19 April 2013 Samata village, Mali, is a rural, agricultural community of about 1,200 people located 35 km (more than 21 miles) from the nearest community-owned health center of Djidian, and 75 km (about 46 miles) from the nearest Reference Health Center of Kita. Before the Community Essential Care program was implemented by MCHIP in collaboration with UNICEF and other partners, the villagers in Samata would walk for four hours to seek care in Djidian when their children were sick. Lack of accessible and high-quality health services took the lives of many children, with malaria being the leading cause of mortality.

12 March 2013 An article co-authored by MCHIP staff has been published in the journal Health Policy and Planning. “Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence of child mortality impact” presents the results of an analysis of 12 community-based projects implemented by nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The projects are funded through USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program to which MCHIP gives technical support.

Saving Newborn Lives and MCHIP jointly supported a multi-country assessment of Kangaroo Mother Care in sub-Saharan Africa. Four country visits—to Malawi, Mali, Rwanda and Uganda—produced a very detailed report of each country’s findings.

This report aims to define the registration process for Oxytocin in Uniject® and to recommend options for its commercialization and distribution in Mali, primarily in the public sector.