Click on a country: USAID's efforts in maternal and child survival focus on 25 priority countries that account for more than 66% of global maternal and child deaths.

Afghanistan

Provided 3,478 women with Sayana-Press, a novel injectable that can be easily self-administered or administered by community health workers and pharmacists every three months under the skin to avoid unintended pregnancies

Bangladesh

Piloted a new approach to reach the 50 percent of women who do not deliver in health facilities with community-level postpartum and post-abortion family planning care through utilizing frontline health workers and paid peer volunteers to deliver key messages

Burma

Supported maternal, neonatal, and child health training for clinicians and a new quality improvement model at one hospital in Rakhine State, which led to a 55 percent increase in infection prevention and 25 percent reduction in complications around labor and delivery in just two years

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Supported communities in nine provinces to revitalize nearly 2,300 sites for integrated community case management of childhood illness (iCCM) and retrained 170 community health workers on updated national protocols to deliver lifesaving iCCM services to hard-to-reach children

Ethiopia

Trained 631 nurses and midwives on respectful maternity care, increasing the number of facilities providing women-friendly health support

Ghana

Facilitated cross-facility collaborations between health workers to share experiences and skills, describe challenges to providing care, and identify solutions. These efforts contributed to a 33 percent reduction in institutional maternal mortality, 41 percent increase in family planning service utilization, and 28 percent reduction in stillbirths among participating districts in just a year and a half

Haiti

Developed a strategic plan for improving human resources for health in Haiti, including increasing country ownership through a plan for transitioning health workforce salary support from international organizations to the Government of Haiti, and as a result, 100 community health workers’ salaries were included in the domestic health budget for the first time this past year

India

Partnered with the private sector to train more than 85,000 new nurses to improve their employment prospects and reduce health worker shortages

Indonesia

Partnered with local private sector companies to develop maternal and newborn health corners within nation-wide convenience store chains that provide women with free counseling and check-ups with midwives

Kenya

Contracted more than 200 health workers across 11 of Kenya's 47 counties to provide maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition counseling and care in facilities that were not functioning due to lack of skilled staff, and county governments are now working to transition at least 20 percent of these health workers to government payroll in the next year

Liberia

Updated the national pre-service curriculum for nurses and midwives, in collaboration with the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery, to include training on the Essential Care for Every Baby and the Helping Babies Survive protocols

Madagascar

Trained 9,226 health volunteers across 34 districts on community plague surveillance and preparedness, including measures to support prevention, rapid detection and treatment for new cases, and comprehensive response to potential outbreaks

Mali

Coached more than 1,800 front line health providers, including nurses, midwives, and medical doctors, across 824 facilities on the provision of quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, voluntary family planning, and nutrition care

Malawi

Provided more than 1,100 nurses, clinicians, and other service providers from 869 health facilities and village clinics with training, mentorship, and supportive supervision to implement integrated community case management, a community-level approach to treat malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia in children under five

Mozambique

Supported health facilities to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and child health care through updating performance standards and providing training on quality improvement, resulting in 95 percent of supported health facilities improving their performance by at least 50 percent in the past year

Nepal

Trained 11,632 frontline health workers, including nurses, midwives, and community health workers, to provide integrated nutrition services across 42 targeted districts

Nigeria

Helped establish a community-led emergency transport system which made emergency obstetric and newborn care available and accessible within two hours for 92 percent of households in Cross River State

Pakistan

Supported 47 females and 34 males in a Master of Public Health degree program at Pakistan’s primary public health educational institution to build domestic health expertise and leadership

Rwanda

Provided competency-based on-the-job training and clinical mentorship to more than 2,400 medical providers, including certifying 330 providers as mentors to provide continued support and training to other health care workers

Senegal

Expanded a professional peer training program for public sector health workers to reach 75 private sector health providers across five major cities to improve the quality of care offered across all types of health facilities

South Sudan

Provided voluntary family planning care to more than 6,000 women through community outreach and health facilities in nine locations, which resulted in more than 1,200 family planning users taking up a wide range of contraceptives, including long-acting, short-acting, and fertility awareness methods

Tanzania

Supported quality improvement efforts in seven nursing and midwifery schools, which led to an 80 percent average improvement among graduates on midwifery competencies such as newborn resuscitation

Uganda

Provided capacity building training to 389 midwives across 143 private health facilities on basic emergency obstetric and newborn care, elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS, and voluntary family planning, which led to 70 percent of the facilities scoring higher than 70 percent on the self-regulatory quality improvement system

Yemen

Zambia

Through a public-private partnership with a local bank that built a maternity waiting shelter, supported training for healthcare providers and community volunteers on skilled deliveries, increasing access to health care services for pregnant women in remote, hard-to-reach areas