MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGE; cameroon
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
For Mom And Baby (FOMAB) Foundation is on a mission to reduce maternal and neonatal deaths due to preventable causes in Cameroon with a particular focus on rural, fragile and internally displaced communities.
FOMAB Foundation will use a network of community health workers to identify pregnant women, initiate basic antenatal care, and connect them to the closest health facilities where they will get misoprotol-containing birth kits at a subsidised price for skilled delivery. Bringing basic antenatal care closer to women in the communities to ease follow-up and ensure prompt referral is what sets us apart. They plan to pilot this model in the South West Region of Cameroon which is a conflict-affected area with hundreds of internally displaced expectant women who lack access to pregnancy care.
The organization was founded in 2021 by Ashu Martha Egbe who is currently the President of the Foundation. Ngwashi Christabel and Nkwain Carlson joined the organisation in 2022 and together will oversee the operations of this project.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Directly reach 400 pregnant women within three months of launch
Use 15 trained community health workers, distribute 360 misoprostol-containing delivery kits in three months
Fundraise an additional $30,000 from new donors within three months
FOUNDING TEAM
Ashu Martha Egbe - Founder