{"id":16211,"date":"2016-05-03T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T17:04:22","slug":"mexico-city-copenhagen-keeping-promise-mothers-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/blog\/mexico-city-copenhagen-keeping-promise-mothers-newborns\/","title":{"rendered":"After Mexico City and Before Copenhagen: Keeping Our Promise to Mothers and Newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published on\u00a0Maternal Health Task Force<\/a>.
\nBy Kayla McGowan, Project Coordinator, Women and Health Initiative<\/a>, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health<\/em><\/p>\n

Six months after the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference<\/a> (GMNHC) held in Mexico City last October and just weeks before the Women Deliver<\/a> Conference in Copenhagen, leaders in maternal and newborn health gathered for a policy dialogue to review priorities, evaluate progress, and reignite efforts in the maternal newborn health field. The April 13 event, \u201cAfter Mexico City and Before Copenhagen: Keeping Our Promise to Mothers and Newborns<\/a>,\u201d was part of the Maternal Health Task Force\u2019s\u00a0Advancing Policy Dialogue on Maternal Health Series<\/a>, in partnership with\u00a0UNFPA<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Wilson Center<\/a>. It served as a\u00a0reflection of the lessons learned at GMNHC<\/a> as well as preparation for achieving the maternal newborn health agenda through an advocacy lens at Women Deliver. As Katja Iversen, Chief Executive Officer of Women Deliver, projected, \u201cThe Women Deliver Conference will focus on solutions: what works, what can be scaled up, and what can we go home and do?\u201d<\/p>\n

With the recent launch of the\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals<\/a> (SDGs), which target a reduction in the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births, universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, and the end of\u00a0preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age\u00a0by 2030, now is the time to decide which steps we need to take to achieve these objectives. Despite strides in maternal mortality reduction, the maternal and newborn health community must remain ardent in its commitment to mothers and newborns. As Mariam Claeson, Director of Maternal and Newborn Child Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, articulated:<\/p>\n

\u201c[Targets like the SDGs] hold all of us accountable for making progress. That\u2019s why we need numbers and rates, and we need to ask the questions, \u2018Are we making a difference in poor communities? Are we actually making any changes in quality improvement?\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While we set the agenda for improving maternal and newborn health, we must consider where our efforts will be most efficient and effective. During the dialogue, Claeson cited a recent review of key findings<\/a> on cost-effective health interventions for reducing maternal, newborn and child deaths, and stillbirths. According to Claeson, \u201cOne of the most important investments that financers can make is in the quality of labor and delivery.\u201d Claeson explained that better labor and delivery offers a quadruple return on investment, including reduced rates of maternal mortality, newborn mortality, stillbirth, and disability.<\/p>\n

Ariel Pablos-M\u00e9ndez, Assistant Administrator of Global Health at the United States Agency for International Development, continued the conversation on the importance of investing in maternal and newborn health. He praised the innovative global financing facility<\/a>, launched to increase private-sector resources in maternal, adolescent, and child health, as the \u201cmissing piece in the maternal child health space.\u201d Pablos-M\u00e9ndez described the platform as \u201ccountry-powered partnerships, public and private, in which the World Bank \u2026 is set up with trust funds to bring the countries themselves, the Ministers of Finance, to put skin in the game.\u201d He emphasized that the maternal newborn health community must support other countries in becoming autonomous in their maternal child health initiatives. According to Pablos-M\u00e9ndez,<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we project growth in many of these countries, we want to borrow from the future to save lives now, have countries own their own programs, and instead of sending proposals, develop joint investment cases at the country-level that are fully aligned with the national health plans and priorities of those countries.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peter Waiswa, Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management at Uganda\u2019s Makerere University School of Public Health, echoed the importance of retaining efforts at the country-level: \u201cIf we are to achieve the [SDG] targets, countries <\/em>have to lead\u2026 Measurement alone is not enough, the data must be able to be used; first at the local level, and then at the national level.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Pablos-M\u00e9ndez commended GMNHC for catalyzing efforts among country partners to end preventable maternal and child deaths, other presenters illustrated the conference\u2019s immediate impact by providing examples of post-GMNHC policy changes and program implementation. For example, as a direct result of lessons learned at the conference, policy makers in India were able to introduce a new approach to training providers on reducing preterm birth risks. According to Jyoti Benawri, State Program Manager of Jhpiego, \u201cWe have been able to push the government to introduce one entire chapter in our curriculum on how to prevent neonatal mortality and how to introduce antenatal corticosteroids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speakers also offered renewed insight on the GMNHC themes of equity, quality and integration of maternal newborn health care. A central theme of the dialogue was the importance of data in planning and implementing effective programs and strategies. However, while crucial, data can conceal inequities. As such, Waiswa called for disaggregation and context-specific indices within health measures. \u00a0He stressed the importance of reviewing data by geography, age groups, and socioeconomic status while acknowledging the inherent challenges in this more nuanced approach, such as income levels that fluctuate with harvest seasons.<\/p>\n

The dialogue centered on the importance of delivering quality care to mothers and newborns. As presenters agreed, one way to expedite quality care is to ensure policymakers, leaders, the media, and women themselves can understand and act on technical evidence. Unfortunately, this type of information is often understood by an exclusive few. According to Catherine Mwesigwa Kizza, Deputy Director of New Vision in Uganda, \u201cMany times, evidence is gathered and it remains with the technocrats\u2026 it\u2019s never interpreted.\u201d When research is broken down and translated into language that policymakers and local leaders can understand, they can spur action themselves. Furthermore, this can spark change at the individual level: when women are aware of certain danger signs in pregnancy or know what to expect at a health facility, they can demand quality services.<\/p>\n

