WHO and UNICEF recommendations home visits in the baby’s first week of life to improve newborn survival.
Essential Newborn Care: At a Glance
An article explaining why investments in newborn health are needed.
Pre-Service Education Toolkit
This pre-service education toolkit outlines key programmatic steps, highlights lessons learned, and identifies key resources to assist country programs, donors and governments to develop high-quality and relevant pre-service education interventions. Although targeted for midwives, this toolkit may be used for other cadres as well. To download the toolkit, click here.
Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care: Africa Regional Meeting
The Africa Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care, organized by MCHIP, was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2011.
Muslim Khutbah Guide to Save the Lives of Mothers and Newborns: A Toolkit for Religious Leaders
This guide will help religious leaders understand the dangers faced by mothers and babies and learn what they can do as a religious leader to help save lives. It includes descriptions of problems encountered by mothers, solutions for those problems and sermon starters to help you educate your congregation on safe motherhood practices. (Available in English and French.)
Addis 2011 Speaker Presentations
The 2011 Africa Regional Meeting on Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn care, organized by USAID’s flagship Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), was five days where educational sessions were held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It brought together policy leaders, experienced clinicians and program managers to support accelerated implementation and expansion of maternal and newborn health …
Quality of Care for Prevention and Management of Common Maternal and Newborn Complications: Findings from a National Health Facility Survey in Kenya
This report is on a quality of care (QoC) survey that was fielded as part of ICF Macro’s 2010 Kenya Service Provision Assessment (KSPA) in all eight provinces of the country. The study was conducted in a representative sample of 695 health facilities, of which 509 provided antenatal care services, 207 provided labor and delivery services, and 129 were level 3 facilities …
Malaria In Pregnancy Implementation Guide
This practical guide is intended to help African countries implement and scale up programs to prevent and treat malaria in pregnancy. It was inspired by the WHO/AFRO Strategic Framework for Malaria Control during Pregnancy in the African Region, which presents a systematic approach to program implementation. This guide describes eight essential program components within that approach that are needed to …
A Malaria in Pregnancy Case Study: Zambia’s Successes and Remaining Challenges for Malaria in Pregnancy Programming
This case study contributes to the development of a standardized framework for the analysis of best practices and bottlenecks in MIP implementation. The methodology used consisted of a desk review of secondary data sources, as well as in-depth qualitative interviews. The findings were then analyzed according to the MIP Readiness Scale, a framework developed by Jhpiego and the Malaria Action …
Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection in Adults And Adolescents Recommendations for a Public Health Approach
These guidelines identify the most potent, effective and feasible first-line, second-line and subsequent treatment regimens applicable to the majority of populations, the optimal timing of ART initiation and improved criteria for ART switching, and introduce the concept of third-line antiretroviral regimens.