Second annual meeting of MotherNewBorNet at Delhi in July 2006

Second annual meeting of MotherNewBorNet at Delhi in July 2006

Announcement
 
Second Annual Meeting of MotherNewBorNet
 
9 to 11 July 2006 | Taj Palace Hotel | Delhi, India
 

Global commitment for reducing maternal and child mortality has been reaffirmed by the governments through the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. Emanating from the Millennium Declaration, commitment to eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) united countries around the world in the fight against poverty, illiteracy, gender discrimination, maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases (e.g. AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria), and environmental degradation. The targets for MDG 4 and MDG 5 are to reduce under-five mortality by two thirds and the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters between 1990-2015. As most of the mothers and children die at the community level in the developing countries and neonatal deaths account for 54 percent of all infant deaths, there is an urgent need to scale up evidence-based interventions to prevent maternal and newborn deaths in the community.   
 
USAID’s (United States Agency for International Development) BASICS (Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival) project, and ICDDR,B: center for Health and Population Research are jointly hosting the second annual meeting of MotherNewBorNetwith the aim to move research into practice with the aim to move research into practice to improve maternal and neonatal health at the community level to support achievement of MDG 4 and 5 in Asia and Near east region.
 
Key themes for the meeting

    A. Community based management of maternal and newborn infections (including maternal morbidity data, postpartum visitation schedule)
    B. Prevention of postpartum hemorrhage
    C. Care of the low birth weight babies
    D. Birth spacing

 
Objectives for the meeting
 
- Provide technical update on research and programs for the health and survival of mothers and newborns in the community
- Identify gaps in research, program and advocacy to address maternal and newborn health as a dyad
- Reach consensus on steps to be taken by specific countries in the reasons to take maternal and newborn health interventions to scale
- Determine collaboration/partnership opportunities among the members of the network
- Build consensus on the future directions of MotherNewBorNet and identify key roles and responsibilities
 
Therefore, the meeting will provide the participants with opportunities to listen to state-of-the-art interventions and research, explore and share innovative approaches to maternal and newborn health, discuss challenges for scaling up evidence-based interventions to prevent maternal and newborn deaths in the community, debate on different approaches, decide on scaling up maternal and newborn health interventions in the community, plan for concerted actions, and build collaboration or partnership with organizations from different countries. Participants will also have scope of reflecting on how they will apply new learning to their own settings and developing specific action plan to contribute to the reduction of maternal and newborn death in the region. The meeting will bring leading clinical experts, researchers, and program managers from different countries to speak during theme specific sessions.

About global projects of USAID and MotherNewBorNet

ACCESS
 
The ACCESS Program is USAID’s global program to improve maternal and newborn health. ACCESS works to expand coverage, access and use of key maternal and newborn health services across a continuum of care from the household to the hospital—with the aim of making quality health services accessible for women and newborns. The current program, ACCESS, is a partnership among six organizations (JHPIEGO, Save the Children, Futures, AED, ACNM and the InterChurch Medical Assistance) that are collaborating to rapidly expand community and clinical health services for women and newborns in developing countries.
 
BASICS
 
The BASICS (Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival) project is supported by USAID to fight needless childhood deaths in the developing world. Supporting families and communities, the project helps to expand effective child health interventions e.g. newborn health, vitamin A supplementation and other essential nutrition actions, immunization, pediatric AIDS, treatment of diarrhea and pneumonia, and control of malaria. BASICS is an important vehicle for carrying out USAID’s child survival agenda that has been active since 1985, when Congress created the Child Survival Program.
 
ESD
 
The Essential Service Delivery (ESD) Project is a five-year, USAID-funded initiative aimed at increasing the availability and use of quality reproductive health and family planning services in developing countries. Under the management of Pathfinder International, ESD is implemented in partnership with Management Sciences for Health, IntraHealth International, Meridian Group International, Inc., and the International Center for Migration and Health.
 
JHU/GRA
 
The Johns Hopkins University/Global Research Activities (JHU/GRA) is supported by USAID to expand global research activities with a focus on USAID’s goals of developing initiatives and programs to improve the health and nutrition of mothers and children worldwide. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health lead a consortium of institutions in the global research activities, which includes the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research,International Clinical Epidemiology Network,Boston University Center for International Health,Save the Children USA, and Helen Keller Worldwide.
 
MotherNewBorNet
 
MotherNewBorNet was established in April 2005 to facilitate translation of research into practice for ensuring survival and well being of mothers and newborns in the community. It is currently hosted by ICDDR,B: Center for Health and Population Research with financial assistance from USAID through the Global Research Activity (GRA) of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Technical support to MotherNewBorNet is provided by USAID’s Global Health Bureau and its global projects including ACCESS, BASICS, ESD, JHU/GRA and POPPHI. The members of this network include organizations from Asia and Near East that are implementing maternal and newborn health programs.
 
POPPHI
 
The Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI) is a USAID-funded three-year project focusing on the reduction of postpartum hemorrhage, the single most important cause of maternal deaths worldwide. The POPPHI project is led by PATH and includes four partners: RTI International, EngenderHealth, FIGO, and ICM.
 
More information
 
For additional information please contact Naomi Brill (nbrill@basics.org) with a copy to Malay Kanti Mridha (malay@icddrb.org)

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