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At the Integration of Maternal and Newborn Health Care technical meeting, Nosa Orobaton gave this presentation for Nafisatu Omar, who couldn’t attend the meeting. Orobaton gave a “reality check” on the challenges facing providers of maternal and…

The Ethiopian government began its Health Extension Worker (HEW) Programme in 2003. By training young women with at least some schooling to provide basic health services to their communities, the Federal Ministry of Health hoped to improve access to…

The Lady Health Worker (LHW) Programme began in 1994 to reduce poverty and improve health. With 110,000 LHWs across the country, Pakistan has one of the largest cadres of community health workers in the world. Each LHW has a catchment area of about 1,000…

This guide has a two-fold purpose: To address programming gaps in the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in maternal health services To increase the capacity of maternal health providers and community-based providers…

Guineans and international observers alike were shocked by the political violence, including brutal rapes, perpetrated on September 28, 2009, following a political demonstration in a stadium in Conakry. The response at the time of the incident was…

One of the strategies that hospitals, clinics and other health care facilities are using to reduce maternal death and disability is quality improvement. By assessing the quality of their maternity care services and using the assessment results to improve…