MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; UGANDA
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
Through empowering traditional birth attendants, Koi Koi Stories increases community access to the lifesaving misoprostol drug to reduce post partum haemorrhage, the leading cause of maternal mortality among the rural underserved women of Moroto District, Uganda.
Moroto District has a very high maternal mortality rate at 420 deaths per 100,000 live births. Due to long distances to health facilities, most women die from postpartum hemorrhage in the communities as they try to deliver under the care of unskilled traditional birth attendants. Our model seeks to train traditional birth attendants on the appropriate use of misoprostol (an approved low cost uterotonic drug), and create linkages for them with the health facilities to allow them access the drug supplies and appropriately and timely administer these drugs at community level to save the lives of mothers and their newborns.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Reach 1,680 women during the pilot phase
Raise $10,000 of funding during the pilot phase
Train 5,000 Traditional Birth Attendants by the end of year 2
Reach 50,000 women by the end of year 2
FOUNDING TEAM
Bryan Innocent Tumusiime - Team Lead
Mary Ajwang - Project Coordinator
Precious Mutoru Kerunga - M&E Officer
Dinnah Odonya - Field Trainer
Abigail Antwi - Founding Member