Policy, Advocacy and Communications

Women's health and rights advocacy partnership in South Asia

September 1, 2010 17:45-19:15 Room - Willow

Moderator

Amulya Ratana Nanda, Population Foundation of India

Speakers

Jashodhara Dasgupta | Naureen Ilyas Butt | Samia Afrin | Sewa Singh | Vd. Smita Bajpai

Presentation

J.Dasgupta: Implementing a Human Rights Based Approach to Maternal Mortality Reduction Efforts (Abstract)
J.Dasgupta: Implementing a Human Rights Based Approach to Maternal Mortality Reduction Efforts (Presentation)
J.Dasgupta: Media advocacy on maternal health in Uttar Pradesh (Abstract)
J.Dasgupta: Quality of institutional maternity care in resource poor settings (Abstract)
N.Butt: Interactive theatre as an advocacy tool (Abstract)
N.Butt: Interactive theatre as an advocacy tool (Presentation)
S.Afrin: Health services monitoring: Naripokkho's Experience (Abstract)
S.Afrin: Health services monitoring: Naripokkho's Experience (Presentation)
S.Singh: Empowering women constituent assembly members on women's health and empowerment (Abstract)
V.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health (Abstract)
V.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health (Presentation)
Vd.Bajpai (substitute for Subhangi): Civil society partnership with public health system
Vd.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health

Videos

Jashodhara Dasgupta | Naureen Ilyas Butt | Samia Afrin | Sewa Singh | Vd. Smita Bajpai

Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

Poster Presentations: Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

Presentation

A.Abbakar: Use of prenatal care services in Kassala, eastern Sudan
A.Ahmed: Community involvement in improving maternal health in Bangladesh
A.Dongre: An approach to monitor and initiate community led actions for antenatal care in rural India
A.Mir: Can Misoprostol be used at home for the prevention of PPH in rural Pakistan?
B.Bhat: Impact of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) on promoting institutional deliveries in Jammu and Kashmir
B.Savy: Increase in facility births poses new challenges
C.Rokx: Health system strengthening for maternal health in Indonesia
E.Elhassan: Anemia and low birth weight in Medani Hospital, Sudan
F.Luzinda: Nutrition awareness programs for prenatal and postnatal health: experiences of women in Goma subcountry (Mukono district, Uganda)
F.Ndiaye (substitute for D. Trudeau): On the job training for improved family planning and maternal and child health services in Senegal: the mentoring approach
J.Bejarano: Road to maternal survival for indigenous Andean women
K.Thomas: Social marketing approach as an alternative extension delivery for nutrition intervention among women in Osun state, Nigeria
L.Freij: Training community educators to shift norms of marriage in Yemen
L.Tamang: Nurses' efforts in establishing an independent birthing centre in Nepal
M.Bhatta: Effectiveness of focused-interventions to improve maternal health in Nepal
P.Loomba: Identifying gaps in medical abortion dispensing behavior among pharmacies in India
P.Patel: Empowering traditional birth attendants (TBAs) as a link between community and health facilities
R.Ahuja: Shaping demand and practices to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition outcomes in northern India
S.Pandit: Ensuring health through insurance: lessons from working with slum communities in Nanded City, India
V.Manning: Lessons learnt in scaling up abortion services in the public sector
V.Shaahu: Quality of antenatal care in Ibarapa region of Oyo state, Nigeria
Vd.Bajpai (substitute for Subhangi): Civil society partnership with public health system
Vd.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health
Z. Rashid (substitute for A.Wajid): Which cadres of birth attendants are likely to be more effective in rural Pakistan?

Poster Presentations: Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

Presentation

A.Gogoi: Increasing access to skilled attendance at birth
A.Isah: Engagement of clerics improves fistula prevention and reintegration efforts in northern Nigeria
D.Panwar: Supporting frontline workers to improve home-visits: strengthening government systems in Uttar Pradesh, India
F.Jega: Actions to manage and prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in Nigeria
F.Khatun: Home deliveries and traditional birth attendants: findings from an operations research on chlorhexidine introduction in Bangladesh
G.Sankar: Manman an Bon Sante Timoun an Bon Sante (healthy mothers, healthy children project): pre and post earthquake in rural Haiti, 2004-2010
G.Verma: How to build a commercially viable model for delivery of public health products and services?
H.Alemu: Community based data for decision-making for improving maternal and neonatal health in rural Ethiopia
L.Palo: Nutrition secure India
L.Vanderveken: Community participation: increasing quality and use of child survival and reproductive health services
M.Haris: Effective community based support improves maternal health behaviors
M.Khan: Household costs of obtaining maternal and newborn care: Can poor households afford skilled care in rural Bangladesh?
M.Krishna: Cost analysis of interventions to stimulate community action for the improvement of maternal & newborn health in Uttar Pradesh (Sure Start) and implications for replication
M.Sibande: Community based safe motherhood in rural Malawi
M.Vasquez: Maternal health and vulnerability among indigenous women from northwestern Argentina
M.Vasquez: Mother to child transmission (MTCT) prevention strategy in low-income areas from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Md.Iqbal: Cause of adult female deaths in slums of Dhaka City: implications for maternal health service delivery
Md.Isalm: Community support system for improving maternal health
O.Omobowale: National health insurance scheme, MDG and maternal and child health in Oyo state, Nigeria
O.Omobowale: Sociocultural beliefs and sexual activity among postmenopausal women in an urban community in Iban, Nigeria
O.Taiwo: Mobile healthcare
S.Dutta: Microfinance as an untapped resource to improve the health of pregnant women and infants
S.Mulyanga: Right to care: engaging health workers and communities in ensuring women's right to safe pregnancy and childbirth
S.Pathak: Upgrading maternity and newborn care across Mumbai's Municipal Hospitals
S.Saha: Cost analysis study for a program to improve maternal and newborn health in three cities of Maharashtra
T.Joshi: Strengthening systems for scaling up village health and nutrition days in northern India
V.Kumari: Traditional remedies for induction of labor
Vd.Bajpai (substitute for Subhangi): Civil society partnership with public health system
Vd.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health