Saving mothers’ lives in Kano, Northern Nigeria

The long view: Our support to Nepal’s health sector over 25 years

When I was asked to reflect on our work in Nepal, I didn’t know where to begin – I’ve been working intermittently with the team for 20 years! It started in 2003, when I moved with my…

Using quality of institutional care (QuIC) assessments to strengthen emergency obstetric and newborn care services

In Kenya, around 5,000 maternal deaths, nearly 29,000 newborn deaths and over 31,000 stillbirths occur each year because of the poor quality of health care. This brief demonstrates…

Health worker mentorship: building skills to save lives

In most parts of Kenya, the majority of maternal deaths happen at high volume tertiary facilities that receive referrals of obstetric and newborn complications from lower level facilities. In Bungoma…

Factors impacting continuous availability of comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care services in Nepal

First facility since Ebola ready to provide EmONC in Sierra Leone

An assessment, conducted in November 2015, reported that the hospital, located in the hard to reach district of Pujehun, is now fully EmONC compliant, meaning that the facility met the necessary…

E4A plays critical role in launch of Countdown Case Study on Malawi

Last week, the Lancet Global Health published a new Countdown case study on Malawi and how it met Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4, to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds by 2015.…