India
Given the well-documented lack of nurses and midwives in India’s public health sector who are qualified and sanctioned to deliver a complete package of maternal/newborn and child health care, MCHIP is collaborating with the Indian Nursing Council to strengthen and expand PSE for auxiliary nurse-midwives (ANMs). In addition, the Program will work to upgrade clinical training capacity in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. This work will build national and state-level ability to increase access to SBAs by women who would ordinarily not be able to benefit from their care.

Senegal
USAID-funded programs in Senegal have a long history of supporting improved maternal, newborn and child health programs. While progress has been made in decreasing under-five mortality, maternal and newborn mortality have fallen at much slower rates. Thus, MCHIP will conduct an assessment to identify key elements of previous maternal health programs to date via a desk review of available policies and documents as well as visits to sites that have implemented programs to ascertain successes, gaps and lessons learned. An important area of focus will be how midwives, nurse and doctors were trained in the use of high-impact interventions and utilized in these programs. Findings from the assessment will be used to inform national policy and programmatic decision-making that can be shared with other countries striving to reach MDG Goals 4 and 5.