Implementing local and community-led solutions to drive sustainable improvements in maternal health

Upskilling and financially supporting patent and proprietary medicine vendors, or PPMVs, could transform community health in Nigeria. An effort supported by MSD for Mothers shows how investing in PPMVs can strengthen health systems, expand care, and improve maternal health.

By Devex Partnerships

At the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, leaders called for member states to take decisive actions to enhance maternal and newborn health. Here's how proven approaches ...

By Temitayo Erogbogbo, Dr. Rasa Izadnegahdar

World Health Organization's David Clarke explains how investing in governance capabilities contributes to improving health systems performance and long-term overall health system...

By Devex Partnerships

Through a public-private partnership initiative, Nigeria's Delta State has revitalized 15 abandoned health care facilities, improving quality and access to health care in rural communities.

Dr. Ben Nkechika

How can innovation in the private sector be better harnessed to boost maternal health services? IFC's Charles Dalton explains how development partners and governments can drive closer collaboration ...

By Devex Partnerships

Audrey Obara, head of health at Swedfund, explains how Swedfund works with the private sector, the lessons it's learned in doing so when it comes to reproductive, maternal, newborn, child...

By Devex Partnerships

MSD for Mothers' Temitayo Erogbogbo explains why now is the time to create deeper alliances across sectors at scale or risk losing ...

Temitayo Erogbogbo

Amref's Dr. Githinji Gitahi explains why more emphasis should be put on tracking UHC "trend lines" and the private sector's role in achieving them.

Devex Editor

Monique Vledder, head of the secretariat at the Global Financing Facility, discusses how GFF works with countries to engage the private sector...

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Investments in robust quality improvement and certification have built resilience in India's Manyata-certified private maternity health facilities to continue to provide quality health care during...

Indrani Kashyap, Harleen Kaur Sidhu

The World Health Organization's Dr. Anshu Banerjee explains how the institution engages the private sector and its value in bringing about stronger health systems, specifically in the area...

Devex Editor

From big hospitals to small nursing homes, integrated, quality health services are key to positive maternal health.

Devex Editor

Merck and P&E have signed on as founding members of Women Deliver's Business Ally Network to tackle the barriers to gender equality. Here's what that means.

Anna Van Acker, Carolyn Tastad

Last Mile Health's Community Health Academy wants to work with policymakers and community...

Vince Chadwick

Remittances account for three times the global total of foreign aid. Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor, CEO of health consultancy group EpiAFRIC, explains how remittances from the African diaspora could unlock...

Ifeanyi Nsofor

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Experts outline where — and how — the private sector can contribute to achieving universal health coverage.

Carla Kriwet, Githinji Gitahi

This year's Global Washington conference narrowed in on ways that nonprofits can restructure in this period of uncertainty of funding for global health.

Catherine Cheney

At Prescription for Progress, a Devex Bay Area event exploring the hurdles of bringing global health innovations to scale, we caught up with Mark Allen...

Rebecca L. Root, Natalie Donback

Each health sector misstep is a chance for bacteria to become further resistant to antibiotics. "Many of us have contributed to it, and each of us will need to collaborate, as nations, organizations...

Mohan Joshi

A number of efforts are seeking to bring innovation to the blood cold chain, and the most successful ones focus both on technological solutions, and on national health care policy and infrastructure.

Catherine Cheney