MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; SOUTH SUDAN
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Misoprostol.
Learn more about the Maternal Health Challenge and how the distribution of Misoprostol, a $3 drug that can prevent maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, could save thousands of lives.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Better Women Health (BWH) is distributing Misoprostol to reduce the high prevalence of PPH mortality, among millions of women giving birth at home, driven by remote settings of war torn South Sudan.
BWH’s model is based on “a low-cost-effective proven lifesaving solution. Together with the trained Community Health workers (CHWs), TBAs and Health workers; BWH registers pregnant women from 32 weeks of gestation to enable access to misoprostol at health facility delivery or home birth with an upskilled birth attendant. With support from BWH and Health workers, the CHWs & TBAs visit mothers at home and discuss birth preparedness plan, informing mothers of the benefits of taking misoprostol immediately after delivery to prevent excessive bleeding. BWH model is a dire demand to reduce preventable deaths resulting from PPH and saving more lives and easy to administer even by the mothers themselves.
BWH was started ten months ago (April 2021) by Judith Draleru Maturu of BHECO and Kiden Rose Buli a friend who questioned the quick solution to stop women dying from PPH. Seeing it through the tears in her eyes, made it especially personal and women for women struggle. Rose now serves as the BWH project coordinator.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Directly reach 200 women within three months
Distribute 800 Misoprostol pills in three months
Fundraise an additional $75,000 from new donors within three months
FOUNDING TEAM
Judith Draleru Maturu - Project Director
Rose Kiden Buli - Project Coordinator