Tanzania team represent LGH at the country’s first International Primary Health Care Conference Joining over 1000 people, the LGH Tanzania Team attended the conference, showcasing solutions and taking part in two important abstract presentations.
Partner Q&A: Dr Benjamin Kamala, Haydom Lutheran Hospital Principle Investigator for the Safer Births program in Tanzania, and MD at Haydom Lutheran Hospital shares insights about his work, collaborating with LGH and his reflections on improving maternal and newborn health in Tanzania.
Nigerian Health Commissioner praises Safer Births program as strides made towards adoption in Nigeria From presentations to key decision makers, to praise from a Nigerian Health Commissioner, strides are being made towards adoption of Safer Births Bundle of Care in Nigeria.
UNICEF Learning Hubs to enhance skills of healthcare providers in Eastern and Southern Africa Referral hospitals in Eastern and Southern Africa are being transformed into Learning Hubs to enhance the skills of healthcare personnel in the region, improving the care mothers and newborns receive.
Lifesaving Safer Births program scales to over 150 hospitals in Tanzania, reaching thousands of healthcare personnel The implementation of the second phase of the Safer Birth Bundle of Care (SBBC) program in Tanzania has begun, reaching 152 hospitals across 5 regions with the aim of reducing maternal and neonatal mortality.
New partnership aims to improve access to safe surgery for mothers and newborns Laerdal Global Health has partnered with the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) with the aim of improving the quality-of-care mothers and newborns receive on the day of birth when having to undergo surgery.
Laerdal Global Health CEO presents at Norwegian-African Business Association high-level forum As part of the business forum Laerdal Global Health’s CEO, Karoline Myklebust Linde, was invited to present about the organization with a focus on the work in Tanazania.
Working Together: New Distribution Partnership in Pakistan Laerdal Global Health solutions are now more accessible in Pakistan thanks to a new agreement signed with local distributor, Medinostic Healthcare.
Podcast: Dr Singhal’s Neonatal Journey of a Lifetime Listen to Episode 16 of the One Million Lives podcast and learn more about Dr Nalini Singhal, renowned neonatologist and co-developer of the Helping Babies Survive program.
Simulation Saves Lives with Dr Hege Ersdal A conversation with Dr. Hege Langli Ersdal, MD, PhD, Stavanger University Hospital
Buy One, Gift One Impact Story Rwanda As part of a UNFPA led program that is helping to incorporate simulation training into Rwanda’s nursing and midwifery education system, eleven institutions in the country have received MamaBirthie and MamaNatalie Buy One, Gift One simulators.
Buy One, Gift One Impact Story Nepal For every birthing simulator bought through Laerdal Medical for use in a high-income country, another one is donated to a high impact partner project in a low-income country. So far, more than 7000 simulators have been donated in 40 countries.
Supporting Ethiopia’s National Sick and Small Newborn Care Plan Updates on Ethiopia's plans to improve outcomes for mothers and babies, including how the Saving Little Lives implementation fits into this.
Simulation-Based Mentorship Project in Rural Nepal A collaboration with One Heart Worldwide supported by simulators from the Buy One, Gift One program has reached nearly 800 midwives, strengthening newborn and maternal health care in rural Nepal.
Safer Births team presents to Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health at full-day stakeholder meeting Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health invited the Safer Births Consortium to share the results from the Safer Births Bundle of Care implementation in Tanzania, and to explore the possibility of bringing the program to Nigeria.
Reinforcing partnerships and learning together at Ministry of Health Led Conference in Tanzania Key takeaways and highlights from the second Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Scientific Conference 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Government officials and stakeholders celebrate success and scale up of Safer Births Bundle of Care, Tanzania Phase 1 of the Safer Births Bundle of Care, Tanzania program has concluded, and a formal agreement has been signed for a significant scale up of the program, beginning in 2024.
Working towards national expansion of simulation based training in Rwanda SimBegin trainings have taken place in Rwanda as part of the nationwide adoption of a simulation based approach to nursing and midwifery education.
Midwifery Educator Bootcamps India Hands-on bootcamps upskill midwifery educators in three states across India, with plans to scale in 2024.
Save Story: Baby Tseganesh Sanato's Story Small actions helping to keep premature babies alive in Ethiopia, including Baby Tseganesh Senato.
New Distribution Partnership in Ethiopia Laerdal Global Health and Laerdal Medical solutions are now more accessible in Ethiopia thanks to a new agreement signed with local distributor, Starchain Medical.
