West Java, Indonesia—Neng Supartini, 24 years old and 38 weeks pregnant, climbed on a motorcycle for a downhill ride along a steep, narrow path to reach Ciparay Health Center, where she would give birth to her child. The trip took over an hour, with occasional stops to walk the motorc

The Day of Birth Alliance, a unique partnership between Laerdal Global Health, Jhpiego, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design (CBID), aims to develop new tools and technologies to help frontline health workers provide integrated care for mothers and babie

Lahore, Pakistan–Ayesha Sohail owns a small private health clinic in the Samanabad area of central Lahore in Punjab province. There, this Lady Health Visitor—a position similar to a skilled birth attendant in other parts of the world, with nearly three years of training—provides care

Jhpiego Pakistan, in collaboration with Saving Lives at Birth, conducted a study trial of a new, portable, low-cost training simulation model called Mama-U. Designed in partnership with Laerdal Global Health, the Mama-U was developed specifically to train health care providers on the

Churu, India–When veteran nurse Jaishree Darjee was invited to a Jhpiego-led training to strengthen maternal and newborn care, she was hesitant about going. Her absence from Bharatiya Hospital would surely burden an already understaffed maternal and newborn care unit, where nearly 7,0

Central Java, Indonesia—At Margono Hospital in Indonesia, doctors, midwives and nurses embrace a philosophy that every mother and every newborn should be treated as family and receive the kind of quality care that staff would demand for a wife, sister, daughter or son. Dr. Hendro B

Kota, India, January 2014—When Dr. Rajendra Prasad Rawat, the 55-year-old Medical Superintendent and Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Kota’s JK Lon Maternal and Child Care Hospital, first attended Jhpiego’s Clinical Skills Standardization (CSS) training course in November 2013, he

Dear friends, On behalf of the Jhpiego India family, I wish you and your family a happy, healthy and peaceful 2014! Looking back, 2013 was a great year! We at Jhpiego were able to strengthen our work across programs and impact the lives of millions of women, children and families—by p

Bulbul Sood, MBBS, MNAMS, MPH Country Director Dr. Bulbul Sood is a public health professional with more than 40 years of experience and was the Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at Delhi’s Medical College for 23 years. Dr. Sood has been Jhpiego’s India Country Director

India has embarked on an ambitious strategy that integrates reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCH+A) to address the major causes of mortality among women and children.