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New Report Shows Progress in Maternal Health Care Through Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative

April 2025

Merck Expands Commitment to Maternal Health Through Latest Round of Global Grants

February 10, 2025

New Report on "Improving Maternal Health Across Latin America and the Caribbean"

December 19, 2024

Publication of a Postpartum Hemorrhage Dedicated Open-Access Special Collection in the International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (IJMA)

October 17, 2024

Merck Recognizes Moving Health with 2024 Kenneth C. Frazier Award for Maternal Health Equity for Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality

October 02, 2024

New Report “Improving Maternal Health Across Africa” Highlights the Current Maternity Care Needs in the Region

June 14, 2024

Merck Releases New Report on “Improving Maternal Health Across Europe”

May 23, 2024

Merck Announces Next Round of Global Grants to Improve Maternal Health Care in Africa and the Middle East

May 23, 2024

Merck for Mothers Reaches More than 30 Million Women Worldwide Through Expanded Access to Maternal Health Care

May 8, 2024

Merck Announces New Global Grants to Improve Maternal Health Care in Eastern Europe

March 27, 2024

Merck Debuts New Report Examining How “Transformational Impact” Can Be Made in Maternal Health

May 2, 2023

Merck’s Sixth Round of Global Grants Will Focus on Improving Maternal Health in Latin America

March 7, 2023

Merck’s Sixth Round of Global Grants Will Focus on Improving Maternal Health in Latin America

March 7, 2023

New Research Compendium Evidence for Impact 2022 Launches

December 7, 2022

Thinking Globally to Help Save Mothers Locally: Announcing the launch of the Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth Coalitions

September 21, 2022

Girl Effect announces $1 million commitment from MSD for Mothers to accelerate equitable access to family planning in Kenya

September 19, 2022

The Kenneth C. Frazier Award for Maternal Health Equity

September 14, 2022

Merck Announces Additional $150M Investment Through 2025 to Help End Maternal Mortality Inequities

December 7, 2021

Merck for Mothers Announces First Recipient of Kenneth C. Frazier Award for Maternal Health Equity to Address Disparities in Maternal Health Outcome

September 20, 2021

Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth: A New Global Initiative to Help End Maternal Mortality

September 14, 2021

Merck Announces the Kenneth C. Frazier Award for Maternal Health Equity to Accelerate Progress towards Improved Birth Outcomes for All

June 16, 2021

Merck Expands Safer Childbirth Cities Initiative to 20th Community-Led Project Advancing Maternal Health Equity During Black Maternal Health Week

April 14, 2021

Merck Announces Second Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities Organizations Committed to Improving Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Preventable Maternal Deaths in the US

January 27, 2021

Merck Announces Call for Proposals for Second Cohort of Safer Childbirth Cities, Expanding Maternal Health Support Across US Cities

June 15, 2020

Merck Announces $3M Commitment to Address Critical Maternal Health Needs During COVID-19 Pandemic

April 9, 2020

Merck Announces First Nine “Safer Childbirth Cities” Committed to Reducing Maternal Deaths and Narrowing Disparities in the US

September 10, 2019

Merck Announces “Safer Childbirth Cities” Initiative, Issues Call to Action to Reverse the Rise in U.S. Maternal Deaths

October 1, 2018

Merck Announces Findings from WHO-led Study of Investigational Heat-Stable Carbetocin for Preventing Excessive Bleeding After Childbirth

June 27, 2018

Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Merck Announce Completion of Largest Clinical Trial Ever Conducted in Postpartum Hemorrhage

February 28, 2018

MSD for Mothers Commits $10 Million and Business Expertise to the Global Financing Facility to Help End Preventable Deaths of Mothers

January 19, 2017

Merck, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and the World Health Organization Working Together to Prevent Excessive Bleeding in Women after Childbirth

April 4, 2014

Merck for Mothers Working to End the Tragedy of Women in America Dying in Childbirth and Pregnancy

November 19, 2013

Merck for Mothers Launches Initiative in India to Reduce the Number of Women Dying During Pregnancy and Childbirth

May 14, 2013

Merck Launches Maternal Health Awareness Campaign, Once Upon a Birth, with Actress Melissa Joan Hart

November 29, 2012

New Partnership With U.S. and Norwegian Governments and the Private Sector Formed to Save the Lives of Mothers and Their Newborn Children

July 14, 2012

Merck Announces Collaboration to Improve Maternal Health through Expanded Access to Family Planning

July 11, 2012

Merck for Mothers and PATH Collaborate to Identify Innovations that Save Mothers’ Lives

December 5, 2011

Merck Joins Global Fight to Help Save Women’s Lives During Pregnancy and Childbirth

September 20, 2011

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