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Unfortunately, measuring maternal deaths is not a simple task. National statistics on maternal mortality vary considerably from internationally published maternal death estimates. This paper, available in English and Spanish, seeks to explain and compare the various approaches to measuring maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean and the reason behind the different results. The report includes key presentations and statements as well as the final declaration. All publications are available in English, French, and Spanish. This publication, available in English and French, presents case studies from three countries — Bangladesh, Nepal, and Zambia — that have introduced and scaled up the use of misoprostol for postpartum hemorrhage PPH.
These country examples highlight the essential role of high-level commitment and support in initiating and implementing national programs, and provide inspiration and guidance for policy makers and partners seeking to expand access to misoprostol for PPH. FCI has released an Advocacy Toolkit for Programme Managers that carefully lays out the steps in designing and launching an advocacy strategy to ensure that existing government commitments are translated into concrete programs and services.
The Advocacy Training Guide, a companion piece to the Toolkit, was developed to strengthen the skills of grassroots community-level groups, networks, and organizations to design and plan an advocacy campaign. The New York Call to Commitment: FCI Ecuador and partners developed this publication to analyze maternal mortality from the perspective of gender inequity, social injustice, and poverty, and propose effective mechanisms and strategies for its reduction.
Designed to enhance post abortion client counseling and community education related to unsafe abortion in English-speaking Africa, this set of materials includes: Nearly 16 million girls between 15 and 19 give birth annually, almost all of them in developing countries. Designed for advocates, the toolkit encourages and enables evidence-based action among decision-makers, opinion leaders, medical personnel, researchers, and affected communities to prevent early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescent girls.
Sexual and reproductive health is crucial for the achievement of the MDGs. This document demonstrates the importance of expanding prevention efforts to underserved areas in the Amazonian District of Pando, located in the Bolivian lowlands between Brazil and Peru. In , the Kenya Constitution introduced a devolved system of government that aims to enhance access to health services by all Kenyans, especially those in rural and hard-to-reach areas.
Within this new context of devolution, the implementation of health policy commitments will shift: Focuses on care during pregnancy, delivery, and the post-partum period, as well as signs of complications. Each of the 15 illustrations is accompanied by key information points and questions to encourage discussion. For use in face-to-face counseling and group education settings. Highlights the role of safe motherhood within the reproductive health framework and summarizes global commitments to safe motherhood from conventions and international conferences held in the last decade.
What progress has the Safe Motherhood Initiative made since it was launched 20 years ago? These 2 reports a full review and an executive summary provide an overview of the positive trends and achievements of the last 20 years as well as challenges and opportunities which exist today in the field of safe motherhood.
Pocket card; describes the Safe Motherhood Initiative, introduces the problem of maternal mortality, and reviews essential issues for policy-makers. A report of an international conference held in Tunisia, November This policy brief, available in English and French, explores strategies to help governments and partners improve maternal health by expanding access to misoprostol for treatment and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage PPH , one of the leading causes of maternal death.
These briefing cards, produced by FCI on behalf of the Universal Access Project and a range of partners, detail the linkages between sexual and reproductive health and rights SRHR and other key development issues including environmental sustainability, gender equality, economic growth, educational attainment, and broader health goals. They present key facts about the impact of SRHR on the broader development agenda and make recommendations for inclusion of SRHR in the post development framework.
Set of 9 easy to use reference cards covering key issues in sexual and reproductive health and rights. A comprehensive resource for individuals and organizations working to ensure that every woman has access to skilled care during childbirth. Newsletters, programming resources, project descriptions, and other documents sharing the progress of the Skilled Care Initiative.
Available in English, French, and Spanish. Focuses on strengthening key skills such as active listening, using visual aids, and developing a client-responsive approach.
Uses role plays and other practical approaches adapted to adult learners. Evidence shows that investing in the capacity of midwives to provide high quality skilled delivery care translates into positive health outcomes for women, newborns, families, and communities. The report is also available in Spanish. Skilled maternity care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is recognized as a critical key to reducing maternal mortality. Today in many developing countries, however, more than half of women go through childbirth without such care and these women suffer disproportionately from pregnancy and childbirth complications that, far too often, lead to death or serious disability.
