Climate change is not just a looming environmental crisis; it is also a significant threat to maternal health, amplifying existing vulnerabilities and inequalities. Pregnant women face heightened risks due to climate-related factors such as extreme heat, tornadoes, volcanoes, droughts, and floods. These risks include increased chances of pregnancy complications such as hypertension and gestational diabetes, potential impacts on fetal development, increased risks to maternal mental health, challenges in accessing healthcare services, and increased vulnerability to displacement and migration. Th ..read more

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in May 2024. Africa: Job Organization Location Temporary Appointment: GBV Sub-Cluster Coordinator, Pemba, Mozambique, P-3 UNFPA Mozambique Deputy Representative, South Sudan, P5 UNFPA South Sudan Chief of Party, USAID/Uganda Urban Health Activity Save the Children Uganda Qualitative Research Consultancy Jhpiego Kenya Transcription and Translation Ser ..read more

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in April 2024. Africa:  Job Organization Location (Country) Deputy Representative, Conakry, Guinea, P-4 UNFPA Guinea Senior Program Manager, Sexual and Reproductive Health CHAI Kenya Program Manager, Pediatric Advanced HIV Disease CHAI Rwanda Senior Associate, HIV Prevention CHAI Malawi Malaria in Pregnancy and Case Management Specialist Jhpie ..read more

Maternal Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccines risk becoming the latest casualty of low vaccine uptake among Black pregnant people in Boston. Last year, the city of Boston hosted over 12,000 Infectious Disease specialists at the annual Infectious Diseases Society of America meeting, celebrating a multitude of breakthroughs in the field, notably the FDA’s approval of maternal RSV vaccines. However, achieving high RSV vaccination rates for Black pregnant people in Boston will require Open Data on the city’s maternal vaccination rates by language and nativity. To demonstrate the significance ..read more

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in March 2024. Africa:  Job Organization Location (Country) Personal Assistant to the Regional Director, WCARO, Dakar, Senegal, G6 UNFPA Senegal Humanitarian Evaluation Specialist, Evaluation Office, Nairobi, Kenya, P-4 UNFPA Kenya Evaluation Capacity Development Specialist, Evaluation Office, Nairobi, Kenya, P-4 UNFPA Kenya Deputy Representative ..read more

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in February 2024. Africa:  Job Organization Location (Country) Chief Nutrition, P-5, FT, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Position #84120 UNICEF Democratic Republic of Congo Associate, SRH Short Term CHAI Sierra Leone Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Advisor Jhpiego Malawi Senior Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor Jhpiego Camer ..read more

Many pregnant people must face the fact that despite strides made in drug development, very few approved drugs have been explicitly studied in pregnant patients, and many pregnancy-related conditions lack approved therapies. Despite this fact, a multi-national study conducted in Europe, North and South America, and Australia found over 80% of their respondents reported using at least one medication (prescribed or over the counter) while pregnant. These data demonstrate that there is wide use of medications during pregnancy, but there remains a lack of evidence-based information regarding dosa ..read more

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in January 2024. Africa:  Job Organization Location (Country) Population Data Adviser, WCARO, Dakar, Senegal, P5 UNFPA Senegal Senior Technical Advisor, Health Informatics & Surveillance, Africa CHAI Senegal Technical Advisor, Health Programs CHAI Sierra Leone Child Health and Malaria Technical officer Jhpiego Rwanda Technical Officer – Mat ..read more

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Here are positions open for applications in December 2023. Africa:  Job Organization Location (Country) Coordinator, Technical Secretariat of the Peace Building Fund UNFPA Burkina Faso International Operations Manager UNFPA Sierra Leone Deputy Representative UNFPA Kenya Technical Adviser, HIV/AIDS UNFPA South Africa Senior Technical Advisor, Health Workforce CHAI Zimbabwe Associate P ..read more

Reproductive abandonment refers to conditions that discourage and inhibit relations of desired reproduction, in its social, biological, infrastructural, and environmental senses. For example, in parts of the world, medical technologies that could facilitate life, birth and reproduction are largely absent or facilitate violence, such as the use of violent practices toward women in labour. Reproductive abandonment speaks to the need for reproductive justice. As Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger define it, “reproductive justice goes beyond the pro-choice/pro-life debate and has three primary princ ..read more