Nigeria’s young population and a fast pandemic response contributed to a relatively low number of people infected with COVID-19. With an estimated 27 million people, Lagos State government has worked…
The #FundNaijaHealth campaign is calling on government to release all appropriated health allocations on time, as this will enhance access to the health care that citizens, particularly mothers and…
Elizabeth Kah is an MNCH champion in Nigeria - with her work, she promotes accountability for the implementation of healthcare policies that will help in improving maternal and newborn mortality…
Who are the MamaYe Super Activists? They are ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things to keep mothers and babies alive and healthy in many parts of Nigeria.
Learn how MamaYe is creating sustainability environment, which is very crucial to community ownership of maternal and newborn health improvement interventions.
Monsurat has found a way to make pregnant women visit the health facility more than ever, to be delivered of their pregnancies. Her inspiration came from her readiness to take actions that will help…
MamaYe Super Activist initiative has expanded such influence to cover pregnant women and newborns access health care: this is the story of Saheed Taiwo Lawal
To achieve the 2017 World Population Day - Birth Spacing: Empowering People, Developing Nations' objective, we must consider the economic benefits of child spacing and family planning.
Many women require blood replacement while in labour, because excessive loss of blood (postpartum haemorrhage) has been identified to be one of the biggest causes of death for women in labour.
Available statistics from the Tanzanian Ministry of Health show that at least 556 women die every year in Tanzania due to pregnancy and childbirth related complications.
Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The event serves to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and to thank blood donors for their life-…
The introduction of SMS in the campaign has helped E4A-MamaYe Malawi in engaging the activists across all the three regions of Mzimba, Rumphi and Nkhata Bay.
MamaYe got the evidence around maternal and newborn health in health care facilities in Lagos State and used the findings to help improve on community attitudes towards the health of pregnant women…
The MamaYe movement continues to bring on board, communities from far and near to ensure that more people are taking action to save the lives of pregnant women and newborns in Nigeria. We bring you…
Read what a MamaYe Super Activist has said has been responsible for the many deaths of pregnant women in his village.
Maternal and newborn mortality may be high in Nigeria. We may have a very poor health system and it may seem that everything is not just working and no one is acting. But, we may be wrong, some…
Zariyatu Abubakar founded Wildan Care Foundation in 2008. Her experience about pregnancy and giving birth inspired her decision to found an organisation that takes care of pregnant women and newborns…
Yelwa Abdulahi works with the Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria, FOMWAN, Gombe State Chapter. Read her story.
At MamaYe, we encourage everyone to take actions that will improve maternal and newborn health. We also recognise the contributions of those who have been taking actions but who were not expecting…
Commemorating the International Women's Day 2017, we share the bold story Sakeenah-Salvador Bakari.
On International Women's Day we meet MamaYe Super Activist Claudia Temple
March 2nd 2017 was this year's MamaYe Day celebration and we were honored and inspired by the presence of Her Excellency Mrs. Toyin Saraki.
The hospital was unable to attend to its clients optimally until similar events occurred with some sprinkles of coincidences that are now setting it on the path of the go-to hospital for pregnant…
Community involvement is key to reducing infectious diseases as evidenced with the active participation of MamaYe activists surrounding Mzenga Health Center in Nkhata Bay district
Let us honor our pregnant women and our children in accessing quality health care and their health rights, as we commemorate International Human Rights today 10th December.
MamaYe Malawi joins the rest of the world today, 25th October 2016, in commemorating Global Day of Action for the Right to Health.
The sweat and tired legs during this year’s Mzimba Mother’s Day Fun Run helped raise K77 million worth of essential supplies and equipment.
Chiku Lweno-Aboud shares advocacy highlights for the International Day of Girls 2016 in Tanzania.
Our activists shared their stories during our MamaYe! Super Activists Orientation Meetings in Mzimba, Rumphi and Nkhata bay districts.
Sierra Leone's First Lady calls for innovative solutions to address adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
Esther Agbon from MamaYe Nigeria shares her experience and passion for budget advocacy with the White Ribbon Alliance in Tanzania.
