Expanding Access to Postpartum Family Planning

Women in Burkina Faso are seeking comprehensive health services to safely plan their families. To meet this need, Burkina Faso is updating and strengthening the skills of health care providers, so they can offer a range of contraceptives to women immediately after childbirth.

5 Key Steps Toward Safer Surgeries

Developing leaders on surgical teams is a key strategy of the Safe Surgery 2020 Initiative now underway in Ethiopia; the goal is to deliver high-quality surgical services and reduce surgery-related deaths.

Making Surgery Work at a New Hospital

At the newly opened Dangila Hospital, surgical officers are empowered to identify problems and barriers to high-quality surgical care and drive the changes needed to improve services.