Journal article
Early postnatal home visits: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators to achieving high coverageA paper co-authored by Yared Amare, Pauline Scheelbeek and IDEAS team members Zelee Hill, Joanna Schellenberg, and Della Berhanu and published in...
Journal article
Linking data sources for measurement of effective coverage in maternal and newborn health: what do we learn from individual- vs ecological-linking methods?Methods We used data from Mayuge District, Uganda. Data from household surveys on access to SBA were linked to health facility assessment census...
News
“To know what is happening to women and newborns you need to collect accurate information” Preparing for a health facility survey in NigeriaOne way to measure whether the partner projects that IDEAS works with are making a difference is by continuously checking in with the people and...
News
Technical consultations on postnatal carePostnatal care can be provided at home or at a health facility. International data however shows that compared to other maternal and newborn...
News
Where do we stand? Monitoring and measuring progress in maternal, newborn and child healthA new article, published in The Lancet journal, looks at the current status of monitoring and measurement in RMNCAH&N. The article points out...
News
Measuring coverage of essential maternal and newborn care interventions: An unfinished agendaOne of the articles in the collection is entitled Measuring coverage of essential maternal and newborn care interventions: An...
News
Better health through better dataThese meetings are known as “Data Driven Learning Workshops”. Led by the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency (GSPHCDA) the...
Report
Informed Decisions for Actions in Maternal and Newborn Health 2010–17 ReportBack in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle developed a new strategy for the coming years, outlining how they might achieve...
Past event
Quality of Community Based Newborn Care in EthiopiaCommunity-Based Newborn Care (CBNC) is an Ethiopian national initiative launched in March 2013 as a means of bringing life-saving care to mothers...
Report
Changes in maternal and newborn health care in EthiopiaThe aim of this study was to estimate changes in maternal and newborn health care in areas of Ethiopia where implementation projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were operating.