Published in Health and Technology Journal on 16 February 2023, the authors provide a narrative review about the use and role of telemedicine in maternal fetal medicine (MFM).
Among the studies selected, the article "Cross-cultural adaptation of the Zero mothers die (ZMD App) in Brazil: contributing to digital  health with the approach on care centred for e-pregnant woman" . by Silva AB, de Assumpção AMB, de Andrade Filha IG, Regadas CT, de Castro MC, Silva CRA, et al. in Rev Bras Saúde Materno Infant. 2019;19:751–62, is cited 3 times [45]:

"Regarding remote initiatives in fetal medicine, studies that described telemedicine implementation usually included mobile phone applications and web services as basic technologies for remote prenatal care"

" The majority of the studies described an improvement in information access to pregnant women"
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"Some benefits observed also included the possibility to interact online with physicians and to create conferences among health professionals".

With a new MOU signed recently, Zero Mothers Die pursues its partnership with Fiocruz Foundation and Dr Angelica Baptista Silva for the next five years in Brazil!
See her presentation by 72 Dragons Health

Both Press Packs are now available in English and French to support advocacy and communication with our partners and media.

We are grateful to our local partners who provided photos and stories of ZMD App in their local communities!

On 19 January 2023, Zero Mothers Die is part of the programme of an entire day of thé international conference dedicated to Telemedicine at the University of Talca in Chile.
Zero Mothers Die mobile App is available in Spanish and provides free weekly maternal health information during the pregnancy and after during the first year of life of the baby and mother.

An adapted version for Peru is available.
Register here: cttn.utalca@gmail.com

72 Dragons Health is a branch of a global production company: 72 Dragons, which is solely focused on health and wellness. 72 Dragons Health is a global community available to health practitioners all over the world with services tailored to the language, culture, and particular needs of the client, with offices in New York, Hong Kong, China, Honduras, and India.
Dr Pietro Aparicio and Rahul Dhakan offer 3 interviews to Zero Mothers Die’s partners in Brazil, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Dr. Angelica Silva is a public health researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and also a partner
at Zero Mother's die. Watch her speak exclusively with us about why it is the need of the hour to
create a solid public health infrastructure and the various initiatives her organisation(s) have
taken to create one.
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Dr. Inaki Algeria is the Medical Coordinator at the Gambo Hospital in Ethiopia, founder of Algeria Sin Fronteras and partner with Zero Mother's Die, Dr. Inaki Algeria has worked extensively to ensure that the poorest of the poor get the required medical attention.

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Chinomso Ibe is the founder of Traffina Foundation,for Community Health (TFCH) . Watch her speak exclusively about the mission and vision of her foundation.

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The theme of this conference was Polio and after Polio.  Introduced by WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jennifer Jones, RI President 2022-2023, October 21 was dedicated to providing updates on the global polio eradication campaign. The interventions described the current state of the world situation, with recent resurgences in unexpected countries, Israel, USA. Public health and vaccination measures were taken immediately, and wastewater analysis monitoring keeps you informed in real time.
This nevertheless shows that it is not over and that we must continue vaccination campaigns in the world to eradicate this virus which is, it must not be forgotten, deadly! Many survivors testify to their lives with multiple disabilities and daily pain.
The consensus is clear for the WHO and the RI: we must continue and raise funds to go until eradication in 2026.

The following day of October 22 is devoted to the transition to be organized after Polio.
Two options emerge:

1. Extend Polio vaccination to a more global immunization process by including other vaccines, malaria, Ebola, yellow fever, measles, HPV, cholera. Ten countries concentrate the greatest needs, including Nigeria, Nigeria, India, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Philippines. The COVID pandemic has left more than 25 million children without vaccinations for two years! This is a backlog that needs to be caught up as soon as possible.

2. Link polio with maternal and child health. 47% of mothers have no follow-up of their pregnancy in the world. Mothers having their babies vaccinated against Polio would also be informed about their pregnancy, nutrition, breastfeeding, hygiene, education, access to water...

Both options have strong and convincing arguments. Meetings must continue in 2022-2023 with the various partners involved.

The afternoon allows the presentation of more than 30 maternal and child health projects in Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe.
I presented Zero Mothers Die, supported by Rotary Club Saint Raphaël since 2019, and this year by three European Rotary Clubs Lodi (Italy), City & Shoreditch (London UK) and Leipzig (Germany) for Gambo hospital in Ethiopia.

At the closing of the conference by Jennifer Jones, she repeated that Polio is not over! Communication campaigns, local and international actions, new partners, convince more everywhere, all has to be continued, and learn form Polio for maternal and child health in the future.