Data has a strong influence on delivering quality care. Waiswa explained, \u201cUsing data to drive quality improvement, to drive audits, and to drive lobbying for staff\u2026 has been able to reduce maternal death in hospitals in Uganda by about 18% and neonatal deaths by about 20%.\u201d But we must steer away from relying solely on data; we must maintain an approach that balances both data and quality measures. For example, according to Claeson, \u201cIt\u2019s not about counting how many times a mother interacts with antenatal services or comes to the facility, but it\u2019s what happens in these encounters that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the dialogue highlighted the importance of collaboration and integration. Ana Langer, Director of the Women and Health Initiative and Maternal Health Task Force at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, urged the community to unite in reaching the SDGs:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe advocate for better integration: integration of strategies, integration of services, integration of funding streams. We cannot afford working in silos any longer; it\u2019s detrimental for mothers, babies, families, and communities in general.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To focus the community\u2019s efforts to achieve the SDGs, Langer presented the Momentum for Maternal Newborn Health poster<\/a>, a roadmap of ten critical actions stemming from GMNHC. The next steps serve as key reminders and responsibilities for the maternal and newborn health community, including maintaining focus on vulnerable populations, sharing both successes and failures, and ensuring access to respectful care. With the SDGs, the maternal newborn health community\u2019s attention must go beyond mortality; we must also focus on morbidities, stillbirths, and child development. As Langer said, \u201cWe don\u2019t just want people to survive, but we also want them to thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: After Mexico City<\/a><\/i>, courtesy of the\u00a0Wilson Center Maternal Health Initiative<\/i><\/p>\n

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Video: 2015\u00a0Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xdGGJ_MnwKY\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The GFF was launched at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in July 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/issues\/newborn-mortality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newborn mortality<\/a> is included among the core impact indicators for tracking progress.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_empty_space][vc_video link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EeD7rkmVkBU\"][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/globalfinancingfacility.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GFF website in Support of Every Woman Every Child by World Bank Group<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywomaneverychild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Woman Every Child<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2015\/07\/13\/global-financing-facility-launched-with-billions-already-mobilized-to-end-maternal-and-child-mortality-by-2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Financing Facility Launched with Billions Already Mobilized to End Maternal and Child Mortality by 2030<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalfinancingfacility.org\/global-financing-facility-business-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Financing Facility in Support of Every Woman Every Children: The Business Plan<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"Global Financing Facility","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"global-financing-facility","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-20 16:12:23","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-20 20:12:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=429","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":135,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:20:52","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:20:52","post_content":"[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>Many countries, even those that have achieved improvements in the last 15 years, still experience high rates of maternal and newborn deaths due to poor quality services.<\/h2>\r\nPoor quality can affect the demand for care from communities. Accelerating reduction of preventable deaths and poor outcomes depends on service quality improvements, including addressing health system challenges such as infrastructure, supplies, skilled and appropriately deployed health providers, and management. Quality improvement systems that address both the content and standards as well as the process and experience of care should be an important area of investment during the period of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_single_image image=\"13784\"][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=\"16px\"][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"Quality improvement","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"quality-improvement","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2016-02-25 15:58:05","post_modified_gmt":"2016-02-25 20:58:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=135","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":323,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2016-01-12 17:55:54","post_date_gmt":"2016-01-12 17:55:54","post_content":"<p>[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453922923730{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>As reflected in Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 and now the Sustainable Development Goals, our objective is to <strong>reduce the global burden of preventable deaths<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>In the case of newborn work, we focus particularly on stillbirths, maternal deaths, and newborn deaths. Meeting our objectives at the level of whole populations requires that we do much better in ensuring that the highest proportion possible adopt key practices and receive specific interventions. We need <strong>high effective coverage at scale<\/strong> for key behaviors and specific high-impact elements of care. While \u201cscaling-up\u201d may be part of how we achieve sustained impact at scale, we must guard against scale-up as an end in itself. It is easy to fall into the \u201cempty scale-up\u201d trap.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">287<\/span>k<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1690998058971{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of women who died due to pregnancy or childbirth-related complications in 2020<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">5<\/span>m<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1651603452364{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of children under age 5 who died in 2020<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-blue\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">47<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1651603474028{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of all under-5 deaths that occurred during the first 28 days of life in 2020<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a> page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Where effective coverage is low, program efforts need to contribute to increasing and sustaining improved coverage. In some instances the interventions are already available and in use but at low effective coverage. In these cases improved delivery is needed \u2013 which may entail strengthened implementation or new delivery strategies. In situations where effective interventions are novel and not yet widely introduced, these methods may require some kind of scaling-up process to increase coverage. Because there are important differences between settings, a specific strategy or package will not be the answer for all settings.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Key resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expandnet.net\/tools.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Expandnet scale-up resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msiworldwide.com\/sites\/default\/files\/additional-resources\/2018-11\/ScalingUp_3rdEdition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scaling Up\u2014From Vision to Large-scale Change: A Management Framework for Practitioners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/implementationscience.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s13012-016-0374-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A framework for scaling up health interventions: lessons from large-scale improvement initiatives in Africa.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsprogram.org\/resources\/lessons-learned-from-the-scale-up-experience-of-six-high-impact-interventions-in-reproductive-maternal-newborn-and-child-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lessons Learned from the Scale-Up Experience of Six High-Impact Interventions in Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Related\u00a0resources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Empty-Scale-up-Meeting-Report.pdf\">Empty Scale-Up Meeting Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Empty-Scale-Up-Working-Paper_Dec2016.pdf\">Empty Scale-Up\u00a0Draft Working Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=\"Scaling Up Substance Working Group\" color=\"1\" link=\"url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthynewbornnetwork.org%2Fworking-group%2Fscaling-up-substance%2F||\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Note: This working group is for members only. 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