Jhpiego Hands Over Cervical Cancer Prevention Equipment to Benefit Women in Tanzania

Sign outside a hospital.

Morogoro, Tanzania—The Cervical Cancer and Prevention Program (CECAP), a Jhpiego initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Mothers and Infants, Safe, Healthy and Alive (MAISHA) Program in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW), has handed-over medical equipment and accessories worth more than $6,300 to benefit

Innovations Team Vying for DevelopmentXChange and Peoples Choice Awards

A health worker checks a pregnant woman's blood pressure.

The U.S. Agency for International Development, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada and The World Bank recently called upon the brightest minds across the globe to identify and scale up transformative prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low resource settings around the time

Global Partners Stand Behind Global Standards for Midwifery

Midwifery students in a classroom.

Durban, South Africa—On the last day of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress in Durban, South Africa, global agencies expressed their commitment to work with each other and with ICM to tackle maternal mortality. The UN Population Fund, World Health Organization (WHO), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the International Federation of