Partnerships and Programs
Together with our global partners we develop and implement innovative solutions for low-resource settings.
Laerdal Global Health
Helping Mothers and Babies Survive
Helping Save Mothers and Babies
Every day, babies and mothers die from preventable birth-related complications. Most of them in low-resource settings.
7300
Newborns die every day
830
Mothers die every day giving birth
99%
Of these deaths happen in low-resource settings
We believe we can help
Laerdal Global Health is a not-for-profit company dedicated to helping save lives of mothers and newborns. Since 2010, we work in close collaboration with partners to develop high impact, low cost solutions aimed at helping save lives. Our solutions, implemented by our partners throughout the world, ensure that health workers are better trained, equipped and supported to provide quality care and save mothers and babies at birth.
Our goal is to help save 400,000 more lives
every year by 2020
We will reach our goal by
- Helping train and equip more than 1 million birth attendants
- Introducing disruptive innovative solutions that are durable, simple, culturally adaptable, and affordable
- Catalyzing innovative partnerships and alliances
Every life is a story
Two strong heartbeats
Sijabi Afumani’s baby was born premature. Sajabi was worried, would her baby survive? Luckily, the midwives at Lindi Hopital, Tanzania could assist. They knew how to care for small babies through the training done by Jhpeigo and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The midwives helped Saijabi to breastfeed and to keep her baby warm through skin-to-skin. Saijabs baby grew strong and is now healthy and happy child.
Taiyaba was not breathing
Ritka Begum gave birth in Sadipur, Bangladesh. Baby Taiyaba was not breathing on delivery, but luckily, Sakhina, her Skilled Birth Attendant, had attended a Helping Babies Breathe course only two weeks earlier. Thanks to this training and available resuscitation equipment, Taiyaba survived and is thriving.
Happy Birthday Agness
Baby Agness was not breathing when she was born at Chongwe district hospital in Zambia. But the Mumba family could celebrate a Happy Birthday thanks to Midwife Hamalala having been trained in Helping Babies Breathe, as part of the 50,000 Happy Birthdays project led by the International Confederation of Midwives.
Danieli
Danieli was born at the Haydom hospital. He was born with meconium and did not breathe. The young nurse used what she had learnt in the Helping Babies Breathe course. She dried and stimulated the baby and used the penguin suction to remove the meconium. But he still did not breathe. She quickly cut the cord and moved him to the resuscitation table where she used the bag-mask and resuscitation monitor. After some minutes Danieli was breathing by himself.
Nurse Suchitra knew what to do
After a long delivery, Baby Dhananjay was born not breathing. Luckily, nurse Suchitra had been trained in Helping Babies Breathe and saved him. Both the mother and the baby got what everyone deserves. A happy birthday.
Regina and Baby Gloria
Mama Regina had parts of her placenta still left in the uterus and started bleeding heavily after delivery. Luckily her midwife had been trained with MamaNatalie to stop the bleeding and remove the remains, so that Regina could live to see her daughter Gloria grow up.
Juliet saved Joyce
Just after Joyce gave birth to her baby girl, she started to bleed profusely. The midwife, Juliet, realized that Joyce needed help right away or she might die from blood loss. Juliet had been trained in the Helping Mothers Survive - Bleeding After Birth program so she was able to identify the problem quickly and stop the bleeding. Joyce was very thankful - she considered naming her baby after the midwife who saved her.
