Saving Mothers' Lives in Rural Kenya
SummaryA low-cost, off-patent drug stops postpartum hemorrhage. Thousands of women's lives can be saved by making it available to traditional midwives through local businesses in developing countries.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Each year, over twice as many women die in childbirth as people who died in the 2004 tsunami. 99% of these deaths are in developing countries and hemorrhage is the most common cause worldwide. Bleeding can be controlled in a clinic but we have shown that traditional midwives can use inexpensive misoprostol tablets to save lives in a woman’s home: where most births take place and most maternal deaths occur in the developing world--well beyond reach of hospitals and government health services.
Activities
In 2004, we co-sponsored a successful policy meeting with the Kenyan government, at their request. Now we are preparing to work with manufacturers and to help with the regulatory process to make misoprostol available to save women’s lived.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $576
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $576 . The original project funding goal was $15,000.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project is uniquely scalable. Kenya been unable to lower maternal death to meet the U.N.'s 2015 goal of 75% reduction. With this drug, traditional midwives get their first effective technology and see the first major reduction in mortality.
Project Message
When we started training for the Tanzania project, word spread. Pregnant women who knew their lives were in danger traveled 70km when they heard that we had a drug to stop bleeding after childbirth.
- Dr. Ndola Prata, Advisor, Tanzania study with traditional midwives
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Martha Campbell
President and founder
Venture Strategies
1700 Shattuck Avenue #208
Berkeley, CA 91324
United States
+1 510 524 3060
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Venture Strategies for Health and Development
Venture Strategies Innovations 2401 E Katella Ave., Suite 400
Anaheim,
California
92806
United States
714-221-2040
http://www.venturestrategies.org
Venture Strategies for Health and Development's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Kenya
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 2, 2005
