Lydia Airede from MCHIP/Nigeria presented at the 38th Annual International Conference on Global Health in Washington, DC on accessibility and quality of care for emergency obstetric care in the states of Kano and Zamfara Nigeria. The ACCESS and MCHIP programs implemented the full spectrum of the household-to-hospital continuum (HHCC) of care and found:

• Improved quality of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) and training health facility staff to use the Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R) approach to quality improvement
• Health facility interventions improved proportion of births at EmONC facilities, ‘met need’ for EmONC and the proportion of births by Caesarean section
• Maternal mortality ratios fell significantly in many project facilities

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