Launch of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response Capacity Building Materials

The Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO Geneva and USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership launched the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) Capacity Building Materials. This package was jointly developed by MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF and is updated to reflect the latest […]

Lessons from engaging the private sector in delivering quality MNH services in Nigeria

The Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria shared their findings and next steps on engaging the private sector for quality MNCH care in this webinar. The Quality of Care Network in partnership with WHO is exploring mechanisms for engaging the private sector in delivering maternal and newborn health services with quality. Beginning with scoping exercises in […]

Quality of care assessment tool for maternal and newborn care in hospitals: Learning experience from 25 countries & 133 hospitals across 5 regions

The Integrated Maternal, Newborn & Paediatric quality of care assessment and improvement tool in hospitals allows use of a standard-based audit approach towards engaging hospitals in firstly assessing all key domains relevant to quality of health care for maternal, newborn & child health, secondly, in developing action plans for quality improvement at hospital and national […]

Respectful maternal, newborn and young child care

Summary:  This webinar presented findings from the Breakthrough Research partnership on respectful care in Kenya and how it might inform interventions to provide respectful care to newborns and young infants during the COVID-19 response. An example from India on the challenges of maintaining respectful care during COVID19 was also shared. A representative from the White Ribbon […]

Deliver the care they are entitled to (session 2)

PRESENTATIONS ARE POSTED IN THE RIGHT HAND MENU To end preventable newborn and child deaths, care for small and sick newborns requires: High coverage of quality neonatal services, with family-centered models of care, organized in a network of facilities with a functional referral system Sufficient numbers of health-care providers with skills to care for small […]

Approaches to support quality improvement teams to use quality improvement techniques

The Quality of Care Network held a webinar on ‘Approaches to support quality improvement teams to use quality improvement techniques’. Maureen Tshabalala highlighted the key drivers for quality improvement for maternal and newborn health at the facility level. She told the stories of two quality improvement collaboratives in South Africa and Malawi, which demonstrated the […]