The role of MPDSR in delivering quality care for maternal and newborn health
This webinar launched the Knowledge Brief ‘Implementation of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response as part of Quality of Care efforts for Maternal and Newborn Health: Considerations for synergy and alignment’. The webinar included a presentation on the content of the new Knowledge Brief presenting MPDSR as a key intervention to support the delivery […]
Integrating near miss in maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response
The Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO Geneva, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Pan American Health Organization hosted a webinar to explore regional approaches for integrating Near Miss into Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) systems. This webinar brought together experts and professionals from Latin […]
Strengthening Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response in Nigeria
This webinar shared experience and lessons learned in implementing the MPD-4-QED program in Nigeria. MPD-4-QED is a harmonized database that collects maternal and perinatal information during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and the postpartum period including on quality of care from 54 referral level hospitals in Nigeria. Representatives from Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria and MPD-4-QED program shared their […]
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 […]
Addressing inequalities through the MPDSR system: Lessons learned from Sierra Leone
On International Women’s Day 2022, March 8, 2022, the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO Geneva and the Network for Improving the Quality of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health hosted a webinar to share Sierra Leone’s experience in addressing preventable maternal and perinatal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth by implementing […]
Overcoming the blame culture in MPDSR
The webinar included a presentation on how to overcome blame culture in the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) process sharing 10 specific strategies on how to practically address this problem during MPDSR implementation. A rich panel comprised of representatives from Ghana, Namibia and Uganda discussed the strategies in light of their experiences, […]
A special focus on perinatal death reviews in MPDSR
This was the second webinar in a series focused on Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR). This webinar had a specific focus on perinatal death reviews. The experience from WHO’s PAHO region was shared and this includes the experience and lessons learned by implementers in a panel discussion with Guatemala’s MPDSR national committee […]
Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response: Materials to support implementation
This webinar launched the ‘Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response: Materials to support implementation’. It was hosted by the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (MCA), WHO and by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in collaboration with UNICEF and the Maternal and […]