Malnutrition is one of the most neglected health problems globally. MCSP is working to combat this by integrating nutrition across the health platform: in maternal, newborn, child and reproductive health. […]
Category: Blog
March 8th: Making the Status of Women and Girls a Priority
Bettering the welfare of women is a sound investment, and empowering them is improving communities and nations the world over. […]
A Girl’s Big Dreams Lead to a Midwifery Career in Pakistan
On International Women’s Day, MCSP honors midwives like Lateefan Chandio, who are providing essential care and health services around the world. […]
USAID Impact blog highlights MCSP work to save lives from Ebola
After surviving the deadly disease, Guinea’s Dr. Diallo is using new infection prevention and control skills learned from MCSP to protect others. […]
MCSP on Global Moms Challenge – “Condoms: a practical history of prevention”
This Valentine’s Day, improve your condom knowledge with our annotated history of this simple invention that has protected people from disease and unwanted pregnancy for hundreds of years. […]
MCSP on Gates: Saving Lives with Better Gestational Age Estimation
Complications from prematurity are now the number one cause of death in children under five. While great strides have been made in reducing deaths from infectious causes—such as pneumonia, diarrhea and measles—progress has been slow in improving outcomes from preterm birth. […]
USAID Features MCSP blog – “You Can’t Save Lives if you Don’t Fight Pneumonia”
Since passing the 500 day countdown in August, the global public health community has talked a lot about what it will take to meet the ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). And one thing is clear: achieving MDG 4 – to reduce child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 – will not be realized without better addressing pneumonia, the leading killer in children under 5. […]
mMentoring in Ghana: Innovative use of technology improves midwifery care
At USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), led by Jhpiego, we believe that mHealth is a key mechanism for transforming health outcomes throughout the developing world. […]
Brief from the Antenatal Corticosteroids Technical Working Group
The UN Commission of Life Saving Commodities Antenatal Corticosteroids Working Group has released a statement on antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) to accelerate fetal lung maturation in threatened preterm birth. […]
