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Subject: Maternal and child health > Safe birth and newborn care
- Improving Maternal and Child Health
This is a two-page fact sheet on PATH's maternal and child health activities.
Author: Krasovec K
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- Improving Maternal and Child Health in South Africa: PATH's Project Portfolio Addresses the Intersection of HIV and Vulnerable Mothers and Children
This brief provides a description of PATH's work in South Africa. Projects focus on advancing health technologies for mothers and children, preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, caring for caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children, advocating for sound microbicides research in Africa, supporting midwives who work on HIV and AIDS, and strengthening tuberculosis infection prevention and control.
Publication date: February 2010
Region: Africa
- Increasing Women's Access to and Use of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention Interventions in Ukraine
In this publication you will find a fact sheet that describes the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Project in Ukraine.
Author: Gamazina K; Mogilevkina I; Bishop A
Publication date: 2006
Region: Eastern Europe
- India Country Program Website
This website about PATH’s India country program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.
Publication date: 2013
Region: Asia
Part of series: PATH's program websites
- Indonesia's Healthy Start Program
Publication date: 2003
Region: Asia
- Innovations for Maternal and Newborn Health: PATH's Maternal and Child Health Technology Initiative Works to Reduce Mortality in South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Province
This document describes PATH's Maternal and Child Health Technology Initiative and its work to reduce maternal mortality in South Africa's KwaZulu Natal Province.
Publication date: February 2010
Region: Africa
- Innovative Solutions Saving Mothers’ Lives
This fact sheet provides information about the use of the hormone oxytocin in the Uniject device to prevent postpartum hemorrhage. It summarizes the benefits of using this innovative solution and also provides a success story based on a pilot study conducted in Mali.
Publication date: November 2009
Region: Global
- Instructions for Health Workers: Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch
This illustrated job aid provides a quick reference for providers using the nevirapine infant-dose pouch in programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT).
Author: Berman A; Brooke S
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Introducing Oxytocin in the Uniject™ Device: An Overview for Decision-Makers
This overview has been developed for program planners considering introduction and/or expansion of the use of oxytocin, and in particular oxytocin packaged in the Uniject™ device, to reduce the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage as a component of their maternal and child health programming. Administering oxytocin is just one component of active management of third stage labor.
Publication date: September 2008
Region: Global
- Introducing TT Uniject in Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination
This document provides materials to assist health workers and program managers in the introduction, training, and proper use of TT-Uniject.
Author: Fleming J; Nelson C
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- An Investigation Into the Context of Use and Functionality of Neonatal Resuscitator Devices
A HealthTech report evaluating neonatal resuscitators.
Author: Coffey P; Seamans Y; Kelly K
Publication date: 2005
Region: Global
- John Taolo Gaetsewe District Profile: Ensuring Healthier Futures for Mothers and Children
This document describes the Window of Opportunity project's efforts to improve the health and development of mothers and children in John Taolo Gaetswe District, South Africa. The Window of Opportunity project is a five-year initiative led by PATH, with support from BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities, that focuses on improving the health and development of children younger than two years in South Africa and Mozambique.
Publication date: September 2012
Region: Africa
Part of series: Window of Opportunity project: district profiles
- Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Global Program Website
This website about PATH’s Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition global program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.
Publication date: 2013
Region: Global
Part of series: PATH's program websites
- mHealth, eHealth, Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 29, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook explores the promise and current realities of new information technologies in service to reproductive health programming in low-resource settings (including HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and maternal and child health interventions). The issue examines new approaches and looks to the future for current needs and potential solutions.
Author: Wittet S
Publication date: December 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Misoprostol Use in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Outlook, vol. 21, no. 4)
This issue of Outlook provides evidence-based information on the emerging use of misoprostol in obstetrics and gynecology. It describes current research, regulatory issues, availability, and administration, as well as misoprostol's use during labor and delivery for labor induction and for prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. It also describes its use in inducing or managing abortion, including for treatment of incomplete abortion, preabortion cervical ripening, and pregnancy termination. Finally, it outlines safety issues and implications for research and practice.
Author: Burns M
Publication date: April 2005
Region: Global
Part of series: Outlook
- Mobile Midwife Platform
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet describes PATH and our partners’ work to provide minimally trained health care providers in developing countries with a tool designed to improve postnatal maternal and newborn care in rural clinic- and home-based settings. The tool, which runs on a mobile device, provides midwives with localized guidance on clinical decisions, patient record management, and instructional support.
Publication date: April 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Neonatal Resuscitator
Part of the Technology Updates series, this fact sheet descibes the neonatal resuscitator project funded by USAID under the HealthTech program at PATH.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
Part of series: Technology Updates
- Nepal Clean Home Delivery Kit: Evaluation of the Health Impact
Author: Tsu V
Publication date: 2000
Region: Asia
- New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies
The Caucus on New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies is a community of practice established under the auspices of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, for which PATH serves as Secretariat. Caucus members developed this series of peer-reviewed briefs on underused reproductive health technologies. Responsibility for the selection and contents of the briefs rests solely with the Caucus and does not imply endorsement of any single technology by the Coalition or its wider membership. The briefs are available in one combined file as well as separately. For more information on the Caucus, please visit http://rhsupplies.org/index.php?id=894 or contact secretariat@rhsupplies.org.
Publication date: May 2012
Region: Global
- Newborn Thermal Care Devices: Establishing a Value Proposition for Low-Resource Settings
Interventions to regulate the temperature of a newborn are critical. They must be simple, easy to use, easy to maintain, culturally appropriate, and effective. This report details PATH’s exploration of newborn thermal care devices and evaluates them for particular health settings. The report includes a product inventory, device evaluation matrices, and recommendations for future development of thermal care devices.
Publication date: December 2009
Region: Global

