MCSP and Save the Children, together with several Nigerian professional associations, set out to document experiences to date in implementing maternal death review, perinatal death review, and/or integrated maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) processes in Nigeria. The study sought to identify factors that have facilitated or inhibited the uptake and sustainability of […]
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In 27 countries, we’re using targeted interventions – before and during pregnancy, at delivery, and after birth – to prevent maternal and child deaths, including those resulting from preterm birth. […]
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This summary brief highlights key messages from the updated World Health Organization’s recommendation on tranexamic acid (TXA) for the treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), including policy and program implications for translating the TXA recommendation into action at the country level. In 2012, WHO published recommendations for the prevention and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage, including a […]
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Vaccine hesitancy constitutes a major threat to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), and to further expansion of routine immunisation. Understanding hesitancy, leading in some cases to refusal, is vital to the success of GPEI. This article explains the method, findings and conclusions to a recent study in northern Nigeria that sought to understand factors at household and community level […]
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In Kenya, failure to complete immunization schedules by children who previously accessed immunization services is an obstacle to ensuring that children are fully immunized. Home visit approaches used to track defaulting children have not been successful in reducing the drop-out rate. This study tested the use of phone contacts as an approach for tracking immunization defaulters in […]
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To promote better understanding of and adherence to the 2012 WHO IPTp-SP recommendations, MCSP developed the Toolkit to Improve Early and Sustained IPTp Uptake. The Toolkit was developed by MCSP’s Maternal Health and Malaria teams, in collaboration with the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). It consists of a job aid (poster); a technical summary; a PowerPoint […]
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To promote better understanding of and adherence to the 2012 WHO IPTp-SP recommendations, MCSP developed the Toolkit to Improve Early and Sustained IPTp Uptake. The Toolkit was developed by MCSP’s Maternal Health and Malaria teams, in collaboration with the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). It consists of a job aid (poster); a technical summary; a PowerPoint […]
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For millions of women, lack of economic independence can mean more than a life of poverty – it can be a matter of life or death. […]
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Thirteen million adolescents will give birth this year. And their challenges will only begin with delivery. […]
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This review of routine Health Management Information Systems (HMIS) maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) content across 24 countries can help country and global stakeholders understand which MNCH indicators can be currently calculated using data available in routine information systems. Data gaps identified by the review can help inform revisions to facility registers (and patient […]
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