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New groups including industrial designers, entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists are increasingly interested in the power of simple innovations to change lives. Maternova provides a central platform for idea exchange and priority-setting. Add your voice now.

Mapping Facilities

We are hosting an unprecedented effort to map the location of maternal health facilities around the globe.

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You can add one clinic or 20 directly onto the map, include basic information on clinic and staff capability, and then connect to others in nearby or far-flung clinics.

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Latest Innovations

Ob/Gyn Lab in a Backpack

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Sunflower oil to save newborns

5 weeks 5 days ago

Modified Partograph: a graph to monitor progress of labor

6 weeks 2 days ago

Cyclebeads: natural family planning on a necklace

6 weeks 3 days ago

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Detecting pre-eclampsia:a low-cost blood pressure cuff

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Blantyre Hot cots: an innovation story from Kenya to Malawi then Texas to Rwanda and back

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Science and its black boxes

1 week 1 day ago

Shades of red: WHO's hemoglobin color scale

3 weeks 2 days ago

Hilary supports maternal health: cheat sheet

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Maternal health in the news

Day in the life of a midwife in rural Congo in pictures [BBC]

Maternal mortality resolution: Pakistan

Angelique Kidjo & UNICEF in Tanzania

A matter of life and death- Jakarta Post

Latest News

Tanzania: Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School

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Inadequate prenatal care and the risk of stillbirth in the Peruvian Amazon

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EUROCAT - European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies

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Tracking Innovations

We track technologies – simple and complex – from conception through deployment around the globe.

Representative Innovations

Solar powered headlamp for midwives and others by SELCO

Eranger motor bike ambulances

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