MPDSR

Sharing E4A-MamaYe’s tools as Global Public Goods for health

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.…

Harnessing the Power of Technology to Save Mothers & Babies

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…

Blood is life! How blood donation will save lives of mothers

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…

Advocates picking up action points from MPDSR Committees

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…

Tracking Action: Launch of Our MPDSR Action Tracker

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,…

How data can save someone’s mother, partner, friend or child

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…

Using scorecards to achieve Sustainable Development Goals

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…

Signs of change for MPDSR in Kenya

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…

MDSR Ethiopia resources

The MDSR action network website provides more information and resources on MDSR in Ethiopia.

Baby Loss Awareness Week

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.

Counting and Accounting for Every Stillbirth

Following nine months of exciting wait, it is unimaginable despair for a mother to learn of stillbirth.

New Scorecards on MNH and the Health Budget in Lagos State

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.

No Woman Should Die Giving Birth

The Honourable Minister of Health of the Federal Republic of Nigeria recognises the need for urgent steps to be taken to reverse the trend.

Evidence is key for maternal and perinatal deaths advocacy

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.

The numbers matter. Here's why

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 scorecards to catalyse action

Using scorecard is essential to catalyse action on Maternal and Newborn Health

Strengthening Data Quality and Use: A Priority for Malawi

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 Council resolves to fix transport problems for pregnant mothers

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…

Count and review every birth and death to prevent future tragedies

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.

Bauchi State Health Commissioner reacts to budget scorecard in a surprising manner!

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 role of multi-disciplinary teams in MDSR

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.

World Sepsis Day: Stop Sepsis, Save Lives

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…

Support for maternal death reviews in Bonthe and Koinadugu

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.

Bauchi Govt Raises Panel On Maternal Death Review

Learning about the issues and complications that lead to a pregnant woman dying will help us save the lives of many others.

MP equips CHPS compound to serve pregnant women

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…

Maternal Deaths and MDSR in Ethiopia

To tackle maternal mortality, the Federal Ministry of Health formally launched the national Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) system in May 2013.

Warnings over Collapse of Health System in the Wake of Ebola in Sierra Leone

Prior to the outbreak there were signs of progress in the country’s public health operation, which are now under threat.

Running, walking and crawling for mothers and babies...

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…

TA Jalasi, taking a multi- sectoral approach to ending maternal deaths

Everyone is being involved in maternal and newborn health in TA Jalasi, Mangochi. Check this out.

World Sepsis Day: Join us

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…

Count them all and calculate it right: maternal mortality in context

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.

Reducing Maternal Deaths in Malawi

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…

Among World Cup Countries, Brazil Leads in Saving Children’s Lives!

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…

Calling all midwives to take action to save women’s lives

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…

Newborns deserve our attention now

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…

Sierra Leone Makes the List & MamaYe SL Country Director Responds

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, CHR inaugurate maternal death review in Kano

MamaYe and Community Health Research have facilitated the inauguration and training of a facility-based maternal death review committee in Kano State.

Make Maternal Survival a key index of Ghana's development - Prof. Sai

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…

Ghana: 1,012 Institutional Maternal Deaths recorded in 2013

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…

If we don’t know the size of the problem, how do we fix it?

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…

What is the real extent of maternal mortality in Ghana?

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…

Mama Afrika Award Alert: Nominate your hero/heroine NOW!

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…

Because the death of every mother and baby counts

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…

MNH Professionals' Society launched in Ghana

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…

MDRs: why we need a supportive legislation

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 (…

How I could have saved a mother's life with my pen

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…