The Cesarean Safety Checklist was designed to strengthen teamwork, evidence-based practices, and respectful care for women and newborns during cesarean birth The Challenge Cesarean birth is the most common surgery worldwide, accounting for more than 21% of all births. In India, the percentage is even higher: 27% of births are by cesarean, with some regions… Continue reading The Cesarean Safety Checklist
Miranda Loutet, PhD MSc, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Vulnerable Infant Portfolio on the BetterBirth program at Ariadne Labs. She is leading a study describing the feeding practices of very low birthweight and/or very preterm infants in India embedded within the Low Birthweight and Preterm Infant Feeding Trial and Supportive Care Package (LIFT-UP) study.… Continue reading Miranda Loutet
A randomized controlled trial exploring whether fortifying human milk improves growth and health outcomes for small vulnerable newborns in India.
A series of studies aimed to improve feeding practices and growth outcomes for small vulnerable newborns in India, Malawi, and Tanzania.
A step-by-step, system-change guide with a full set of linked, adaptable materials to help facilities adopt the FSP+.
A co-designed, freely available package that integrates lactation, mother’s own milk (MOM) feeding, KMC, and safe hygiene support into routine facility care for small vulnerable newborns.
Ilana Dzuba, MHS is the Assistant Director of the Vulnerable Infant Portfolio on the BetterBirth team at Ariadne Labs, which aims to strengthen growth and health outcomes for low birthweight and preterm infants in resource-limited settings. An experienced researcher and program leader, she co-leads the Low Birthweight and Preterm Infant Feeding Trial and Supportive Care… Continue reading Ilana Dzuba
The BetterBirth Team and their partners at KEMRI Wellcome Trust and the University of Oxford published the results from their mixed methods study at three county referral hospitals in Kenya to explore the impact of birth complications on mothers’ and families’ postpartum experiences and wellbeing.
Ariadne Labs, as part of USAID’s MOMENTUM suite, conducted a landscape analysis of current global tools and professional guidelines regarding safe cesarean delivery as well as an ecosystem map identifying what elements of the care pathway are addressed by the existing tools and guidelines. The goal of the landscape analysis was to provide an overview of existing resources to identify gaps and help inform the future development of a Safe Cesarean Checklist.
Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal death during childbirth. Every year, it affects 14 million women around the world. About 70,000 of those women die as a result, and many more require urgent surgery to control the bleeding. Global guidelines have offered insight into how to effectively manage postpartum hemorrhage in a clinical… Continue reading Combating Postpartum Hemorrhage with Effective Implementation