The Lancet, a premiere health journal, produced two special editions in on the important topics of Maternal Survival and Sexual and Reproductive Health. This document is a detailed report of the technical meeting Integrating Cultural Pertinence to Maternal Health Norms , held in Quito in September The meeting aimed at analyzing how recent culturally-pertinent maternal health norms issued by health authorities in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, as well as by Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, have contributed to improve access among indigenous women seeking maternal care in public health services.
The manual has been developed in fivelanguages and six different versions reflecting the regional contexts and the unique challenges facing adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Full color, page flipchart covering a wide range of safe motherhood, reproductive health, and gender topics, accompanied by a set of five brochures. This advocacy publication, produced in by FCI and UNFPA for the Campaign to End Fistula, presents promising practices and strategic recommendations for policy makers, programmers, and researchers seeking strengthen fistula prevention and treatment programmes in affected countries.
Kit du Responsable de programmes. A Price Too High to Bear: Instrumentos para presentaciones sobre salud sexual y reproductiva. Advocating for Maternal Health: The Power of Alliances for Maternal Health. Analyze the maternal health environment in order to decide if working with an alliance is advantageous; Work with an alliance by either joining an established alliance or creating a new one; and Plan advocacy activities taking into account the political context and ways an alliance can effectively reach decision makers. A Tool for Systematizing Experiences]. Camino al Buen Trato.
Changing Lives, Saving Lives. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All. Curriculum de Formation des Parents: Emergency Contraception in Latin America and the Caribbean: En la intimidad del buen vivir In the intimacy of healthful living. Essential Medicines for Maternal Health: Ensuring Equitable Access for All.
Estudios de caso de la vigilancia de la mortalidad materna. Women's Health and the MDGs. A Flipchart for Adolescents.
Getting the Message Out: Designing an Information Campaign on Women's Health. Healthy Women, Healthy Mothers: Improving Access to Safe Abortion: Improving Health, Saving Lives infographic.
Kenya's Annual Budget Cycle Calendar. A Flipchart for Rural Girls. Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio y la salud sexual y reproductiva: The perspective of Latin America and Caribbean Youth. Burkina Faso and Kenya. Making the Case for Midwifery: Mapping Maternal Health Advocacy: A Case Study of Uganda. A Case Study of Zambia. Mapping Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage: Meeting the Cairo Challenge: Progress in Sexual and Reproductive Health. Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage Information Kit.
Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage: Reaching women wherever they give birth. Monitoring Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness: Tools and Indicators for Maternal and Newborn Health. New York Call to Commitment: Por una maternidad y nacimientos seguros: It includes causes of deaths, sexual and reproductive education, abortion, and availability of health services in nine different regions of the country.
FCI Ecuador and partners developed this publication to analyze maternal mortality from the perspective of gender inequity, social injustice, and poverty, and propose effective mechanisms and strategies for its reduction. Nearly 16 million girls between 15 and 19 give birth annually, almost all of them in developing countries. Designed for advocates, the toolkit encourages and enables evidence-based action among decision-makers, opinion leaders, medical personnel, researchers, and affected communities to prevent early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescent girls.
Sexual and reproductive health is crucial for the achievement of the MDGs. In , the Kenya Constitution introduced a devolved system of government that aims to enhance access to health services by all Kenyans, especially those in rural and hard-to-reach areas. Within this new context of devolution, the implementation of health policy commitments will shift: Focuses on care during pregnancy, delivery, and the post-partum period, as well as signs of complications.
Each of the 15 illustrations is accompanied by key information points and questions to encourage discussion. For use in face-to-face counseling and group education settings.
Hepatitis B Foundation [Internet]. Unfortunately, measuring maternal deaths is not a simple task. A Price Too High to Bear: Mejor momento para iniciar el tratamiento. Through desk research and in-depth interviews with key informants, the mapping identifies advocacy priorities, challenges, and opportunities for collaboration. Hepatitis HB e Ag negativa.
