As the work of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week continues in New York, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa was glad to be present at the Devex Impact House for Everyday Impact: Scaling Postpartum Haemorrhage Prevention and Treatment Innovations, convened in partnership with MSD for Mothers.

Postpartum haemorrhage remains among the foremost causes of maternal death across the world, and it remains a cause that we have long known how to prevent and to treat, which is what makes each loss so difficult to accept. Moderated by Ms Rumbi Chakamba of Devex, the discussion brought together Dr Tomi Coker of the Ogun State Ministry of Health, Dr Uchenna Igbokwe of the Solina Centre for International Development and Research, Dr Bashir Issak of the Ministry of Health of Kenya, and colleagues from Jhpiego and LifeNet International, on what is required to carry proven innovation out of the pilot and into the routine practice of a health system, where it belongs.

This is the work at the core of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa’s mission, through the training of midwives, nurses, and frontline health workers, and through the antenatal and postnatal education that our midwives deliver to mothers in their thousands across Nigeria under MamaCare360. Where the science has been settled for some time, it is the delivery that must now command our attention, so that care for women, children and adolescents is within reach across the life course, and I invite our partners across government, industry and philanthropy to hold that ambition alongside us.

 

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