Sallieu Sesay reviews the benefits of breastfeeding. Do mothers really know the secret to a bright, strong and healthy child? The answer is right here. Breast milk.
Superman, Spiderman, Captain America are all screen heros. At MamaYe, we are raising Super Humans that will challenge the status quo and demand action and accountability for the improvement of the…
Meet P.C. Alimamy whose initiative has helped to save the lives of at least 837 pregnant women.
After Paul Makonda urged the residents of Dar es Salaam to be an example for donating the biggest number of units of blood, public figures, politicians and members of the public rushed to donate…
Her ambition was to become a nurse/ midwife. She wanted to help pregnant mothers have safe delivery in health facilities especially in Rumphi her home district. Read the story of Isabel Chirwa.
The MamaYe Koinadugu Advocacy Group has joined the District Health Management Team (DHMT) in Koinadugu district in their advocacy campaign to contain the further spread of measles.
8th March is International Women’s Day, TAKE ACTION for girls and women with one of the incredible campaigns that are fighting for their empowerment - including MamaYe!
It’s International Women's Day today. As a woman, I know the story. As an activist, I know it is more than rhetoric. As a human I ask WHY! We should not even have to ask for this! It makes sense!
A couple was recognized as MamaYe Champions after donating a generator to Azare General Hospital’s lab.
MamaYe north is a project being implemented in the Northern region of Malawi in Nkhatabay, Rumphi and Mzimba South districts and has been officially launched in Nkhatabay and Rumphi on 12th December…
We recently awarded MamaYe champions in Bonthe and Koinadugu districts with certificates of appreciation for their services to mothers and babies.
MamaYe and Parent And Child Health Initiative (PACHI) exhibited their campaign activities during the Research Dissemination Conference organised by the Malawi College of Medicine.
The First Lady, Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma has on Tuesday launched four thousand HIV/Syphilis rapid test kits for pregnant women at the Dworzark Farm Health Centre in Freetown.
Mamaye aims to educate young people on MNH issues and employ them with skills to successful advocatec in their communities.
We are glad that we have provided the platform for young people to demand their health rights and contribute to policies that will enhance the quality of their family lives.
Read the Winner of MamaYe's essay competition. We believe Hadiza's story set the health agenda for the Bauchi State's governor, Mohammed A. Abubakar.
Maternal and newborn health has never been higher up the global agenda, but is Tanzania doing enough?
BaSAM calls for more midwives and to implement the Drug Revolving Fund, and MamaYe youth activists are awarded for their contribution!
We are excited that our youths are now participating in the quest to reducing maternal and newborn health. This is like providing for the rainy day, when they must be able to make inform decisions on…
Individuals are stepping forward to hold the guardians of the State's health system to account. In women, men and the young and growing, you will hear the passion in their voices and see the…
I say it is a game changer because am sure that if sustained it will improve service delivery, it will strengthen demand side accountability. It is a game changer because through Citizen Hearings…
This is historic! This is ground breaking! declared Richard Horton when opening the first ever global dialogue between citizens and governments to be held at the World Health Assembly. Tanzania was…
Members of the MamaYe Advocacy Coalition momentarily stopped the 2015 Summit to demand game-changing interventions for preventable maternal and newborn deaths.
How champions of maternal and newborn health in Ondo State and the government of the State have shown that heaven helps only those who help themselves to ensure that pregnant women and newborns…
On Saturday 14th March, Bright Light Youth Empowerment hosted a seminar on Ebola stigmatisation, teenage pregnancy and rape and at the National Youth Commission in Freetown.
Meet Kobina Essien, who has been saving the lives of pregnant women and their unborn babies by conveying them for safe and supervised delivery in his taxi.
Reaching out to those girls who dropped out of school due to pregnancy
The people of Chidelezi community in the Traditional Authority Kawamba, Kasungu constructed a simple village clinic, which will handle basic minor illnesses and antenatal services.
