Media Mentions: January 2023

January 05, 2023

In Sagnarigu in the Northern Region, just as in most parts of Ghana, women who deliver at facilities within the municipality receive little to no education, clinical assessment or peer support tailored to their health needs even though the postpartum period is a high-risk timeframe for maternal deaths and complications. Routine health checks and education offered at health facilities within the municipality are mostly targeted at babies, though new mothers could be at risk of losing their lives due to postpartum health issues.

The situation requires an urgent need for an integrated postpartum care delivery model that is comprehensive and meets the clinical care, education, and support needs of mothers. It is on the back of this need that Focused Post-Partum Care (Focused-PPC), a Randomized Control Trial, was birthed in July 2021 to test and evaluate an innovative postpartum care, education, and support model in the Sagnarigu municipality.

A collaboration between Savana Signatures and the University of Notre Dame, the project is funded in part, with support from the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and in part by Grant Number ULI TR002529 from the National Institutes of Health. It is also supported with funding from the Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame.