal health, particularly in developing countries. Find your resources in the database.