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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Routine delivery care practices at facilities are indicators of quality of care. India has promoted facility births through the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) cash…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: While donors commonly introduce innovative practices and technologies to improve health in low-income settings many innovations that are found to be effective are…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 21, 2015 Background: Nomads constitute a hard-to-reach population. Effective Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) is dependent on…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 Preeclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) causes around 40% of maternal deaths in some Nigerian states. Although magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) has been available in Nigeria during the last…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 The success of key interventions for maternal and newborn health depends upon the continuous availability of essential medicines and supplies at health facilities.…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 20, 2015 As part of the Every Woman Every Child movement, the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) for Women and Children has specified magnesium sulfate,…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: There is now broad consensus that health user fees ‘punish the poor and prevent people from accessing life-saving treatment. According to WHO, user fees are ‘the…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Nigeria’s poor reproductive health indices have persisted over the past decade with high maternal mortality ratio (500 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births),…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 In 2014, the Foundation commissioned the Public Health Institute to evaluate the grants it had made to increase community-based access to misoprostol for postpartum…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in Nigeria accounting for a quarter of maternal deaths. In an effort to reduce this burden, the Nigerian…