USAID and the ACCESS Program invite you to:
A Practical Look at Scaling Up Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions: The ACCESS Experience
10 June 2008
Registration: 8:45am - 9:15am
Event time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW
13th Floor
Washington, DC
Nearest Metro stop: Metro Center
ACCESS field representatives from Africa and Asia will present their experiences in scaling up maternal and newborn health interventions. Technical approaches will include: increasing coverage and improving quality of skilled birth attendance, expanding prevention of malaria in pregnancy through focused antenatal care, using the community action cycle and home visits to increase the use of healthy maternal and newborn behaviors, and preventing of post partum hemorrhage.
Registration for this event is now closed.
About ACCESS
The ACCESS Program is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s
global program to improve maternal and newborn health. The ACCESS Program 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.
Jhpiego implements the program in partnership with Save the
Children, Constella Futures, the Academy for Educational Development, the American
College of Nurse-Midwives and IMA World Health.
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