As donors, governments, and communities strive to deliver Universal Health Coverage, it is important to share experiences and tools as we try to find ways of advancing health sector accountability.…
Today, Lagos State launches a new app for notifying and reviewing maternal and perinatal deaths. In this blog, we look at how digitising Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response has the…
In 2016, one of every two maternal deaths that occurred in Bungoma were caused by blood loss. Today, we launch the E4A-Mama Ye campaign #DamuniUhai, calling for funding for blood services in Bungoma…
Maternal Perinatal Deaths Surveillance & Response (MPDSR) is a key process in many health systems. David Odhiambo is the chair of the Maternal & Newborn Health (MNH) Coalition of Kenya, an…
Today, E4A-MamaYe launches the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Action Tracker for use by MPDSR committees and partners globally. Here, County Advisor Stephen Yambi,…
Unfortunately, every year many of the women and children who die are lost due to preventable causes. These are someone’s mother, partner, child, parent, friend. Their lives should not have ended if…
Data is central to planning, decision making and delivering quality reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health. Scorecards can help health stakeholders in Nigeria determine interventions to…
Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response has become an important talking point both at county and national level in Kenya. In this blog, Federica Signoriello talks through why MPDSR is…
The MDSR action network website provides more information and resources on MDSR in Ethiopia.
9 – 15 October is a period each year when the world unites to condole with families that have experienced baby loss during pregnancy or at childbirth.
Following nine months of exciting wait, it is unimaginable despair for a mother to learn of stillbirth.
The Lagos State Accountability for Maternal and Newborn Health (LASAM), with support from MamaYe, has produced and disseminated scorecards to assess the performance of Lagos State.
The Honourable Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recognises the need for urgent steps to be taken to reverse the trend.
A 2014 report by UNFPA ranked Bungoma as the County with the 8th highest burden or maternal deaths in Kenya. Many of these deaths were and still are, preventable.
More than five million babies die in the last few weeks of pregnancy, during labour or soon after delivery every year. Reviewing deaths can lead to fewer such cases in the future.
Using scorecard is essential to catalyse action on Maternal and Newborn Health
Since 2011, key achievements have been made in strengthening data quality and use in health, particularly around the quantity and availability of data. However, many challenges remains.
Nkhata Bay District Implementation Team (DIT) resolves to approach profit-making stakeholders in the district and encourage them to extend their corporate social responsibility and support the health…
Kate Kerber, Africa Regional Specialist with Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children explains how to make every birth and death count, and keep us on the path of ending preventable deaths worldwide.
Chronic apprehension that brew tension has always been reported whenever CSOs "torchlight" the activities of policy makers on issues. So, when a CSO presents a health budget scorecard of…
The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) Action Network asked experts about the importance of multi-disciplinary teams in MDSR systems. Here are the insights they shared with us.
13th September is Sepsis Awareness Day. Sepsis is the leading killer of children and mothers worldwide, but there is a lack of sepsis awareness. You can take action and help to increase the awareness…
Maternal death review meetings were held to discuss cases and to brief participants on the new national MDSR guidelines. Find out how MDR committees are managing.
Learning about the issues and complications that lead to a pregnant woman dying will help us save the lives of many others.
The Member of Parliament for Tano North in Brong-Ahafo Region, Mrs. Freda Prempeh, has presented medical equipment worth GH¢30,000.00 to the Subonpan Community Health Planning Services compound in…
To tackle maternal mortality, the Federal Ministry of Health formally launched the national Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) system in May 2013.
Prior to the outbreak there were signs of progress in the country’s public health operation, which are now under threat.
Over the years I have always wondered what really the Mother’s Day Fun Run is like. I always thought people from Nation Publications Limited (NPL) come in one place, run for 2km and then call it a…
Everyone is being involved in maternal and newborn health in TA Jalasi, Mangochi. Check this out.
Sepsis is the leading killer of children and mothers worldwide, but this is not reflected in estimates of global mortality. You can take action and help to increase the awareness and participate in…
There are lots of ways to describe maternal mortality. But it doesn't matter how you calculate it, as long you count every maternal death. And bring it down.
On April 6, 2014 Former President of Malawi Dr. Joyce Banda said that her government had done so much to improve the lives of mothers and babies. She said that Malawi has improved in reducing the…
Will Brazil win the world cup it is hosting? After all, Brazil is leading all the countries playing at the world cup tournament. Although Nigeria has reduced child mortality by 42 percent since 1990…
A great majority of the 289,000 maternal deaths, estimated to have happened globally in 2013, could be avoided if we had the skills and the will to do so. Midwives can bring these skills, confirms…
Each year, 5.5 million babies enter and leave the world without being recorded and one in three newborns—over 45 million babies—do not have a birth certificate by their first birthday. This is the…
As the World health Organisation (WHO) releases its latest report on maternal mortality, IBTimesUK looks at some of the counties with the highest rates of deaths.
MamaYe and Community Health Research have facilitated the inauguration and training of a facility-based maternal death review committee in Kano State.
Maternal mortality must be an index for development of all countries to help improve the health of women and young girls, Professor Fred T. Sai, one of Ghana’s foremost reproductive health experts…
Country Director of the Evidence for Action Programme (MamaYe Campaign), Prof. Richard Adanu, has called on the Government and all relevant stakeholders to take serious action following increasing…
You might think that it’s easy to measure maternal mortality. You might think because it’s one of the Millennium Development Goals that countries have agreed what data should be collected to…
Last week a very lively training workshop full of the very best data geeks in Ghana and their Evidence for Action (E4A) collaborators set out to try to find the answer. How high - actually - is the…
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…
Sometimes working at high levels means you can get things done, but it can also be easy to lapse into thinking in aggregate – just looking at the statistics and the trends. To forget that these are…
For the first time in Ghana, five health professional groups have come together to form a Maternal and Newborn Health Professionals Society. The society is intended to harmonise the national efforts…
The purpose of this policy briefing is to provide information on the importance of adopting a supportive legislative and policy framework for the effective implementation of maternal death reviews (…
If a report on the number of women and children who die daily in all the local governments of the federation due to leadership negligence can be gathered, the nation should be in perpetual mourning…