2 January 2013 Running a labor room or ward can be challenging, especially if it is not staffed with health care providers who have updated lifesaving skills. For this reason, MCHIP—in collaboration with Rwanda’s Ministry of Health (MOH)—has been conducting in-service emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) trainings for health care providers in nine target districts of the country. MCHIP is also providing supportive supervision visits to reinforce these providers’ competencies in providing high-quality care to mothers and newborns.

1 December 2012 As a Program that aims to improve maternal and child health around the world, we at MCHIP are keenly aware of the need to integrate health services wherever possible in an effort to expand our reach and meet the comprehensive needs of individual clients and patients. In Malawi—one of the countries where we address tuberculosis (TB)—this means increasing TB case finding within the context of focused antenatal care (FANC) to serve as many women and their families as possible. And because TB is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV/AIDS, our approach to both of these diseases must be coordinated.

This report highlights changes in knowledge, practice and coverage (KPC) among mothers of children under two measured through small-sample household surveys. These KPC surveys were conducted at the beginning and end of four or five-year projects funded by USAID's Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP).

4 October 2012 Nearing the end of their first year of implementation, workplans for six innovation and operations research awarded to international NGOs and their local partners through the Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) FY 2011 Request for Application (RFA) have been finalized and operations research is underway.