Prevent Nigerian Mothers from Dying in Childbirth Photo Gallery

Recording results

Each month there was careful recording of data regarding the outcomes of home births attended by the TBAs. This work is being done in a rural area outside Kigoma, western Tanzania.

Her daughter now gone

This is the sad lady in our quote, Margaum, who lost her own daughter to post-partum hemorrhage four years ago. She was one of the participating TBAs in our highly successful clinical demonstration study in Tanzania.

Training time

In this picture the TBAs are going through parts of the training for using misoprostol to stop post-partum hemorrhage after home births.

The kanga

The kanga is a rectangular garment of uniform dimensions but the colors are varied and always bright. They are purchased in pairs and worn as garments, head coverings, and baby carriers and used also for many other purposes. There is even a little paperback African book called “100 Ways to Use a Kanga”! For our study the TBAs and our technical advice team from Berkeley invented a systematic way to use these to estimate blood loss to know when hemorrhage was occurring.

Traditional midwives saving lives

We were thrilled to be working with these strong, resourceful women who have delivered many, many babies on mats on the floors of their villages’ homes for years. They explained that they were relieved to have, at last, a technology that could make a difference when a woman started to bleed too much. In the past, there was very little they could do about it and death was common.

Just born!

This young woman was the first mother in our study in Tanzania whose post-partum hemorrhage was stopped by the misoprostol administered by a TBA.

Misoprostol training attendees-Lagos, Nigeria

In February 2007, Venture Strategies hosted two widely attended one-day trainings for local health professionals on the active management of third stage labor and misoprostol administration. Additional trainings are scheduled for Abuja and Port Harcourt.

Misoprostol Training Certificate of Completion rec

One of 78 participants receives her certificate of completion for attending a training on the active management of third stage labor and misoprostol administration held in Port Harcourt, May 2007.

Nurses train diligently in Edo State

Nurses learn about an old drug's new use as an effective means to control blood loss after childbirth for the mothers they assist in delivery. This training in Edo State in June, 2008, is part of a focused effort to get lower level providers trained on misoprostol's use for postpartum hemorrhage and available closer to the rural communities that would benefit most by the life-saving tablets.