The Latest from our Blog

sharps disposal, needle stick, coke can, medical waste
Yellowone Antivirus Cap leaps over a final hurdle to get to market!
January 28, 2013

The sharps disposal device invented by Han Pham is not only a great device, it has a powerful story behind it. We've been waiting to tell the story for a while! The Yellowone cap was one of the first ten devices featured on the Maternova Innovation Index and as part of that early set it was inspiring to us. At the time we discovered the device it was stuck at a stage that hinders so many entrepreneurial designers-- Han Pham had won a design challenge but could not find a manufacturer who would make fewer than 10,000 at a time. Her design was even featured in a 2005 MOMA exhibit.

Read More
default tag
Freedom is Not Just Another Word
January 21, 2013

January 21, 2013 marks the celebration of Martin Luther King Day in the United States. A visionary whose time was cut short by the madness he was working to eliminate. Dr. King was more than an evangelist for our time. He saw equality, opportunity, and peace as our most basic set of human rights. On April 4, 1968 the man died, but his words and hopes have continued to inspire global citizens determined to realize his dream nearly four decades later.

Read More
default tag
A Cause We Love: One Billion Rising
January 17, 2013

In recent weeks, the news feeds have been flooded with reports of especially heinous crimes against women. Groups mobilizing globally, and in some cases unusually (http://imgur.com/cEAux bravo gentlemen!) in an effort to demand action are lifting their voices in pursuit of a common goal; an end to the violence.

Read More
social enterprise, Maternova, "every woman every child"
Maternova: What drives us to keep building this social enterprise
January 08, 2013

We pause at the start of 2013 to reiterate what drives us in what we do. As you may well know, Maternova is building an online marketplace for technologies and protocols that save the lives of mothers and newborns. We want to remove epic layers of red tape to make it easy for clinicians and researchers to access life-saving technologies. We'd like to make it as easy as click and ship.

Read More
default tag
Some of Maternova's Favorite Big Wins for Women From 2012
January 02, 2013

As we herald in 2013 we pause for a moment to celebrate some of the big accomplishments for women in 2012. We are particularly interested in large national initiatives occurring AT SCALE rather than small pilot projects.

  • Eight countries are on track to meet MDG4 and MDG5 by 2015 and these countries are: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nepal and Vietnam.

  • According to the Countdown to 2015 report, Equatorial Guinea, Nepal, and Vietnam have each cut maternal deaths by 75 percent showing the massive declines are possible.

Read More
Syndicate content

Follow @maternova on Twitter

Stay Connected

Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on tools and maternal health innovations.

Send us an email about a product you've seen or a product that you wish existed! mwirth@maternova.net.

Send us an email about special orders, large volume orders and more: orders@maternova.net