Highlights from FIGO 2023 FIGO World Congress in Paris hosted WHO’s launch of a critical roadmap to tackle the leading cause of maternal death: postpartum hemorrhage (PPH).
Highlights from the IMNHC 2023 4.5 million women and babies die every year during pregnancy, childbirth, or the first weeks after birth – mostly from preventable causes. The key message from the conference was: We need to accelerate progress – now.
Zanzibar Ministry of Health Launches new Nurse-Midwifery Simulation Lab More than 800,000 women and girls in Zanzibar lack access to high-quality health care resources that help them promote their health and prevent disease.
Remote training in South Sudan with USAID MOMENTUM Laerdal Global Health and the American Academy of Pediatrics recently trained midwives from 15 healthcare facilities in South Sudan in Essential Newborn Care.
GIZ funded develoPPP programme supports simulation project in Nepal Nepal’s Safe Motherhood and Newborn Health Road Map 2030 aims to ensure a healthy life for, and the well-being of, all mothers and newborns.
Strengthening SRHR in pre-service medical, nursing and midwifery education in Nepal High-quality simulation-based education helps increase the confidence of students and providers offering these services.
Shaping the future of midwifery education Strengthening midwifery education is essential for midwives to deliver high-quality care for women, newborns, and their families.
Tore Lærdal Pioneer in simulation Tore Lærdal was awarded the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) Pioneer in Simulation Award at IMSH 2023.
Saving lives of small and sick newborns Every year, 20 million babies are born prematurely or with low birthweight. One million of these newborns die.
A solution to save the smallest lives Continuous skin-to-skin contact between the mother (or caregiver) and the baby, improves survival and health outcomes among low birthweight infants.
Announcing Medical Device Regulation (MDR) approval for resuscitators and masks Laerdal Global Health announced that several of their widely used silicone resuscitators and masks have achieved MDR approval.
Collaboration in action: WHO Academy visits Laerdal Finding great potential for impact in partnership with WHO Academy.
Safer Births Bundle of Care to be scaled up to over 100 hospitals in Tanzania with $ 13m in funding from the World Bank In 2020 the Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) was rated with the highest score among 320 proposals submitted in response to the GFF Innovation-to-Scale call.
Annual video 2022 When the Sustainable Development Goals were signed, few of us imagined that we would face the largest global public health challenge in more than a century.
Launching Saving Little Lives Funded by the World Bank, the Saving Little Lives program will be implemented in 290 hospitals in Ethiopia accounting for 1.28 million births, every year.
Going national in Nepal - Scaling up Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive Nepal's Ministry of Health will implement the Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive programs, nationally.
Medela and Laerdal Global Health join forces to fight maternal & infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa A new partnership between Laerdal Global Health and Medela Cares has been established to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
LIFT wins grant from Innovation Norway Laerdal Global Health has been selected as 1 of 6 recipients of a grant from Innovation Norway to develop a digital solution that will help developing countries solve a health or education challenge.
Laerdal enters partnership with Gavi Laerdal and GAVI, the global vaccine alliance, have signed a letter of intent to form a 3-year partnership.
50,000 Happy Birthdays report The interactive report presents the activities and impact of the the 50,000 Happy Birthdays project in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Global Financing Facility and partners announce winners of innovation awards Five awardees announced for the Innovation-to-Scale initiative to scale up proven innovations for the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality around and just after birth
DOGA Award 2020 Laerdal received both the Design for Excellence Award AND the Honorary Award for Laerdal Global Health’s NeoBeat. The DOGA Honorary Award is the highest level of recognition awarded to particularly impressive projects that have received the DOGA Award.
Introducing Essential Care for Labour & Birth A new training program to improve the quality of care for women and newborns developed by Jhpiego
Women Deliver 2019 We will be at Women Deliver, the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of women and girls in the 21st century.
Call for proposals to scale up innovations to save women and newborns’ lives Innovation-to-Scale: Call for Proposals for accelerated, high impact, and sustainable scale-up of innovations for saving mothers and newborns at birth
When you Buy One, Gift One, you are helping save lives. We want to thank all the customers of Laerdal Medical that have contributed to the Buy One Gift One campaign.
Lancet Global Health study on rates A multi-country study that aimed to generate high quality data about population-based rates, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Laerdal's partnership with the Global Financing Facility A partnership that will take innovations to scale, for maternal and newborn health
Survive & Thrive Report Published Major Achievements of the Survive & Thrive Alliance: A 5-Year Report Guiding the Way Forward