The youths in Kano, Nigeria promote youth participation in politics and develop demands to call politicians to account for their health.
The free MNCH bill, if signed and institutionalised, is capable of relieving families the burden of the costs of health facility-based child delivery and encourage women to attend antenatal care…
More youth efforts gathering voices and opinions to make maternal and newborn health a priority in the coming political dispensation.
Seminar by MamaYe! Nigeria on maternal and newborn survival state accountability engaged students and lectures from different institutions.
St. Mary’s Girls Senior High School, Kwamang Secondary School and the Beposo Islamic Secondary Schools have joined the MamaYe family.
With the introduction of the MamaYe Clubs in the districts, the biggest question has been: Can students, who have never been pregnant, educate women on issue of pregnancy and childbirth?
“Every journey starts with a step “so they say.
MamaYe has school-based youth clubs that are actively involved in the advocacy work.
Creativity hit the kabaza cyclists and they thought of cycling 120km to Mchinji in a bid to raise K5 million.
Sierra Leone Medical Students’ Association embarked on an Ebola house to house awareness campaign called ‘KickEbolaOut’ which started in August.
Could a strategic combination of evidence, advocacy and accountability be just the answer to achieving big outcomes in maternal and newborn health?
Everyone is being involved in maternal and newborn health in TA Jalasi, Mangochi. Check this out.
In its quest to involve everyone to take part in saving the lives of mothers and babies MamaYe campaign has recruited one of the prominent people in society as a national activist. Our newest…
Student4Change Mobile Project go to Goderich and KrooBay Community Health Centres in Freetown meet community members, facilitating dialogue on safe clinics - particularly safe water and good…
It was a joyous day as students of Kapiri Primary and Chilanga Secondary Schools of Mawango Village and Mlangali Village respectfully came together in Chisazima village ready to show off what they…
At MamaYe we believe that all mothers and their babies deserve respectful care. We also think that midwives, nurses, doctors and other healthworkers are heroes and heroines whose hard work should be…
MamaYe decided to implement a 90-day pilot project that will use mobile technology with the help of our corporate partners Africell and African homegrown application Telerivet, to drive messaging and…
"MamaYe depicts issues that are close to all of our hearts. It concerns everyone, including you!"
On 23 January Dr Hans of Kamuzu Central Hospital sent an SOS to Mamaye on the critical blood shortage that hit the paediatric ward leading to unnecessary deaths of children. Chinsapo Secondary school…
As part of activities to increase and sustain public visibility for maternal and newborn health in Ghana, the MamaYe Campaign is engaging youth in Senior High Schools across the country on a platform…
It was a moment of wow, a moment of how? Every word and action from students of Kapiri primary and Mawango Community Day Secondary schools was a jaw dropper. These kids, whose club patrons had only…
All around Africa, people from all walks of life, including health-workers, decision-makers, community leaders and campaigners, are working for the health of women, babies and children in their…
10 cool MamaYe successes of 2013. These are YOUR success too. We must continue to build momentum to ensure that MORE of our MOTHERS & BABIES survive childbirth in Sierra Leone.
Everyday, some people take an effort to help others and in the end, bring joy and happiness to the homes and families of those who receive their help. At MamaYe!, we make sure that when we know such…
As members of the public, we were left in a state of shock when we heard that the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) has recorded 1,130 maternal deaths between 2005 and June 2013. This unfortunate…
October 10 2013. The much-anticipated launch of the MamaYe campaign - a campaign calling for public action to improve maternal and newborn health, kicks off in Kano. The first amazement that greeted…
Having had a very colourful Mama Ye! launch in Arusha in January, we are busy keeping the momentum going so that lots of Tanzanians can join us to help save our mothers and babies.At the launch, we…
MamaYe! Ghana has hosted communications and advocacy activists from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Malawi and Tanzania as part of the international MamaYe Campaign, a multi-year programme, which aims to…
This is recognition, this is an award fit for champions! A prize for excellence in maternal, newborn and child health is open to all who have contributed significantly the save Tanzanian mothers and…
The Mama Afrika Award is named after Miriam Makeba, the famous singer, to recognize outstanding efforts by health-workers, decision-makers, community leaders and campaigners, CARMMA, an African Union…
Traffina Foundation has been working in Nigeria to improve maternal and newborn health using various methods. This time, the founder of the organisation and a maternal and newborn heroine, Nomso,…
The Mama Afrika Award honours remarkable efforts by individuals or organisations in Africa that ensure Africa’s mothers, newborns and children survive and thrive into the future. Nominate anyone or…
Ms. Afrique Montreal winner from Sierra Leone gives back to her home country, Sierra Leone.
