Integrated Maternal and Newborn Care
Location
Morogoro Region, Tanzania
Background
This study in Morogoro region of Tanzania is evaluating strategies for integrating care for HIV positive and negative mothers and infants.
Study Objectives
- Evaluate the Integrated Maternal and Newborn Health Care Program in Morogoro Region, Tanzania being implemented by the Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare with technical support from Jhpiego and other partners to allow program leaders to adjust program implementation strategies
- Identify optimal strategies for sustaining the delivery of evidence-based, cost-effective, culturally acceptable, and integrated maternal newborn care interventions with attention to both HIV positive and negative mothers and infants
- Disseminate lessons learned and provide policy support to help scale-up tested strategies throughout Tanzania
Key Facts
- Postpartum care presents a critical gap in service provision for mothers and newborns in Tanzania
- Effectively scaling up evidence-based approaches to substantially reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths is a significant challenge
- The program being evaluated was designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) through integrating facility-based and community-based care
- Monitoring, documentation and evaluation to incrementally improve implementation from the outset of a project are critical
- Feedback can ensure service availability, quality, coverage and integration across programs at scale throughout sub-Saharan Africa
Learn More
- Jhpiego Facilitates Efforts for Innovative, Future Community Health Initiatives in Tanzania
- Impact of packaged interventions on neonatal health: a review of the evidence
- Systematic scaling up of neonatal care in countries
Principal Investigator
Abdullah H. Baqui, JHSPH
Local Principal Investigator
Japhet Killewo, MUHAS
Funding
- USAID
Study Team
- JHSPH
- Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)
- Jhpiego