Maternal Health

A maternity matron holds 2 baby girls, the first children conceived through IVF in Kenya, May 2006. Image: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty

Infertility as a Neglected Disease

This labor and delivery room has no water. CREDIT: Haik Kocharian

Health Care Facilities Are Everyone’s Frontline

A mother at Kakuma District Hospital, Kenya, is happy that her child is HIV-free, thanks to prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. Eric Bond/Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation 2019.

Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Is Creeping Back—Here’s How to Stop It

A mother nurses her newborn at the maternity ward of the Kailahun Government hospital on April 26, 2016, eastern Sierra Leone. Image: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty

Intimate Partner Violence Deters Breastfeeding

A paramedical teacher in Kolkata, India instructs students on how to draw blood. © 2015 Dipayan Bhar, Courtesy of Photoshare

Humility: A Global Health Professional’s Most Important Attribute

Iginia Badillo delivered her child at Huasca Health Center under the care of midwifery interns supported by the FCI program of MSH. Image: Pablo Romo, Courtesy of Management Sciences for Health

Saving Lives at Birth Starts with Quality Care, Everywhere

Meeting surrounding the kickoff for the HelmVit study on schistosomiasis during pregnancy and its effects on the infants immune system (Prof. da Costa is second from left). Image by Eva Arnold

A Neglected Disease, A Lab Researcher, And Real Life

In front of WaterAid's Women Deliver 2019 exhibit booth, WaterAid Malawi Country Director Mercy Masoo holds up a bag with one of their key messages: WASH for everyone.

Mercy Masoo, Leading the Way in WASH and Gender Equality

Cora, a mother who lost who son in an anti-drug raid in the Philippines.

Mothers Coping with Prolonged, Complicated Grief

Closing plenary of Women Deliver 2019

Delivery in Progress: Gender Equality

The Ellavi Uterine balloon Tamponade

Delivering on Innovation for Women's Health

Elvira Miranda lovingly touches the grave of her son, Leover, killed in the Philippines drug wars. Image by Amanda Mustard

Elderly Mothers Bear the Emotional Burden of the Drug War