Galvanizing Collective Action to Accelerate Reductions in Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Prevention of Stillbirths

Anita Gibson¹, Lisa Noguchi², Mary V Kinney³, Hannah Blencowe⁴, Lynn Freedman⁵, Tlaleng Mofokeng⁶, Mickey Chopra⁷, Queen Dube⁸, David Ntirushwa⁹, Angela Nguku¹⁰, Anshu Banerjee¹¹, Swaraj Rajbhandari¹², Hadiza Galadanci¹³, Martina Lukong Baye¹⁴, Pashtoon Zyaee¹⁵, Lia Tadesse¹⁶, Dalya Eltayeb¹⁷, Aparajita Gogoi¹⁸, Shams El Arifeen¹⁹, Samba Sow²⁰, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye²¹

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¹ AlignMNH Secretariat, Jhpiego, Baltimore, MD, USA. anita.gibson@jhpiego.org.
² AlignMNH Secretariat, Jhpiego, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
⁴ Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ United Nations Human Rights Council on the Right to Health, Commission for Gender Equality, South Africa.
⁷ Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
⁸ College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi.
⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda.
¹⁰ White Ribbon Alliance, Kenya.
¹¹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² Nidan Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal.
¹³ African Center of Excellence in Population Health and Policy, Nigeria.
¹⁴ Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon.
¹⁵ Advisory Board, Afghan Midwives Association, Kabul, Afghanistan.
¹⁶ Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
¹⁷ Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan.
¹⁸ Center for Catalyzing Change, Delhi, India.
¹⁹ icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
²⁰ Center for Vaccine Development, Bamako, Mali.
²¹ Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana.

PMID: 33875488
PMCID: PMC8324194
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00575

Galvanizing Collective Action to Accelerate Reductions in Maternal and Newborn Mortality and Prevention of Stillbirths

Anita Gibson et al. Glob Health Sci Pract. 2021.

. 2021 Jun 30;9(2):268-273.

doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00575. Print 2021 Jun 30.

Authors

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¹ AlignMNH Secretariat, Jhpiego, Baltimore, MD, USA. anita.gibson@jhpiego.org.
² AlignMNH Secretariat, Jhpiego, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
⁴ Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ United Nations Human Rights Council on the Right to Health, Commission for Gender Equality, South Africa.
⁷ Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
⁸ College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi.
⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda.
¹⁰ White Ribbon Alliance, Kenya.
¹¹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹² Nidan Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal.
¹³ African Center of Excellence in Population Health and Policy, Nigeria.
¹⁴ Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon.
¹⁵ Advisory Board, Afghan Midwives Association, Kabul, Afghanistan.
¹⁶ Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
¹⁷ Federal Ministry of Health, Khartoum, Sudan.
¹⁸ Center for Catalyzing Change, Delhi, India.
¹⁹ icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
²⁰ Center for Vaccine Development, Bamako, Mali.
²¹ Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana.

PMID: 33875488
PMCID: PMC8324194
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00575

Abstract

With less than 10 years remaining to achieve the sustainable development goals, there is an urgent need for collective action to accelerate progress for maternal and newborn health and prevention of stillbirths. We outline a new global initiative, AlignMNH, designed to create opportunities to better align efforts and drive improvements.

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