The Guardian: Sustainable development goals: why ending child marriage should be a target Ommera Zafar, policy and advocacy officer at Girls Not Brides “…[S]etting a target ‘to end child, early, and forced marriage’ will not just help monitor progress on reducing child marriage globally. It will also help catalyze efforts…

Huffington Post: 289,000 Reasons Why Health Workers Count for Mothers Pape Amadou Gaye, president and CEO of IntraHealth International “…[M]idwives, nurses, doctors, and other health workers can’t do their jobs unless they’re working within a functioning health system — one that ensures everyone has access to high-quality care. … For…

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Myanmar population control law threatens minorities: rights group “Myanmar’s religious and ethnic minorities may be targeted, abused, and suppressed by a proposed population control law which could be a serious setback for the country’s maternal health advances, according to a U.S.-based human rights group…” (Guilbert, 4/22).

News outlets report on a new study on an experimental malaria vaccine published in The Lancet. Associated Press: Malaria vaccine is a letdown but could still reduce cases “The world’s leading malaria vaccine candidate appears to be a disappointment, with final study results showing it doesn’t work very well and…

USAID’s “IMPACTblog”: Vaccinating Each Child to Build a Village Gunjan Taneja and Anjali Vaishnav, consultants for USAID’s Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program in India, recognize World Immunization Week and discuss a tool that helps community health workers track the number of children who are vaccinated in India (4/27).

Foreign Policy: The Starving Children of Helmand Province “…Afghanistan is in the midst of a malnutrition crisis. While numbers are disputed because of the difficulties of surveying diseases in remote areas, the best study available — the U.N.-backed National Nutrition Survey — estimates that more than 500,000 Afghan children under…

Health Affairs Blog: Preventing Maternal Mortality In Developing Countries: History As A Guide For Sustaining Success In a blog post adapted from her book, “A World of Giving: Carnegie Corporation of New York: A Century of International Philanthropy,” philanthropy expert Patricia Rosenfield discusses the successes of the Carnegie Corporation’s maternal…

News outlets report on the State of the World’s Mothers report published by Save the Children. The Guardian: British mothers twice as likely to die in childbirth as Polish women “…The U.K., which has not made the top 10 since 2012, also came behind debt-stricken Greece as well as Spain,…

Huffington Post: First Things First: The Case for Investing in Nutrition for Mothers and Children Rick Leach, president and CEO of World Food Program USA, and Lucy Sullivan, executive director of 1,000 Days “…We can save millions of lives by simply ensuring women are well-nourished before and during their pregnancies,…

News outlets report on a study published in the journal Science showing measles infections can have long-term negative effects on children’s immune systems. Los Angeles Times: Study points to years-long immune system woes from measles “Scientists have known for decades that having measles suppresses kids’ immune systems for several weeks…