Jakarta, Indonesia—Jhpiego and partner organizations recently launched the Expanding Maternal and Neonatal Survival (EMAS) program to help strengthen health services and reduce maternal deaths in the populous Southeast Asian country. The five-year, $55 million program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, is aimed at assisting the Indonesian Government with meeting its Millennium Development
Baltimore, Md.—From a university lab in Baltimore to a medical device powerhouse in Stavanger, Norway, a team of student biomedical engineers, public health experts and industrial innovators are on a mission to save the estimated 350,000 women who die each year while pregnant or giving birth and up to two million babies who die within
GE Foundation has awarded $1.6 million to Jhpiego, a global health nonprofit and Johns Hopkins University affiliate, to support a “partnership for innovation” that will develop low-cost, lifesaving technologies that can transform health care for women and children in developing countries. The two-year collaborative venture builds on Jhpiego’s pioneering innovations expertise and nearly 40 years
Every day 800 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Helena’s story shows us it doesn’t have to be this way.
