UNICEF new Learning HUB Kenya In Eastern and Southern Africa, mortality rates for mothers and newborns are among the highest in the world. To address this, competent and compassionate healthcare providers are essential.
Center of Excellence Tanzania A recent UN Report estimates that globally 4.5 million mothers and babies die every year. Tanzania bears 2% of this burden which amounts to 94,000 lives — mostly from preventable or treatable causes, if adequate care was available. One way to address this problem is to develop competent, confident, and skilled health personnel.
1st International Expert Meeting for Safer Births Liveborn research Hosted at the Laerdal headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, by Laerdal’s Strategic Research team, the 1st International Expert Meeting for Safer Births and Liveborn research gathered more than 40 international experts to address global challenges related to maternal and newborn mortality and discuss opportunities for collaboration, product development, and new research.
Highlights from Laerdal at ICM 2023 More than 2400 midwives and maternal and newborn health leaders from around the world gathered at the recent International Confederation of Midwives Congress in Bali, Indonesia. The theme of the congress was “Together Again – From Evidence to Reality.”
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