Maternal and Child Health

Jhpiego is working to improve the health of mothers and children in countries with limited resources and high rates of maternal and newborn mortality. Our programs and activities focus on promoting healthy pregnancies, safe childbirth and immediate and continuing care for mothers, babies and children. Drawing on our clinical expertise in obstetrics/gynecology, midwifery and pediatrics as well as our technical expertise in education, training, policy development, behavior change communication and social mobilization, Jhpiego with front-line health workers to improve health care and health behavior in the home, the community and health facilities.

Our programming emphases include:

• Promoting state-of-the-art approaches to preventing postpartum hemorrhage, mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS and malaria in pregnancy
   
• Establishing systems for training and education of maternal and newborn care providers
   
• Developing national guidelines to improve maternal and child health
   
• Strengthening maternal and newborn health care services
   
• Mobilizing community participation in safe motherhood and child health

Since 1998, Jhpiego has led the U.S. Agency for International Development's flagship global programs to increase maternal and newborn survival—the Maternal and Neonatal Health Program, as well as the ACCESS Program (and its associate award ACCESS-FP). The current program, ACCESS, is a partnership among six organizations that are collaborating to rapidly expand community and clinical health services for women and newborns in developing countries.

Awarded to Jhpiego and partners in September, 2008 is the Maternal Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP). MCHIP will work with USAID missions, governments, nongovernmental organizations, local communities and partner agencies in developing countries to implement programs at scale to achieve sustainable improvements.

Program Spotlight

"A few steps forward on a long, winding road: Jhpiego's work in malaria in pregnancy (MIP) in Nigeria"

Additional program spotlights are available in our Program Spotlight Archive.

More Information

For additional resources on maternal and child health, browse our Information Sheets and/or go to the Maternal and Child Health section of our Publications Catalog.