Laerdal Global Health Donates 1,000 Birthing Simulators to Support Major Educational Initiative to Reduce Deaths from Postpartum Hemorrhage, the Worldwide Leading Cause of Maternal Deaths At the 20th FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Rome this week, Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, announced a major new educational program—Helping Mothers Survive. The
Seattle, Washington—Jhpiego’s three low-cost, innovative global health projects designed to help save the lives of women and newborns won top awards this weekend at the prestigious Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development competition. The trio of award-winning projects, including a device engineered through Jhpiego’s partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering
By Ronald H. Magarick London—More than 400 global health experts, government policymakers and business officials packed the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in a monumental show of international support for family planning, pledging $4.3 billion in new funds to meet the contraceptive needs of 120 million women worldwide. Sponsored by the Government of the United
