Safe motherhood and newborn health: FIGO projects and progress

摘要

As Co-Chair of FIGO's Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health (SMNH) Committee and Project Coordinator we are fortunate to work with an outstanding number of individuals from across the world who help in the management of the SMNH project (Table 1).In 2005 and early 2006, FIGO secured funding for 6 country projects to be implemented over a 5-year period. Further discussions resulted in FIGO investing 1 million US dollars to accept 3 additional countries to develop and implement projects to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. One further country received partial funding from the USAID/Intrahealth Capacity Project.The 10 countries are Haiti, Kenya, Kosovo, Moldova, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda, Ukraine, and Uruguay; and the aims of the projects are to fill identified gaps in the provision of maternal and newborn health in each country. A few projects began in 2006 whereas the majority began in 2007.