Scaling Up Innovations in Maternal and Newborn Health: 5 Lessons Learned

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By: Neil Spicer, Qualitative Lead on scale-up at the IDEAS project, Lecturer in Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

A team based at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has studied the critical steps that were taken to help scale up the Saving Newborn Lives neonatal sepsis management innovation, as part of Ethiopia’s flagship Community Based Newborn Care programme with the overall aim of improving maternal and newborn health outcomes. What lessons can the analysis hold for other countries?…read more

Is it Time to Retire the Skilled Birth Attendant Indicator?

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By: Stephen Hodgins, Senior Technical Advisor, Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children

The skilled birth attendant (SBA) indicator may measure coverage, but it does not necessarily measure quality of care. Perhaps for labor and delivery care, we should shift our focus from who is there and where it happens to what is being done and when……read more

Five Keys to Ensuring Sustainability of High-Impact, Scalable MNCH Programs

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By: Luis Tam, Global Technical Lead for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Luis Tam, global technical lead for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), discusses five ways to create lasting, scalable MNCH programs…read more