Project study on maternal waiting homes now published!

by | Oct 15, 2022 | Research | 0 comments

We are pleased to share with you the article titled, Understanding maternity waiting home uptake and scale-up within low-income and middle-income countries: a programme theory from a realist review and synthesis, which has now been published in BMJ Global Health <http://gh.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmjgh-2022-009605>. 

The result of more than 2 years of work by a team of international researchers, the study explores the adoption of maternity waiting homes in low and middle income countries where many women and families experience delays in reaching obstetric care. It captures an impressive breadth of insight from women, families, healthcare workers, policy makers and researchers experienced in MWH use or service provision.

The study was part of the project’s research program. The next step in our work in this area is a realist evaluation of the implementation of the MWHs that the project built, in comparison to other existing homes, in Inhambane province.

Congratulations to authors Nadege Sandrine Uwamahoro, Daphne McRae, Elaine Zibrowski, Ify Victor-Uadiale, Brynne Gilmore, Nicole Bergen, and Nazeem Muhajarine!

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Thank you for your interest in the Mozambique-Canada Maternal Health Project. This project came to an end on June 30, 2024. You may continue to the site to see our final update and find out what we did, but please keep in mind that it is an archived site and will no longer be updated.

We now have a new project**: Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young Women in Inhambane**. We will be activating its website soon.

The new project builds on the old one, but with some changes to adapt to new realities. We will continue to seek improved, sexual, reproductive and maternal health and rights for women, now focusing more on adolescent girls and younger women, within the context of model communities of care, taking into consideration their families and their communities. We will continue to partner with community health communities (now 30 compared to 20) within selected districts in Inhambane (now 6 rather than 5). We will also continue to partner with the provincial health directorate (DPSI) to improve infrastructural and human resources in the health system. And we will continue to carry out helpful research and disseminate information.

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