Primary Health Care

eLearning gets A-plus in Ghana

Instructor talking to students in a classroom with laptops.

With the Ghana Ministry of Health eLearning Secretariat, the U. S. Agency for International Development’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP), led by Jhpiego, has been deploying an eLearning platform called Moodle to midwifery and nursing schools across the country to great success.

HelloMama via Papa

A woman holds her baby as someone holds a cellphone with text.

A Nigerian father gets the message about maternal and newborn health. Several months ago, Israel Nwafor’s mobile phone buzzed with a message alerting him that “labor could start anytime now.” He read it in full, sharing aloud what he was learning about the signs of labor—some subtle, some not—with his wife, Monica, who, at the