To expand the reach of Hear Her resources for healthcare professionals and American Indian and Alaska Native communities in the United States and conduct exploratory formative work to determine the feasibility of a new segment of the campaign to reach a global audience.
To strengthen pregnancy surveillance and service delivery as part of the antenatal and postnatal care research collective at the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance site in Kenya.
To build state capacity within the existing jurisdiction-based maternal mortality review committee infrastructure to review and prevent overdose deaths during and after pregnancy.
A region in Tanzania that focused on improving obstetric care services potentially averted an estimated 2,100 maternal deaths between 2011–2018, according to data released today by the CDC Foundation. The data include the results of treatment provided by all emergency obstetric care facilities in the Kigoma Region, where maternal deaths were among the highest in Tanzania, a nation which has the sixth highest number of maternal deaths in the world.