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Integrated Maternal and Newborn Care

Location

Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Background

This study in Morogoro region of Tanzania is evaluating strategies for integrating care for HIV positive and negative mothers and infants. 

Study Objectives

  • Evaluate the Integrated Maternal and Newborn Health Care Program in Morogoro Region, Tanzania being implemented by the Tanzania Ministry of Health and Social Welfare with technical support from Jhpiego and other partners to allow program leaders to adjust program implementation strategies
  • Identify optimal strategies for sustaining the delivery of evidence-based, cost-effective, culturally acceptable, and integrated maternal newborn care interventions with attention to both HIV positive and negative mothers and infants
  • Disseminate lessons learned and provide policy support to help scale-up tested strategies throughout Tanzania

Key Facts

  • Postpartum care presents a critical gap in service provision for mothers and newborns in Tanzania
  • The program being evaluated was designed to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) through integrating facility-based and community-based care
  • Monitoring, documentation and evaluation to incrementally improve implementation from the outset of a project are critical
  • Feedback can ensure service availability, quality, coverage and integration across programs at scale throughout sub-Saharan Africa

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Principal Investigator

Abdullah H. Baqui, JHSPH 

Local Principal Investigator

Japhet Killewo, MUHAS

Funding

  • USAID

Study Team