Our partner Dr Angelica Baptista is presenting Zero Mothers Die at the following conference in Brazil on the 30th of September!

We are also pleased to share a video featuring Dr. Baptista on the Spotlight for Health series produced by 72 Dragons, you may watch it using the credentials below.

username: drangelica
password: Angelica4145

On Wednesday, July 20, we were proud to join the 8th annual #BumpDay as an official partner! Held annually the third Wednesday in July, the goal of #BumpDay is to raise awareness about the need for equitable care for every mom, everywhere, and to urge elected representatives to take action to support safe pregnancies and healthy babies.

​The renewal of the partnership with Fiocruz Foundation is approved for the next five years.

Together, Zero Mothers Die mobile App in Portuguese Brazil will pursue its expansion in Rio de Janeiro and other places in Brazil where women have little access to maternal health  information.

A scientific article has been published on the use of ZMD App in the Brazilian Journal of Mother and Child Health describing the cross-cultural adaptation of the Zero Mothers Die App for the Brazilian context : 

​In the next five years, it is expected to expand the reach of ZMD App in Portuguese to other Portuguese speaking countries.

Contact us if you are interested in finding out more or to localize the Zero Mothers Die for your community!

We are delighted to have partnered with Traffina Foundation for Community Health, led by Chinomso Ibe, to release the Zero Mothers Die App translated and localized in Pidgin language for communities in Nigeria and throughout Africa! To celebrate this, please find below a special guest post by Chinomso Ibe. 

​Pidgin language is a simplified way of communication among different  groups that do not have a language in common in Nigeria etc.
Nigeria as country has more than 200 million population and has 525 different local languages . Pidgin is one means of communication that brings the poor/rich educated and uneducated together, it brings every tribe and religion in Nigeria as one because everyone understands. I would say pidgin has a way of creating an atmosphere of unity.

Pidgin language is also used in different parts of West African countries and also unites most Africans together to communicate easily and faster despite native  language barrier.

Most people who did not have access to Education are mostly left behind to communicate with others, because most information are not put in Pidgin . Majority who depends on pidgin language  would demand that pidgin should always be considered when passing out day to day information or newsletters in other to be fully carried along in their day to day lives.
Most families in rural communities or hard to reach areas in Nigeria, depends on pidgin to be able to communicate with health professionals just to be able to talk about their health conditions and also to be able to understand instructions from health care workers.

Zero Mothers Die App latest addition / translation to Pidgin is a huge development and a big win for Nigerian communities and Africans at large. The joy regarding this latest development knows no bound .
Pregnancy and childbirth remain a continuous events in the lives of women and their families, lack of communication and understanding between health workers and women of child bearing age contributes to the challenges that points towards the high maternal and child mortality and morbidity rate in Nigeria / Africa.

Zero Mothers Die has broken the barriers that limits poor understanding to issues affecting women during pregnancy and childbirth. Most times women go to Ante-Natal and would not understand the teachings and would not be able to ask questions because they are ashamed to be classified uneducated, they end up going home more confused than they came. In situations like this, women starts going from house to house asking other women about their past pregnancies, trying to compare that with their situation and forgetting that each pregnancy is different. They carry their pregnancy with the information of what another woman told them, and this points to the beginning of calamity like getting involved in harmful cultural practices like using cow dung to dry new born umbilical cords, rejection of colostrum, drinking placenta water to initiate weight loss after childbirth etc.

But then, here comes the good news for our women. Women can read or listen to any information at any stage of their pregnancy and post-partum period without falling a victim of false information by neighbors.

Our women are so excited to have good understanding on how their child develops in the womb, signs of labor, preparation for childbirth, importance of breast feeding, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AID, care of the newborn, family planning and many more. Our Health workers too are happy to be fully involved into eHealth using ZMD App. 

This is a breakthrough for Maternal and child health In Nigeria/Africa.

Most important this will improve male involvement in Maternal Health, as we are struggling to have husbands /partners join their wives to Ante-natal, the pidgin information will help them to know more about pregnancy /childbirth, thereby getting more involved and supportive. 
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Traffina Foundation for community health’s  goal is the ensure that we get to all hard to reach communities in Nigeria and other African countries with ZMD new  Pidgin translation.

​After the presentation of the 22 April 2021 to the Rotary Clubs of the District 1730, Zero Mothers Die has been presented to the contacts clubs of the Rotary Club Saint Raphael, the Rotary Clubs of Lodi (Italy) and City & Shoreditch (London UK), on 8 December 2021.

​The participants in the three cities renewed their interest in Zero Mothers Die and wish to pursue the dialogue in 2022.