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Organizations Working in Maternal and Newborn Health
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Association of Maternal Child Health Programs (AMCHP)
—The AMCHP website contains information on their partnerships and services to improve the health of women, children, youth, and families, including those with special healthcare needs.
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Averting Maternal Death and Disability
—AMDD’s website highlights their work and partnerships worldwide to help strengthen national health systems to make pregnancy and childbirth safer.
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CARE
—CARE’s website highlights their efforts in fighting poverty across the globe, through advocacy campaigns, programs, emergency relief, and providing access to basic human services.
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Countdown to 2015
—The Countdown to 2015 Initiative website tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality.
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EngenderHealth
—The EngenderHealth website outlines their efforts to improve the quality of healthcare in the world’s poorest communities. The site includes links to its programs, partnerships, and resources pertaining to family planning, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, gender equity, and other related topics.
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Every Mother Counts
—The Every Mother Counts website features the documentary film by Christy Turlington Burns focused on at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world. The website also provides information maternal health and maternal mortality, as well as ways to become involved with their organization.
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Family Care International (FCI)
—FCI’s website provides publications on maternal healthcare around the world. Their focus is on high burden countries that largely lack access to high-quality healthcare services for women.
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Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)
—The GAPPS website highlights their advocacy efforts to prevent prematurity and stillbirth. Their mission is to lead a collaborative, global effort to increase awareness and accelerate innovative research and interventions that will improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes.
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The Grandmother Project
—The Grandmother Project’s website highlights the unique steps they have taken to improve the health and well being of women and children around the world. The site features the different approaches they take in addressing health issues through partnerships with grandmothers and communities.
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Healthy Newborn Network
—The HNN website provides opportunities for maternal and newborn health advocates around the world to connect and collaborate on a vast range of health-related topics.
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International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)
—FIGO’s website provides information and resources for obstetricians and gynecologists. Their purpose is to promote the wellbeing of women and to raise the standards of practice in OB-GYN.
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Jhpiego
—Jhpiego’s website highlights their efforts to engage front-line healthcare workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions to strengthen the delivery of healthcare services.
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MAMA: Motherhood Around the Globe
—Presented by The International Museum of Women, MAMA explores stories of contemporary motherhood through photography, multi-media art, videos, and ideas from global thought leaders.
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March of Dimes
—The March of Dimes website features tools to help raise awareness to premature birth, as well as provides resources to help prevent and treat premature births.
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Marie Stopes International (MSI)
—MSI’s website outlines all of the sexual and reproductive health services they provide to both women and men around the world.
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Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF)
—MHTF’s website is a forum dedicated specifically to promoting maternal health, while reaching out to leaders from allied fields – including neonatal, child, and reproductive health.
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mHealth Alliance
—mHealth Alliance’s website highlights efforts by organizations to deliver health services through mobile-based or mobile-enhanced solutions.
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mothers2mothers
—The mothers2mothers’ website provides background on their programs and services to reduce the number of babies born with HIV and help women access medical care for themselves, and their families.
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ONE
—ONE’s website highlights their grassroots advocacy effort to accelerate awareness of extreme poverty and preventable diseases in poverty-stricken countries, especially in Africa.
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PATH
—PATH’s website provides information on PATH’s mission and programs, as well as information on their involvement in the promotion of maternal and child health.
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RESULTS Educational Fund
—RESULTS’s website highlights the organization’s efforts to create long-term solutions to poverty, through their support of programs that address the root causes of poverty.
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Saving Newborn Lives
—The Saving Newborn Lives website breaks down the many ways advocates of MNCH can work towards improving the wellbeing of newborns around the world.
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The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
—The Partnership’s website contains useful res
ources for improving maternal, newborn and child health, and highlights partner organizations work.
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UK Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE)
—CMACE’s website provides information on their work to monitor and improve health services in the UK for mothers and their children. They are an independent non-profit.
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services–Maternal and Child Health Bureau
—The U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau website provides information on the programs and services the bureau provides to support maternal and child welfare in the U.S.
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U.S. National Institute of Health–National Child & Maternal Health Education Program (NCMHEP)
—The NCMHEP website serves as a portal for the public to learn more about the program, as well as actions the program is taking to provide a forum for reviewing, translating, and disseminating new research in the field of maternal and child health.
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White Ribbon Alliance
—WRA’s website provides information on the 148 members within the alliance that take actions and spread messages on safe motherhood within families, communities, governments, and countries.
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World Health Organization–Maternal Health
—WHO’s Maternal Health page showcases resources to help combat ill-health and morbidity among pregnant women.
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Women Deliver
—Women Deliver’s website provides resources on the facts and figures pertaining to maternal health, and the costs of providing sexual and reproductive health in developing countries.
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World Vision
—World Vision’s website highlights several ways donors can become involved, including sponsoring a child, donating funds to emergency relief, or becoming involved in the organization’s advocacy efforts.
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