How a simple surgery to heal a childbirth injury turned a Rwandan woman’s life around. […]
Claudine’s Story: From Tragedy to Tea Shop
Writer: Maternal Health
Postnatal Care, with a Focus on Home Visitation
Since 2008, considerable attention has been given to testing community-based strategies involving postnatal home visitation (PNHV) in low-income, high newborn-mortality country settings. A number of countries have made efforts to implement such programs at scale and lessons are now accruing on these program experiences. However, also over this period, many countries (including those that have […]
Policy Change to Advance Scale-Up of High-Impact Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Interventions
This four-page brief focuses on MCSP work in developing or updating reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health policies, and the impact these policies will have in expanding coverage of key interventions globally and within Program countries. […]
District Partnerships Enhance Community Participation for RMNCH in Rwanda
MCSP is engaging communities and strengthening the ability of its members to work together to address social and health concerns. […]
Making healthcare affordable: Women’s savings and loans clubs to the rescue
One reasons pregnant women shun health facilities is the inability to pay for needed healthcare services. In Nigeria, MCSP is working to change that. […]
Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of Community Health Investments in Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health
This cost and cost-effectiveness brief aims to broadly summarize existing information on the costs and cost-effectiveness of community-delivered reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health interventions, including large-scale community health worker programs, to provide health decision-makers and planners with a baseline understanding of the types of costs associated with providing these services. To support efforts to […]
It takes a village and data: Using routine health information to ensure safe, institutionalized births in Mozambique
Communities that are invested in the health of their members are more resilient and able to problem solve to maintain improvements in their health outcomes. […]
Improving Equitable Access to Lifesaving Maternal Health Care in Rural Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, there has been a remarkable – but inequitable – shift in cultural norms from delivering babies at home to delivery at health facilities. […]
Threatened Preterm Birth Care Learning Resource Package
Threatened Preterm Birth Care is part of the Helping Mothers Survive and Helping Babies Survive suite of training modules. It is a two-day course designed for teams of health workers who provide care for women and newborns. The content is based on the 2015 WHO recommendations on interventions to improve preterm birth outcomes and focuses […]
Community-Based Maternal Health Care: Meeting Women Where They Are
All women deserve respectful, culturally sensitive, women-centered care that takes into account how, where and with whom they want to receive maternal health care. […]
