Maternal and Child Health

Since its initial linkage with immunization in the 1990s, supplementation has almost always been delivered in combination with other health services.

Pregnant women were offered free access to health care through National Health Insurance (NHIS) membership in Ghana in 2008, in the latest phase of policy reforms to ensure universal access to maternal health care.

The voucher scheme has both direct and indirect impact on the provision and uptake of various components of maternal and child health services.

Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) is a child health scheme for screening and treating diseases, defects, and deficiencies in children, now expanded with digital tracking and wider coverage.

As part of the global “Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed” movement, the Vice President of the Republic of Uganda, His Excellency Edward Ssekandi, unveiled a sharpened plan that aims to prevent an additional 40 per cent of Under 5 deaths and 26 per cent of maternal deaths by 2017.

MomConnect messages are designed to build an emotional connection with mothers, encouraging and empowering them to take an active role in their healthcare, while providing advice on the importance of attending antenatal visits, how to prepare for a healthy and safe labor, and the best ways to take care of their newborn.

Countdown’s focus broadened during its 2008 cycle to encompass the MNCH continuum of care, and effective maternal and reproductive health interventions were added to the list of interventions that it tracks.

Se crea el Seguro Universal Materno Infantil en todo el territorio nacional, con carácter universal, integral y gratuito, para otorgar las prestaciones de salud en los niveles de atención del Sistema Nacional de Salud y del Sistema de Seguridad Social de Corto Plazo.

The aim at the onset was to provide an emergency stop gap to the human resource shortage of skilled attendance at the level of Primary Health Care in Nigeria by mobilizing and deploying these midwives to health facilities in rural communities.

The Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (Spanish: Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar; ICBF) is a Colombian government agency, in charge of preventing and protecting children and adolescents in vulnerable conditions. It was established in 1968, by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, at the initiative of his wife, the First Lady, Cecilia de la Fuente de Lleras, through the "Cecilia" law.

The first half of the handbook includes a section for recording pregnancy and childbirth, and for a newborn baby, there is a section for periodic health examinations, immunizations (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, measles, etc.), and dental examinations until the child enters elementary school.

The Fast Track Initiative Roadmap (FTIRM) for Reducing Maternal and Newborn Mortality 2010-2015 was developed in 2009 as a means of accelerating reductions in maternal and newborn mortality and progress toward achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG)4 and 5.

Members collaborate through PMNCH to advance sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.

The Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health was a program of the United Nations (UN) directed at improving women's and children's health in the developing world.

The child survival revolution (also called the child survival and development revolution) was an effort started by UNICEF (but joined by others) to reduce child mortality in the developing world.

The campaign's first action was the donation of fully equipped mobile clinics to several counties in Kenya during the summer of 2014, beginning with Taita Taveta County. == Objectives == Beyond Zero has the overall goal of eliminating all preventable maternal and child deaths in Kenya by 2023.

The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is one of six Bureaus within the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency of the U.S.

Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a non-profit organization operating in the United States that connects mothers pregnant with their first child with registered nurses, who provide home visits until the child's second birthday.

The White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) is an international non-profit organization that advocates for maternal health.

The Care Group Approach is a community-based behavior change strategy that engages and leverages paid community health workers and volunteers to lower deaths and malnutrition in preschool children (<5 years) by promoting key behaviors for maternal, newborn, and child health.

March of Dimes is an American nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of mothers and babies.

The global Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), launched in 2014, provides a road map of strategic actions for ending preventable newborn mortality and stillbirth and contributing to reducing maternal mortality and morbidity.

Merck for Mothers supports the company’s work in expanding access to health and accelerating progress toward the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3), which aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.

Hussein Ali Mwinyi officially launched the Wazazi Nipendeni Safe Motherhood campaign . “Through the Wazazi Nipendeni Safe Motherhood campaign, Tanzania is rolling out the Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa in Tanzania (CARMMAT),” explained Dr.

Indonesia achieved universal maternal health coverage through a range of channels, including Askes (public sector social insurance coverage), Jamsostek (private sector social insurance coverage), and Jampersal (childbirth assurance coverage).

Recognizing his achievement, President Joyce Banda asked Kwataine (pronounced kwa-TAYNE) a year ago to head her new Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood .

When India launched the Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Programme on 15th October 1997, it marked a turning point in how the nation approached maternal and child healthcare.

On February 4, 2010, Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Aneesh Chopra announced the launch of Text4baby, an educational program of HMHB developed through a broad public-private partnership.

As the global secretariat for HMS, Jhpiego introduced the HMS approach and has reached more than 100,000 providers in 65+ countries.

In 2010, the American Academy of Pediatrics and partners in the Helping Babies Breathe Global Development Alliance began disseminating the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) programme of measures, which is based on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Consensus on Science and World Health Organization Guidelines on Basic New‐born Resuscitation 15 .