Maternal Health

Caroline Akello attending to a mother at Loktelabu Health Centre III, Uganda.

Uganda's Overburdened Midwives

Josephine Ilunga (left), a community health worker, works with a young mother and her baby in Tshifumba, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Lualaba province. Photo: Landry-Serges Malaba, Management Sciences for Health

A Single Bracelet Does Not Jingle

Sperm swimming toward egg

Estimating Infertility: Conceiving of a New Approach

Marie Stopes International nurse Eve Chirengwa shows a client a contraceptive implant during a group counselling session.

The Trumped Up Gag Rule and Women's Health

Mother and child at an Upazila Health Complex in Bangladesh. © 2013 Ismail Ferdous, Courtesy of Photoshare

A Not-So-Benign Feeding Ritual: Q&A with Alain Labrique, Maria E. Sundaram