1 February 2012

The video below highlights the Healthy Fertility Study, an integrated, community-based family planning (FP)/maternal and newborn health service delivery program. Since 2007, community health workers have been helping women in Sylhet district, Bangladesh avoid unplanned pregnancies as part of the Study.

31 January 2012

Voahangy had just given birth to her second child, but the bleeding would not stop. Luckily she had chosen to have her baby girl at the busy private health facility run by nuns in Mahajanga, in North Western Madagascar, where an average of 4–5 babies are born per day. Even more fortunate, the nun who assisted her during the birth, Sister Lydie, was a seasoned midwife who had just attended an MCHIP training covering how to help women who experience complications during childbirth.

Catherine Carr, MCHIP's Senior Maternal Health Advisor, discusses the value of balancing cultural respect and increased facility care to improve maternal health outcomes at the community level.

Read her blog here, posted to the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood website. 

 

26 January 2012

In early January, high-level USAID and other United States government officials visited MCHIP project sites in Bangladesh to meet the men and women who are benefitting from Program activities.

The video below from MCHIP partner Jhpiego highlights the organization’s Mother-Daughter Initiative, which integrates HPV vaccination for young girls into already successful screening and treatment programs for mothers.
 

What: Presentation on "Scaling up CCM in Rwanda, the Experience and Contributions of a USAID/CSHGP Expanded Impact Project"

When: Thursday, January 26th from 3:00 - 5:00 pm

18 January 2012