Highlights the role of safe motherhood within the reproductive health framework and summarizes global commitments to safe motherhood from conventions and international conferences held in the last decade. What progress has the Safe Motherhood Initiative made since it was launched 20 years ago? These 2 reports a full review and an executive summary provide an overview of the positive trends and achievements of the last 20 years as well as challenges and opportunities which exist today in the field of safe motherhood.
Pocket card; describes the Safe Motherhood Initiative, introduces the problem of maternal mortality, and reviews essential issues for policy-makers. A report of an international conference held in Tunisia, November This policy brief, available in English and French, explores strategies to help governments and partners improve maternal health by expanding access to misoprostol for treatment and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage PPH , one of the leading causes of maternal death.
Set of 9 easy to use reference cards covering key issues in sexual and reproductive health and rights. A comprehensive resource for individuals and organizations working to ensure that every woman has access to skilled care during childbirth. Newsletters, programming resources, project descriptions, and other documents sharing the progress of the Skilled Care Initiative.
Available in English, French, and Spanish. Evidence shows that investing in the capacity of midwives to provide high quality skilled delivery care translates into positive health outcomes for women, newborns, families, and communities. The report is also available in Spanish. Skilled maternity care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is recognized as a critical key to reducing maternal mortality. Today in many developing countries, however, more than half of women go through childbirth without such care and these women suffer disproportionately from pregnancy and childbirth complications that, far too often, lead to death or serious disability.
The Lancet, a premiere health journal, produced two special editions in on the important topics of Maternal Survival and Sexual and Reproductive Health. This document is a detailed report of the technical meeting Integrating Cultural Pertinence to Maternal Health Norms , held in Quito in September The meeting aimed at analyzing how recent culturally-pertinent maternal health norms issued by health authorities in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, as well as by Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, have contributed to improve access among indigenous women seeking maternal care in public health services.
The manual has been developed in fivelanguages and six different versions reflecting the regional contexts and the unique challenges facing adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Full color, page flipchart covering a wide range of safe motherhood, reproductive health, and gender topics, accompanied by a set of five brochures. This advocacy publication, produced in by FCI and UNFPA for the Campaign to End Fistula, presents promising practices and strategic recommendations for policy makers, programmers, and researchers seeking strengthen fistula prevention and treatment programmes in affected countries.
A Price Too High to Bear: Instrumentos para presentaciones sobre salud sexual y reproductiva. Advocating for Maternal Health: The Power of Alliances for Maternal Health. Analyze the maternal health environment in order to decide if working with an alliance is advantageous; Work with an alliance by either joining an established alliance or creating a new one; and Plan advocacy activities taking into account the political context and ways an alliance can effectively reach decision makers.
A Tool for Systematizing Experiences]. Changing Lives, Saving Lives. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All. Essential Medicines for Maternal Health: Ensuring Equitable Access for All. Estudios de caso de la vigilancia de la mortalidad materna. Women's Health and the MDGs. Healthy Women, Healthy Mothers: Improving Health, Saving Lives infographic. Kenya's Annual Budget Cycle Calendar. Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio y la salud sexual y reproductiva: The perspective of Latin America and Caribbean Youth. Burkina Faso and Kenya. Making the Case for Midwifery: Mapping Maternal Health Advocacy: A Case Study of Uganda.
A Case Study of Zambia. Mapping Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage: Medicamentos Esenciales para la Salud Materna: Garantizar un Acceso Equitativo para Todos. Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage Information Kit. Questions and Answers for Policy Makers. Reaching women wherever they give birth. Monitoring Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness: Tools and Indicators for Maternal and Newborn Health. Por una Maternidad y Nacimiento Seguros in Bolivia.
Por una maternidad y nacimientos seguros: Public Choices, Private Decisions: Safe Motherhood General Fact Sheets. Safe Motherhood In The Community: Safe Motherhood List of International Commitments. Safe Motherhood Technical Fact Sheets. Safe Motherhood- A Review.