For many women around the world, pregnancy is a time of joy, but it can also be a time of confusion and fear. Whether it is the common cold or something potentially more concerning, like pre-eclampsia, women are often faced with uncertainty and even confusing...
WHO publishes for the first time a set of dedicated regulatory guidelines for national medicines authorities in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to evaluate and set quality standards for oxytocin, an essential maternal health drug used for the prevention and...
As part of the ACCELERATING INNOVATION FOR MOTHERS (AIM) project, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we published the report “Medicines for Pregnancy Specific Conditions: Research, Development and Market Analysis”. It provides the current...
In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Concept Foundation is engaging with key stakeholders in the pharmaceutical industry and public health field to assess the interest in establishing a Research Consortium including donors, manufacturers,...
Introducing a new series on intrapartum care in the journal Best Practice and Research in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Concept CF Executive Director A. Metin Gülmezoglu discusses the importance of respectful care and how care during childbirth needs to be...
New beginnings @ConceptFNDN When I started working on the heat stable carbetocin project in 2012 at the Special Programme of Research on Human Reproduction (HRP), a public private partnership between WHO/HRP, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and MSD for Mothers I was...
Access to quality magnesium sulfate and implementation of guidelines can help reduce maternal deaths due to preeclampsia. When a mother dies, the impact of her death reaches much further than the individual tragedy. It affects the life and health of the family,...
Appropriate Storage and Management of Oxytocin - a Key Commodity for Maternal Health
We are pleased to share the announcement of the results of the clinical trial comparing heat stable carbetocin and oxytocin in prevention of postpartum haemorrhage.
Concept Foundation has contributed to the 2018 Maternal Health Campaign. Learn more about the impact of poor quality medicines from key thought leaders.
