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Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

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    Saving Mothers, Giving Life Approach for Strengthening Health Systems to Reduce Maternal and Newborn Deaths in 7 Scale-up Districts in Northern Uganda
    Simon Sensalire, Paul Isabirye, Esther Karamagi, John Byabagambi, Mirwais Rahimzai and Jacqueline Calnan on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S168-S187; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00263

    Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) strengthened the health system in 7 districts in Northern Uganda through a quality improvement approach. Quality improvement teams removed barriers to delivering maternal and newborn health services and improved emergency care, reducing preventable maternal and newborn deaths in a post-conflict, low-resource setting.

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    Sustainability and Scale of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Approach in Uganda and Zambia
    Jessica Healey, Claudia Morrissey Conlon, Kennedy Malama, Reeti Hobson, Frank Kaharuza, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Marta Levitt, Davy Wadula Zulu and Lawrence Marum on behalf of the Saving Mothers,Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S188-S206; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00265

    The Saving Mothers, Giving Life district health systems strengthening approach provides a sustainable model for reducing maternal mortality at scale. Lessons from the learning districts demonstrated increased efficiency in allocation of resources for maternal and newborn health, better use of strategic information, improved management capacities, and increased community engagement.

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    Impact of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Approach on Decreasing Maternal and Perinatal Deaths in Uganda and Zambia
    Florina Serbanescu, Thomas A. Clark, Mary M. Goodwin, Lisa J. Nelson, Mary Adetinuke Boyd, Adeodata R. Kekitiinwa, Frank Kaharuza, Brenda Picho, Diane Morof, Curtis Blanton, Maybin Mumba, Patrick Komakech, Fernando Carlosama, Michelle M. Schmitz and Claudia Morrissey Conlon on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S27-S47; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00428

    Through district system strengthening, integrated services, and community engagement interventions, the Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative increased emergency obstetric care coverage and access to, and demand for, improved quality of care that led to rapid declines in district maternal and perinatal mortality. Significant reductions in intrapartum stillbirth rate and maternal mortality ratios around the time of birth attest to the success of the initiative.

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    Addressing the First Delay in Saving Mothers, Giving Life Districts in Uganda and Zambia: Approaches and Results for Increasing Demand for Facility Delivery Services
    Florina Serbanescu, Mary M. Goodwin, Susanna Binzen, Diane Morof, Alice R. Asiimwe, Laura Kelly, Christina Wakefield, Brenda Picho, Jessica Healey, Agnes Nalutaaya, Leoda Hamomba, Vincent Kamara, Gregory Opio, Frank Kaharuza, Curtis Blanton, Fredrick Luwaga, Mona Steffen and Claudia Morrissey Conlon on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S48-S67; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00343

    The Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative used 3 coordinated approaches to reduce maternal deaths resulting from a delay in deciding to seek health care, known as the “first delay”: (1) promoting safe motherhood messages and facility delivery using radio, theater, and community engagement; (2) encouraging birth preparedness and increasing demand for facility delivery through community outreach worker visits; and (3) providing clean delivery kits and transportation vouchers to reduce financial barriers for facility delivery. These approaches can be adapted in other low-resource settings to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality.

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    Saving Mothers, Giving Life: It Takes a System to Save a Mother
    Claudia Morrissey Conlon, Florina Serbanescu, Lawrence Marum, Jessica Healey, Jonathan LaBrecque, Reeti Hobson, Marta Levitt, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Brenda Picho, Fatma Soud, Lauren Spigel, Mona Steffen, Jorge Velasco, Robert Cohen and William Weiss on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S6-S26; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00427

    A multi-partner effort in Uganda and Zambia employed a districtwide health systems strengthening approach, with supply- and demand-side interventions, to address timely use of appropriate, quality maternity care. Between 2012 and 2016, maternal mortality declined by approximately 40% in both partnership-supported facilities and districts in each country. This experience has useful lessons for other low-resource settings.

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    Addressing the Second Delay in Saving Mothers, Giving Life Districts in Uganda and Zambia: Reaching Appropriate Maternal Care in a Timely Manner
    Thandiwe Ngoma, Alice R. Asiimwe, Joseph Mukasa, Susanna Binzen, Florina Serbanescu, Elizabeth G. Henry, Davidson H. Hamer, Jody R. Lori, Michelle M. Schmitz, Lawrence Marum, Brenda Picho, Anne Naggayi, Gertrude Musonda, Claudia Morrissey Conlon, Patrick Komakech, Vincent Kamara and Nancy A. Scott on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S68-S84; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00367

    The Saving Mothers, Giving Life initiative employed 2 key strategies to improve the ability of pregnant women to reach maternal care: (1) increase the number of emergency obstetric and newborn care facilities, including upgrading existing health facilities, and (2) improve accessibility to such facilities by renovating and constructing maternity waiting homes, improving communication and transportation systems, and supporting community-based savings groups. These interventions can be adapted in low-resource settings to improve access to maternity care services.

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    Addressing the Third Delay in Saving Mothers, Giving Life Districts in Uganda and Zambia: Ensuring Adequate and Appropriate Facility-Based Maternal and Perinatal Health Care
    Diane Morof, Florina Serbanescu, Mary M. Goodwin, Davidson H. Hamer, Alice R. Asiimwe, Leoda Hamomba, Masuka Musumali, Susanna Binzen, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Brenda Picho, Frank Kaharuza, Phoebe Monalisa Namukanja, Dan Murokora, Vincent Kamara, Michelle Dynes, Curtis Blanton, Agnes Nalutaaya, Fredrick Luwaga, Michelle M. Schmitz, Jonathan LaBrecque, Claudia Morrissey Conlon, Brian McCarthy, Charlan Kroelinger and Thomas Clark on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S85-S103; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00272

    Saving Mothers, Giving Life used 6 strategies to address the third delay—receiving adequate health care after reaching a facility—in maternal and newborn health care. The intervention approaches can be adapted in low-resource settings to improve facility-based care and reduce maternal and perinatal mortality.

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    Antenatal Corticosteroids: Primum non nocere
    Steve Hodgins
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2018, 6(4):620-623; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00461

    Efforts continue—building on work of the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children—to expand use of antenatal corticosteroids in low-resource settings. We argue that until more is known on the balance of benefit versus harm, such promotion should be suspended.

  • Open Access
    Antenatal Corticosteroids for Women at Risk of Imminent Preterm Birth in 7 sub-Saharan African Countries: A Policy and Implementation Landscape Analysis
    Dawn Greensides, Judith Robb-McCord, Angeline Noriega and James A. Litch
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2018, 6(4):644-656; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00171

    Countries have put in place some elements necessary for safe and effective antenatal corticosteroid (ACS) use, but significant challenges remain including: ensuring accurate gestational age determination, establishing clear treatment guidelines, strengthening provider capacity, incorporating obstetric indications for ACS use in national essential medicines lists, and collecting and using ACS-related data in the HMIS. Most importantly, the quality of maternal and newborn care, including specialized newborn care, needs improvement to ensure a strong foundation for the safe and effective use of ACS.

  • Open Access
    mLearning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility and Pilot Cluster Randomized Trial Using the Safe Delivery App
    Nancy E. Bolan, Larry Sthreshley, Bernard Ngoy, Faustin Ledy, Mano Ntayingi, Davis Makasy, Marie-Claude Mbuyi, Gisele Lowa, Lynne Nemeth and Susan Newman
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2018, 6(4):693-710; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00275

    Health worker knowledge and self-confidence in basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC) increased significantly 3 months after introduction of the Safe Delivery App in intervention facilities compared with controls.

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