ZERO MOTHERS DIE
A Global Initiative to Save the Lives of Pregnant Women & their Newborns Using Mobile Technologies
The world faces unacceptably high maternal and child mortality with 287,000 women and more than 6 million children under the age of five dying every year from preventable or treatable causes.
Zero Mothers Die is a global project envisioned by an innovative public-private partnership to save the lives of pregnant women, new mothers and their babies by employing a comprehensive approach to improving maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) through the systematic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and mobile health, or mHealth, to deliver the right healthcare information to the right person at the right time.
COMPONENTS
OBJECTIVES
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Reducing Maternal & Child Mortality
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Through increased access by pregnant women to appropriate healthcare information, via mobile voice and text messages in local languages and dialects.
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Accelerating Mobile Phone Ownership & Use |
To increase access to healthcare, empower women with information, and reduce the mobile phone gender gap. This includes facilitating connections with healthcare workers through allocations of free airtime restricted to calling assigned local healthcare facilities and workers. |
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Education & Capacity-Building of Community Health Workers
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Using tablets and smartphones preloaded with tools to support their work as well as up-to-date, tailored training materials in local dialects to improve maternal and child health in their communities. This includes the dissemination of new technologies adapted for low-resource settings, including a ground-breaking CD4 diagnostic.
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COUNTRY IMPLEMENTATIONS: Ghana, Mali, Nigeria
PARTNERS
Zero Mothers Die is led by the Zero Mothers Die Consortium composed of the Advanced Development for Africa Foundation, Millennia2025 Women and Innovation Foundation and the UniversalDoctor Project, in partnership with UNAIDS, The People’s Vision, Airtel and ZMQ, a Technology for Development social enterprise. The first implementation phase of Zero Mothers Die will be in Ghana in partnership with the Ghana Ministries of Health and Communications, Office of the First Lady, UNAIDS Ghana and other key local partners.
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JOIN THE ZERO MOTHERS DIE PARTNERSHIP
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