extending resources to save mothers' lives
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Advancing Change Through Innovation To save mothers’ lives, Pathfinder leverages every resource. Seven private investments have expanded Pathfinder’s innovative approach to preventing, identifying, and managing postpartum hemorrhage from two to five countries. These investments have laid the groundwork for global impact on maternal mortality.TRANSCRIPT
More than 10,259 women register with “Mayer Shasthya,” Pathfinder’s postpartum hemor-
rhage project (Bangladesh) as of June 2010
$ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funds Pathfinder’s postpartum hemorrhage efforts in refugee camps in Tanzania 2009
$ Pathfinder’s Board of Directors allocates private funds to expand Pathfinder’s postpartum hemorrhage work to Bangladesh and Peru 2009
Nigeria
Pathfinder increases access to emergency blood supplies by mobilizing com-munities to donate and by establishing a blood bank
(Nigeria) 2009-2010
Pathfinder supports the Ministry of Women Affairs to
provide and expand the use of the NASG to primary and secondary health facilities
(Nigeria) 2010
Pathfinder’s training is incorporated in the curriculum
of 88 midwifery schools (Nigeria) 2009-2010
PATHFINDER DEVELOPS A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL to build national government support, enable essential clinical interventions, and develop local government and community-wide knowledge and commitment to preventing and managing postpartum hemorrhage. 2007
India
Pathfinder’s comprehensive kit to reverse life-threatening shock is stored in emergency rooms and labor and delivery
wards (India) 2009
Pathfinder’s training curriculum is gradually
incorporated into state-level basic emergency obstetric
care (India) 2009-2010
$ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funds a project to address maternal mortality in India and Nigeria 2007
PeruBangladesh
A Delivery Bag, containing a flip booklet for
low-literacy audiences, emergency medication, a blood loss measuring
mat, and a safe delivery kit, is developed for use in home births
(Bangladesh) 2009
Pathfinder trains the International Red Cross Society to prevent and manage postpartum hemorrhage in refugee settings
(Tanzania) 2010
Pathfinder begins to collaborate with the Women’s
Refugee Commission to improve maternal health care for
crisis-affected populations (Tanzania) 2009
Pathfinder advocates with Ministry of Health officials
and key leaders in medical education and professional associations to
promote the non-pneumatic, anti-shock garment (Peru)
2009-2010
Pathfinder provides regional workshops on the non-pneumatic, anti-shock garment for emergency obstetric care
providers (Peru) 2009-2010
$ UNFPA funds help build the capacity of 20 health facilities to receive Pathfinder training and the non-pneumatic, anti-shock garment in Nigeria 2009
$ World Bank supports Pathfinder’s efforts to prevent and manage postpartum hemorrhage in Bangladesh 2010
$ $Cloverleaf Foundation funds a solar-powered blood transfusion service in Nigeria 2010
UNFPA funds a series of work-shops on emergency obstetric care, incorporating the use of the non-pneumatic, anti-shock garment in Peru 2010
Tanzania
WORLDWIDE REPLICATION OF PATHFINDER’S MODEL IS NOW ACHIEVABLE. Governments and partner organizations can scale up interventions to combat postpartum hemorrhage using Pathfinder’s Global Training Curriculum, Tool Kit, and Training Film. These robust tools promote the expansion of Pathfinder’s comprehensive approach to saving mothers’ lives. 2010