health
The Emily Effect
Movement to #EndTheStigma and help raise awareness for moms who suffer from perinatal mood disorders like postpartum depression and anxiety.
maternal health
maternal health
Infamous Mothers
A for-profit business with a social mission to create products and services that revolutionize the way women mother. They sell socially-conscious apparel, produce publications, and lead workshops/classes with one goal in mind. They are hired to speak at institutions and organizations. They train businesses. They do all of this with one goal in mind: to empower mothers…Infamous Mothers.
Africa
A Price Too High to Bear: The Costs of Maternal Mortality to Families and Communities
This new study, undertaken in three sub-counties in Western Kenya, documents the emotional as well as the financial costs of maternal mortality to households in poor remote communities and explores the impact of these costs on family well-being.
health
Childbirth Connection
Founded in 1918 as the Maternity Center Association, Childbirth Connection is now a core program of the National Partnership for Women & Families. For nearly 100 years, they have helped develop and advance many forms of care that are now critical components of the nation’s maternity care system. More recently, they launched a long-term program to promote evidence-based maternity care through policy and quality initiatives.
health
End Maternal Mortality Now (EndMMNow)
A community reporting project that trained women of marginalized communities in a district in Assam to identify and report violations of maternal health rights.
health
No Time to Lose: Fighting Maternal and Infant Mortality through Community Reporting
Highlights the many barriers tea garden workers face when seeking legally guaranteed maternal care and gives recommendations that would immediately reduce maternal mortality in Assam, India.
maternal health
Midwifery Today
Through networking and education, Midwifery Today’s mission is to return midwifery care to its rightful position in the family; to make midwifery care the norm throughout the world; and to redefine midwifery as a vital partnership with women.
Canada
Power to Push Campaign
This campaign encourages women in British Columbia to learn as much as they can and push for the best birth possible.
health
SQUAT Media
A nonprofit organization and former creator of SQUAT Birth Journal, a radical midwifery and birth publication, that was in production from 2010 to 2016 and released 22 issues. SQUAT spent over six years actively creating an open forum publication about a wide range of reproductive health topics and coordinating conferences in San Francisco and New Orleans.
Africa
The State of the World’s Midwifery: Analysis of the Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health Workforce in East & Southern Africa
Provides an evidence base to support policy dialogue at national and regional levels, to assist countries in the region to meet the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals relating to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health (SRMNAH).
