Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Features Jhpiego’s Work with Pregnant Women

BALTIMORE, MD. (October 1, 2019) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2019 Goalkeepers Report, a yearly compendium of  foundation-supported programs that show progress in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals, highlights Jhpiego’s innovative work in delivering prenatal care to women in group settings and engaging their partners in a family’s health. The Goalkeepers report featured

ECHO Study Results

Health worker discusses family planning with a Tanzanian mother.

ECHO study results released June 13 show three common contraceptives used by women in southern and eastern Africa have no substantial effect on HIV risk.

Zoe Saldana-Perego and Marco Perego-Saldana to Receive Global Humanitarian Award

Two men and two women posing for a photo at an event.

Los Angeles, CA (March 7, 2019)—Jhpiego, an international health nonprofit and Johns Hopkins University affiliate, will honor actress Zoe Saldana-Perego and her husband, artist Marco Perego-Saldana, with the 2019 Visionary Award in recognition of the couple’s outstanding philanthropic efforts to support mothers and newborns. Ms. Saldana-Perego, star of Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek and