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MCHIP Introduces Cutting Edge Tool in Madagascar to Reduce Postpartum Hemorrhage
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.
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US Officials Visit MCHIP Project Sites in Bangladesh to Meet Beneficiaries
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.
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Report Examines Impact of Performance-based Incentives on Improving Maternal Health
11 January 2011 A new report published by USAID’s Health Systems 20/20 project documents the range of performance-based incentive (PBI) approaches being implemented to improve maternal health—as well as other health priorities—and draws together what is known about their impact on maternal health.
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Cervical Health Awareness Month: Increasing Access to Prevention Services
It is now well established that prevention of cervical cancer—one of the leading causes of death for women in low-resource settings—can be successfully achieved by implementation of simple, practical and cost-effective screening technologies such as visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA). Using this approach, a dilute acetic acid (vinegar) solution is applied to the cervix.
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MCHIP and USAID Host First LAC Annual Conference on Kangaroo Mother Care
4 January 2012 (A Spanish translation of this article is available here.) MCHIP and USAID hosted the first Latin America and Caribbean Annual Conference on the implementation of the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) method on December 7-9, 2011, in the Dominican Republic.
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MCHIP Staff Present at the Second International Family Planning Conference
22 December 2011 In November, more than 20 MCHIP staff members from Bangladesh, Guinea, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and headquarters in Washington, D.C. joined over 2,200 participants from around the globe in Dakar, Senegal at the 2011 International Family Planning Conference. Attendees shared research, best practices, and progress on national strategies to deliver family planning services, with the ultimate goal of universal access to family planning.
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MCHIP Publishes Advocacy Briefs for Postpartum Family Planning
MCHIP has published four-page advocacy briefs for postpartum family planning in Kenya, Liberia and Bangladesh that involved a re-analysis of the DHS. They summarize key findings related to pregnancy spacing, fertility return, family planning use and contact with key services for women during the period from the last birth through two years postpartum. The publications can be found here: Family Planning Needs during the First Two Years Postpartum in Kenya
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