Through a unique partnership between Jhpiego, a world leader in competency-based clinical learning and quality improvement, and Laerdal Global Health, the Helping Mothers Survive Secretariat was established in 2014 to create a paradigm shift for building capacity of all health workers who care for women and newborns on the day of birth and beyond. The Helping Mothers Survive (HMS) suite of training programs provides health workers with skills in prevention, detection and management of the leading causes of maternal deaths including bleeding after birth and pre-eclampsia & eclampsia. Upcoming modules include training in normal labor & birth, and complications of labor & birth.
Since 2014, 65 countries have implemented HMS programs and a documented 86,000 providers have been trained.
Helping Mothers Survive
Using MamaNatalie for teaching. Helping Mothers Survive's first training module, Bleeding After Birth Complete, addresses detection, management and prevention of postpartum hemmorhage, the leading cause of maternal death globally.
BOGO Initiative
For each birthing simulator purchased through Laerdal Medical for use in high-income countries, a second one is being donated to support the Helping Mothers Survive initiative in low-income countries.
Helping Mothers Survive
Helping Mothers Survive Pre-eclampsia & Eclampsia (PE & E) is an evidence-based educational program to teach birth attendants the lifesaving skills on how to manage and control pre-eclampsia & eclampsia, the second leading cause of maternal death.
Study in Uganda
In 2013, Jhpiego and AAP received a grant to couple HMS Bleeding After Birth with Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) and evaluate the impact of implementing these modules in 125 facilities in Uganda. This evaluation demonstrated the effectiveness of the BAB/HBB intervention in improving the provider performance and reducing both perinatal mortality and postpartum hemorrhage.
These findings have been submitted for publication.
Helping Mothers Survive has been reviewed and endorsed by the global professional organizations for midwives (ICM), gynecologists and obstetricians (FIGO), pediatricians (AAP), nurses (ICM), and UNFPA.
