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Overview
The ACCESS Program, a Leader With Associates (LWA)
cooperative agreement, was awarded in 2004 to Jhpiego and includes Save the Children,
Constella Futures, the Academy for Educational Development, the American
College of Nurse-Midwives and IMA World Health in its partnership.
ACCESS is the centerpiece activity in support of the
Bureau for Global Health’s Strategic Objective for Maternal Health.
The program represents a consolidation of USAID’s
past investments in maternal, newborn and women’s health. It emphasizes
expanded coverage and access to—and use of—key services and interventions at the
household and community levels.
To ensure improved outcomes for mothers and their newborns, the
ACCESS Program works to scale up proven best practices in essential maternal and
newborn care such as the prevention of malaria in pregnancy and the reduction of
bleeding in childbirth or postpartum hemorrhage—the leading cause of maternal death
worldwide.
The center of the ACCESS Program’s
programming approach is the mother/newborn dyad, integrating maternal and newborn care and ensuring
that mother and baby both receive essential health and nutrition services at a
high-impact level. The program supports and promotes a continuum of
care in women’s health across the life cycle—focusing on women of reproductive
age and extending, where opportunities exist, to younger and older women.
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