Technical Areas
Maternal and Newborn Care
USAID focuses its efforts on cost-effective
interventions that are feasible for implementation
in resource poor environments. Maternal health programs
build on available scientific evidence, current understanding
of the varied health infrastructure capability in
countries, and the need to achieve widespread public
health impact. Specific interventions for maternal
and newborn programs are chosen within the framework
of clinical determinants for healthy pregnancy outcome
in low resource environments. The framework
for this approach approach shows the key elements of self-care and services
for all childbearing women, including the approximately 15 percent of pregnancies
that develop complications and require medical care.
To achieve healthy pregnancy outcome, USAID advances essential,
evidence-based technical elements in maternal and newborn programs that are
feasible in low resource environments: family planning, birth preparation through
antenatal care and household practices, safe delivery, postpartum and newborn
care, and treatment of complications (maternal
mortality and neonatal death).
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