Project to Use Community Health Workers to Reduce Maternal Deaths

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

17,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 16, 2017

Primary Completion Date

May 31, 2019

Study Completion Date

May 31, 2019

Conditions
Maternal MortalityAccess to Health Care
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Village meeting and travel vouchers

"The interventions are:~1. Village meetings by community health workers to educate women and their families about safe birthing.~2. Vouchers for free transport by motorcycle taxi drivers to access health facility at delivery."

DEVICE

Birth kit with misoprostol

Provision of birth kit with clean delivery supplies (soap, 2 pairs of gloves, 2 cord clamps, surgical blade, and 600 mcg misoprostol for the woman to take immediately after the delivery to prevent postpartum hemorrhage).

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Shirati District Hospital Research Office, Shirati, Rorya District

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

OTHER

collaborator

Shirati KMT Hospital

UNKNOWN

lead

Bruyère Health Research Institute.

OTHER