Postpartum hemorrhage is a leading cause of maternal death, and bleeding simulators and educational materials provide crucial training and support to healthcare personnel managing obstetric emergencies.  
 
Now, recipients of an award from the Catalytic Opportunity Fund, managed jointly by RHSC and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), will receive birthing simulators and educational learning materials distributed through Laerdal Global Health’s (LGH) Buy One Gift One (BOGO) program. For every birthing simulator purchased in a high-income country, LGH distributes one to partner programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).  
 
The simulators and educational materials provide healthcare personnel with realistic hands-on training opportunities to prevent and manage bleeding after birth.   

The Catalytic Opportunity Fund for Introduction and Scale-up of New and Lesser-Used Postpartum Hemorrhage Medicines is funded by MSD for Mothersi and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).  
 
Through this collaboration, Laerdal Global Health and RHSC aim to enhance the training methodologies of fund recipients by providing birthing simulators and Jhpiego’s Helping Mothers Survive Bleeding after Birth Complete printed materials for PPH management training. Laerdal Global Health will distribute up to 750 MamaNatalie simulators and Bleeding After Birth Complete (BABC) training materials in English, French, and Spanish, to RHSC grantees of the Catalytic Opportunity Fund. To support LMIC partners in scaling up, BOGO units are being offered to countries that are funding through this COF.