Policy, Advocacy and Communications

Community accountability and advocacy

August 31, 2010 17:45-19:15 Room - Theatre 2

Moderator

Abhijit Das, Centre for Health and Social Justice

Speakers

Abhay Shukla | Aparajita Gogoi | Jiban K. Behera | Narendra Gupta | Sunita Singh

Presentation

A. Shukla: Community monitoring of health services in Maharashtra: an evolving model of public health system accountability (Abstract)
A.Gogoi: Accountability around MDG5 through grassroots advocacy
A.Gogoi: Creating social accountability for safe motherhood (Abstract)
A.Gogoi: Creating social accountability for safe motherhood (Presentation)
A.Gogoi: Increasing access to skilled attendance at birth
A.Shukla: Community monitoring of health services in Maharashtra: an evolving model of public health system accountability (Presentation)
J.Behera: Impact of functional village level committees on maternal health and the delivery of antenatal and postnatal health care by auxiliary nurse midwives in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha (Abstract)
J.Behera: Impact of functional village level committees on maternal health and the delivery of antenatal and postnatal health care by auxiliary nurse midwives in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha (Presentation)
N.Gupta: Community based monitoring of primary health services (Abstract)
N.Gupta: Community based monitoring of primary health services (Presentation)
S.Singh: Empowering the poor for claiming their health rights (Abstract)
S.Singh: Empowering the poor for claiming their health rights (Presentation)

Videos

Aparajita Gogoi | Jiban K. Behera | Sunita Singh

Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

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

Plenary Session 3: Maternal health accountability: successes, failures, and new approaches September 1, 2010 13:00-14:30 Room - Stein Auditorium

Moderator

Lynn Freedman, Averting Maternal Death and Disability

Speakers

Aparajita Gogoi | Sigrun Mogedal | Helena Hofbauer | Nancy Northup

Presentation

H.Hofbauer: Aid effectiveness - national governments commitments to spending | A.Gogoi: Accountability around MDG5 through grassroots advocacy | N.Northrup: Accountability through a maternal health human rights approach

Videos

Plenary Session 3