Every year, 14 million women experience postpartum hemorrhage, with one dying every six minutes, says the World Health Organization. For three years, Jhpiego staff participated in an international study that evaluated a new approach, called E-MOTIVE, to identify when a woman is losing too much blood following delivery and take action. The approach uses a
As the eagerly awaited malaria vaccine moves from trial to rollout, Jhpiego is using its 20 years of experience in malaria prevention and treatment—from promoting insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), to supporting seasonal malaria chemoprevention and intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp), to providing training to health care workers to test for and treat
It rains a lot in Diébougou in the Sud-Ouest region of Burkina Faso. This means that malaria transmission occurs throughout the year in this West African country, but it’s especially high during the peak season, which runs from June to October, increasing the importance of community-based health care. From the health facility in Diébougou, the
