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MAITRI: Caregiver support for Essential newborn care at setup
Maitri is a behavior change ecosystem of advocacy & practice through mobile training and a kit that contains essentials for newborn care.
Group Care for Child Health
Our idea is a healthcare systems intervention that shifts routine pediatric, preventative care from an individual to a group setting.
Promoting Local Nutrition Solutions
Our idea is a nutrition campaign in Kampala and Central Uganda tackling increasing childhood stunting and wasting by helping mothers and caretakers through food demonstrations and health education to make a two legume—one cereal blend for their child
Integrating Micro-insurance for Families into Agricultural Cooperatives
Community-based health insurance services will be integrated into existing agricultural cooperatives to reduce financial barriers to health services. Training and education for cooperative members will be expanded to influence norms and practice
Malezi Bora (Proper Nurturing): Tailored Support Groups for Young Mothers
The Nairobi slums expose residents to serious health risks, leading to alarmingly high rates of malnutrition, illness and death among children. Jhpiego proposes to improve the health of children living in Nairobi’s slums through Young Mothers Clubs,
School-Based Mobile Clinics
We would like to expand our school-based mobile clinics to invite parents from the surrounding area to come to the school for health information lectures and breakout sessions on reproductive health, breastfeeding, nutrition, hygiene, immunizations,
Using Packaging for Education and Play
The idea is to rethink packaging as to function for: 1) providing information to parents (i.e. rotating labels to tell stories, nutritional tips, child development milestones sheets) 2) be assembled into toys that stimulate children cognitive dev
Preventing Illness Through Improved Flooring
A design and construction service provided to marginalized families, integrated with a campaign that educates communities on the link between housing and health. It tackles the problem of disease caused by dirt floors in homes where children und
Tracking Maternal Depression and Child Growth
This idea proposes to incorporate depression and developmental screenings into the already existing National Program on Immunization (NPI) in Nigeria. The specific objectives would be to recognize postpartum depression (PPD) among mothers attending i
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Enhanced Kangaroo Mother Care
[Updated 1/7] Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is a proven WHO-recommended practice that enables mothers to keep their premature babies warm through skin-to-skin contact. There are practical challenges to this wonderful practice being performed 24/7 leadin
