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Kangu profiled in Spanish blog post
19th March 2015“Did you know that every day, 800 women and 8,000 newborns die because they lack access to basic health services?” asks a Spanish language blog post. “Instead of someone being born, someone dies. Instead of it being a magical day,...
Category: Maternal Health Supplies Caucus
New Innovation Fund grant awarded
19th March 2015The Coalition’s Innovation Fund has just awarded a grant to member association Abt Associates to test and revise Total Market Approaches indicators and develop a tool for assessing government capacity. Total Market Approaches...
Maternal health drugs largely inaccessible to many women
19th March 2015Each year, more than 180,000 women die during pregnancy or childbirth from hemorrhage or pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, write the Population Council’s Saumya RamaRao and Katharine McCarthy in a recent blog post. Many of these deaths can...
Category: Maternal Health Supplies Caucus
Access depends on functional SCM systems
19th March 2015Simply making commodities available is not enough to improve the quality of life for most communities, argues Dr. Lloyd Matowe, the executive director of Pharmaceutical Systems Africa, an international consultancy supporting...
Category: Systems Strengthening Working Group
Who's Holding up Our Pillars: Carolyn Hart
17th March 2015Carolyn Hart’s infectious passion and dedication have created lasting change in the field of reproductive health commodities. She is credited with having coined the phrase “contraceptive security”—modeled on the notion of “food security”—as she worked to gain attention and resources for reproductive health commodities.
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