Advancing access to maternal health care to meet unmet medical needs

Nigeria is experiencing some of the highest incidence of maternal mortality globally. Widening access to health insurance across the country may be central to addressing the problem.

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The opportunity for innovation in the local private health sector is enormous, especially in lower-income markets. Early lessons from the MOMs initiative show what's possible.

By Mark Allen, Joanna Bichsel, Monisha Ashok

At the 77th session of the World Health Assembly, leaders discussed greater private sector participation to advance progress on maternal mortality reduction. Learn how strategies ...

By Temitayo Erogbogbo, Dr. Muyi Aina

Experts reflect on achieving sustainable approaches to improve maternal health and achieve health care through strategic private-sector collaborations, including remarks from the 78 ...

By Dr. George Uzonwanne, Mara Hansen

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health success stories in history, but they don't always reach those who need them. How can we help? Andrew (Drew) Otoo, PharmD, president of global vaccines at MSD, shares his thoughts..

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Sustainable Development Goal 17 calls for greater private sector participation to support the achievement of the global goals but how can that be done in practice to help improve maternal ...

By Iain Barton

In Nigeria, post-partum hemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal mortality. Health tech startup LifeBank is hoping to change that by providing lifesaving blood supplies to hospitals.

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Devex sat down with Carmen Villar, the vice president of social business innovation at MSD, to learn more about MSD's impact investment strategy and how it's helping to advance health equity.

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WHO's Blerta Maliqi explains where she sees the private sector tying into efforts to improve health for women and children, how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted its role in health systems...

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Digital technologies offer an opportunity to improve maternal health outcomes, but this will only be fully tapped with government leadership, private sector engagement, and human-centered design.

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Better use of data and national health insurance are key to integrating private sector players into health systems and closing the maternal health funding gap.

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Is a lack of private sector governance expertise holding back global COVID-19 responses? The World Health Organization's David Clarke discusses the challenges countries are facing and how the health body's new strategy might help.

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USAID's Alma Golden discusses why a culture of accountability and transparency matters when it comes to preventing maternal and child deaths.

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The Global Fund's Bianca Drebber explains the role the private sector can play in the RMNCAH space and how The Global Fund is leveraging its expertise in data and other areas.

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A panel of experts discussed the private sector's role in advancing universal health coverage for mothers and children, including health system weaknesses exposed by COVID-19 and how private capital can help address funding gaps.

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Local private sector providers play an important role in maternal health, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Catch up on the main takeaways from a virtual roundtable conversation exploring how to better measure and understand the role of local private sector providers in delivering quality care.

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How do we design quality care interventions that truly serve the needs of all women? A variety of ways of doing this were discussed at Devex's Prescription for Progress: Bringing health solutions to scale conference.

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An estimated $33 billion shortfall affects reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health. Devex explores how using data in the right way can help attract new funding...

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Manyata, India’s quality-improvement and certification program, aims to improve adherence to clinical standards among private maternity facilities in India — where almost half of women who deliver in facilities choose to go. So far, the program has reached over 400 hospitals in five Indian states. What will it take to scale?

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The private sector plays a critical role in women's reproductive and maternal health. But achieving SDG targets will require engaging the full spectrum of private sector expertise. How? Devex takes a deeper look.

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Here are the biggest takeaways from the 72nd World Health Assembly.

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Affordable, quality primary health services for hard-to-reach populations often living below the poverty line is critical to achieving universal health coverage in Africa, yet experts warn the road to UHC for each country will be unique.

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We are armed with the knowledge to end preventable deaths among all women, children, and adolescents; why are we still seeing distressingly high mortality rates among these populations?

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The first call for proposals for the Fund for Elimination of Viral Hepatitis, or EndHep2030, the world's only corpus dedicated to the elimination of viral hepatitis, is expected to take place in April.

Jenny Lei Ravelo

Mary-Ann Etiebet from MSD for Mothers explains why the private sector's role in development work has to move beyond financing.

By Natalie Donback

Heads of state gathered at the Africa Business Health Forum this week to share ways they are already engaging private companies to improve...

By Christin Roby

The first call for proposals for the Fund for Elimination of Viral Hepatitis, or EndHep2030, the world's only corpus dedicated to the elimination of viral hepatitis, is expected to take place in April.

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The fight against noncommunicable diseases needs to account for outdated health care systems. Here are three lessons for reform from a community-based care initiative in Ghana.

By Dr. Ann Aerts, Peter Lamptey

As the U.K. development finance institution ramps up investments in private health care, it wants to understand the impact it has on the broader health ecosystem in lower-income countries.

Sophie Edwards

Six global health leaders lay out guiding principles to keep maternal health at the top of the priority list — and maintain momentum — in the effort to achieve universal health coverage.

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Nigeria remains heavily reliant on foreign funding for programs tackling polio, malaria, HIV, and more. Is it ready for those flows to stop? April.

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Each year around 70,000 women die due to excessive bleeding after childbirth, known as postpartum hemorrhage. A new, heat-stable drug called carbetocin could have the potential to save tens of thousands of lives.

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Ensuring that mothers who have just given birth have immediate access to a full range ...

Mindy Neiman, Maryjane Lacoste

The first Global Financing Facility annual report details gains by Tanzania, DRC, and Cameroon, including that Tanzania has increased its number of high-performing health facilities to 22 percent from 1 percent.

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Between 1990-2016, India’s maternal mortality rate has dropped by 77% from 556 to 130 deaths per 100,000 live births. Despite these gains, however, the country still has the second highest number of maternal deaths per year globally.

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How can technology improve the quality of care that nurses and midwives are able to provide to expectant mothers and their newborns? From Nairobi, Devex takes a look.

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