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Safer Births

Our goal: A world where all births are safe

A Global Research Program for Saving Lives at Birth

Established in 2012 at Haydom Lutheran Hospital in Tanzania, the Safer Births Consortium has become the world's most extensive research and development program for birth asphyxia.

The collaboration has resulted in new training and clinical innovations, in addition to more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.

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Increasing Impact by Scaling Up

An Update on Our Progress

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Through the Safer Births project, we obtained new essential knowledge about newborns and developed more efficient training methods.

When implemented well as a Safer Births Bundle, the project proved that the innovations have the potential to create impact and improve perinatal survival on a global scale.

The Safer Births Bundle of Care update from May 2023 summarizes the status of the scale-up and learnings from the project in Tanzania so far.

Download the SBBC May 2023 Update

Safer Births Innovations

As a result of the Safer Births research, four innovative tools were made to enable health workers to make time-critical lifesaving decisions on the spot. Safer Births Innovations is a collection of both training and clinical tools to ultimately help prevent and treat the leading causes of newborn and maternal deaths.

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Fetal Heart Rate Monitor

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Bag Mask Ventilator, with/without PEEP

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Newborn Heart Rate Meter

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Newborn Ventilation Trainer

Safer Births Bundle of Care

The Safer Births Bundle of Care consists of the original Safer Births innovations, plus selected clinical innovations, training innovations, and a set of solutions around continuous quality improvement and sustainability.

The solutions in the Safer Births Bundle of Care are provided by LGH together with key partners and have shown promising results in Tanzania.

 

  • Clinical Innovations
  • Training Innovations
  • Continuous QI
  • Sustainability

Clinical Innovations

Clinical Innovations

Fast and reliable fetal and newborn heart rate monitoring, efficient bag-mask ventilation and improved maternal care. 

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Penguin suction device

Training Innovations

Training Innovations

In-service simulation training for helping mothers and newborns survive. 

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Continuous QI

Continuous Quality Improvement

Fast and reliable fetal and newborn heart rate monitoring, efficient bag-mask ventilation and improved maternal care.

SimBegin: A facilitator course designed for implementing simulation as a methodology for training and quality improvement.

LIFT: The Learning Improvement Facilitation Tool integrates several systems digitally, supporting training into one coherent application built for low-resource settings.

Creating a culture of trust and quality impovement. Click to watch video.

Sustainability

Sustainability

Supported by strong MoH ownership, regular mentorship, supportive supervision and local facilitators trained in simulation methodology.

The Safer Births Bundle of Care Scale-up

In 2020 Safer Births project received funding from Global Financing Facility (a part of the World Bank) to scale up Safer Births Bundle of Care to 30 hospitals divided over 5 regions in Tanzania, covering 500,000 births/year. Watch the scale-up video.

Based on the positive preliminary results from the project, the Safer Births Bundle of Care was  awarded an additional 8.5 million USD from the Global Financing Facility to further scale up in Tanzania.

We aim to guide how to inspire other countries to do the same. To save more lives. Together. 

Read more about the scale-up

Reducing Maternal Deaths

The Safer Births Bundle of Care program trains healthcare professionals to efficiently deal with PPH and is already resulting in up to a 50% decrease in maternal deaths.