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The  International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women kicked off the 1st International Congress of  "Human Rights and Pregnant Women." The event took place in Pau, France on November 25-27.

The USAID Mission in collaboration with TRAction and the Maternal Child Survival Program is seeking avenues to support Tanzania’s Ministry of Health Gender Community Development and Children to advance Respectful Maternal Care (RMC) nationally.

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Cross-Posted from the Maternal Health Task Force Blog. Read more here.

From April 11th-14th, representatives from the TRAction-funded Recognition and Care-Seeking research projects will attend a writing workshop at URC headquarters in Bethesda.  The researchers, hailing from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Indonesia, and India, were directly involved in research development, data collection, analysis, and results dissemination. 

TRAction Project works with partner International Centre for Diarrhoel Disease Research, Bangladesh (iccdr,b) to implement a range of implementation research studies focused on maternal, child health, family planning, nutrition and tuberculosis.

Every year on March 22, we celebrate World Water Day, a day marked by the United Nations as a time to focus attention on the global importance of water. The necessity of water in our daily lives is unquestionable. We drink water. We use water to grow food. We use water to cook food. We clean with water. We use water to create energy. We use water for recreation.

On February 22nd World Vision hosted a dissemination meeting at their Washington, DC office to present findings from their research in Indonesia focused on recognition and care seeking for maternal and newborn danger signs. The meeting convened participants from World Vision, USAID, URC, and JHPIEGO to discuss the findings and implications of the research.

As part of the Collaboration for Implementation Research and Delivery Science (IRDS), TRAction participated in a two-day meeting hosted by the World Bank to discuss and prepare for a Lancet Series of Papers on Implementation Research and Delivery Science (IRDS) to improve health in low and middle income countries (LMICs).