A beautifully lit stage welcomed delegates as they streamed into the Boma Banquet Hall at the Birchwood Hotel on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. A day of deliberations marked by opening…
The intervention focuses on exclusive breastfeeding by promoting behavioural change of some harmful cultural practices and beliefs such as discarding colostrums, giving of prelacteral feeds and delay…
The story of Hassanatu N’jai, a young woman who went from being a community health volunteer to a registered nurse specializing in maternal and newborn care.
Paramount Chief of Kasonko, Roman Lamina Baio Serry 3rd cares about the mothers and babies in his community.
The people of Kormosilaiasure are a proud people who embrace the mottos of ‘unity’ and ‘one wod’, meaning togetherness, to heart.
It is widely acknowledged that family planning saves lives by reducing the number of high-risk pregnancies and possibly abortion. Family planning is also a cost-effective intervention that not only…
Meeting her was like meeting any other teenager. But, trust me when I say her story is far from a typical teenager. Well, on second thoughts, unfortunately, her story is not that unique. Joyce…
Photo essay depicting World Blood Donor day celebrations in Kabala, Koinadugu district, Sierra Leone
Read the infographic below to find our why MamaYe Ghana is working to increase awareness and encourage the Ghanaian public to give blood to save a mama or a baby.Join us at the Forecourt of the…
IDEAS (Informed Decisions for Actions) aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice. Working in Ethiopia, North-Eastern…
TSHIP works to establish strong and durable bonds between community institutions and the healthcare delivery system in every ward of Bauchi and Sokoto, with measurably improved household practices…
Leading hip hop artist and peace ambassador with a massive youth following, Kao Denero joins the MamaYe campaign in support of raising awareness around issues of maternal and newborn health in Sierra…
MamaYe launched in Freetown on Friday, May 17. It was an exciting day that boosted over 390 participants, featuring:speeches from the Deputy Ministers of Finance and Health,a musical performance by…
Matron Isatu Kamara is busy. She is busy ensuring that babies are given a better chance at survival...
Naiyobi is a remote rural village in Ngorongoro district, Arusha region northern Tanzania. Its villagers are largely Maasai pastoralists. Naiyobi’s community is made up of individuals who will not…
On Tuesday, MamaYe Ghana was officially launched at the International Conference Centre in Accra. The event bought together over 300 stakeholders in maternal and newborn health from all corners of…
On February 9th E4A - MamaYe organised and trained selected health correspondents across Kano and Jigawa states, as well as Abuja. The training, which involved sixteen health journalists from print,…
Tanzania’s Dr. Godfrey Mbaruku first thought his posting to remote Kigoma in Tanzania was a punishment. The only maternal specialist for 1.2 million people with deplorable conditions and staff…
Acting together will result in thousands of mothers and newborns surviving pregnancy and childbirth. That is the conviction of the Mama Ye! campaign.
In less than a year, Traditional Authority Kalonga of Salima has managed to reduce the number of annual maternal deaths in his area, from ten to two. He has done this through the establishment of by-…
Pilirani Chagazu saved his sister's life. Rose lost a lot of blood while giving birth to twins and he was the voluntary blood donor needed to make sure she survived.
Read how a 25 year old Kenyan built an online database of blood donors and is using Twitter and instant messaging to connect mothers and babies in critical need with life saving supplies.
