ACCESS Health at the 2018 Forum for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
ACCESS Health was a proud participant in the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health 2018 Forum, held in December in New Delhi. The event focused on improving multisectoral action for results, sharing country solutions, and capturing and sharing best practices in the maternal, newborn, and child health sectors. Part of our involvement including offering…
The Quality Of Lifesaving Medicines: A New Investment Strategy
The Concept Foundation recently hosted a side event at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Forum on the quality of lifesaving medicines. Participants in the Quality of Life-Saving Medicines: A New Investment Strategy panel discussion noted that with decreasing aid assistance to developing countries, there is a need for new strategies and funding…
Sharing Learnings from the Safe Care, Saving Lives Program
ACCESS Health India recently presented lessons learned from the Safe Care, Saving Lives program to officials of the Department of Health and Family Welfare and National Health Mission in Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra. Thanks to government leadership, Chhatisgarh has lowered infant mortality rate of fifty one deaths per thousand live births to thirty nine infants per thousand. The…
Manyata Quality Maternal Care Initiative Featured At World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
One of India’s most promising quality maternal care initiatives was featured at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics’ triennial World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Rio de Janeiro from October 14 to October 19. The Manyata for Mothers program improves the quality of maternity care in private facilities in India, a country in which…
ACCESS Health India Supports Major Conference in Delhi on Maternal and Child Health
ACCESS Health India and its partners are working hard to build momentum around a major event at end of year in New Delhi. The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Forum will bring together more than one thousand partners dedicated to the the achievement of the UN Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health…
ACCESS Health at the 13th International Breastfeeding and Lactation Symposium: Are small and sick babies receiving mother’s own milk in public and private sector Neonatal Intensive Care Units in India
ACCESS Health was recently invited to share learnings from India on quality improvement as part of the 13th International Breastfeeding and Lactation Symposium in Paris. Ajitkumar Sudke, ACCESS Health India’s Director of Quality and Process Improvement and head of our Safe Care, Saving Lives program shared preliminary findings from a research study taking place in three Indian hospital…
Continuous Quality Improvement in Maternal and Newborn Care in Sangareddy Hospital
Margaret Crotty, the Executive Director of the New York based nonprofit, Partnership for Children, and one of the newest members of the Board of Directors of ACCESS Health International, recently visited Sangareddy Hospital in Hyderabad, Telangana to view their maternal and newborn quality improvement programs. District Hospital Sangareddy Hospital was one of the first hospitals…
Government of Telangana Leads Quality Improvement Initiatives Across the State to Help Save the Lives of Preterm Babies
Healthcare leaders in Telangana joined together at Niloufer Hospital to pledge their support to improve health outcomes for babies born preterm. Premature birth and low birthweight is a leading cause of infant mortality in India. The Government of Telangana has undertaken a quality improvement initiative at Niloufer Hospital and other hospitals across the state called…
A new approach to Public Health: Transforming Maternal and Newborn Care in Telangana
HealthCare India recently published an in depth report on our maternal and newborn child work in Telangana, India. Read the original post here or the excerpt from the post below. More than 659,000 newborn babies die every year in India. It is the highest number of newborn deaths in the world. The country also accounts…
ACCESS Health Featured in The Hindu Promoting Early Breastfeeding
This article originally appeared in The Hindu. Fewer Newborns in Telangana State get Breast Milk within an Hour In Telangana just 37% of newborns are breastfed within one hour of birth. The figure is lower than national average of 41.6%. Also, two thirds of mothers in the State breastfeed exclusively for the first six months.…