Webinars

Join RHSC's Maternal Health Supplies Caucus and Menstrual Health Supplies Workstream in partnership with R4D and Lucky Iron Life for a webinar that focuses on the intersection of anemia and reproductive health. In this webinar, we...

Despite national commitments to free or subsidized maternal health commodities, many women in low- and middle-income countries face significant barriers to access these lifesaving medicines.

This webinar, hosted by the RHSC...

Maternal mortality and morbidity from postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) could be significantly reduced through the effective use of quality-assured, preventive uterotonic drugs during the...

Countries are not on track to achieve Sustainable Development Goals for reducing preventable maternal, newborn, and under-five mortality by 2030. Results for Development (R4D), with support from the Gates Foundation and local...

This webinar will discuss interrelated strategies for improving health commodity access, with DRC as an example, as well as share results from activities implemented in DRC as a model to improve commodity access in other...

The Concept Foundation and the MHS Caucus presented an open-access Special Collection in the International Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (IJMA) titled: Prevention and treatment of postpartum hemorrhage in...

The newest version of LEAP – the Landscape and Projection of Reproductive Health Supply Needs – was published at the end of May 2024.

Deep dive into the maternal health supplies data from the LEAP 2024. In this session, we will be...

This webinar discussed the new tools, medicines and supplies for PE/E as well as the quality of antihypertensives. Unitaid shared updates on its pre-eclampsia strategy and recent landscaping on gaps and opportunities to better...

The Maternal Health Supplies Caucus meeting focused on the WHO's Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) Roadmap. The PPH Roadmap, launched in 2023, aims to accelerate progress by 2030. Key updates include 15 priority research questions, 15...

This webinar covered the experiences in Zambia implementing the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) for the management of postpartum hemorrhage.

This webinar will discuss the results of the RHSC’s Compass Initiative landscape analysis, Manufacturing landscape assessment for maternal health supplies in sub-Saharan Africa. The panelists will offer valuable insights about...

The Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI) project funded by UNITAID developed a business case for tranexamic acid, misoprostol, and heat-stable carbetocin. This...

During this webinar, UNFPA and Avenir Health presented preliminary findings on the role that the UNFPA Match Fund has played in supporting domestic resource mobilization for maternal health medicines, as well as its potential role...

Please join the Maternal Health Supplies Caucus of the RHSC and PATH on this webinar that introduces the MNCHN Asset Tracker, an initiative to assess the status of scale up for key MNCHN “assets” (i.e., commodities and approaches...

This webinar presented evidence generated on the use of innovative medicines for the prevention and treatment of PPH. The presenters are Concept Foundation, Smiles for Mothers Nigeria and Kenya. UNFPA presented its work in...

Second webinar of a series with the aim of identifying country challenges, potential solutions, and best practices in training, communication, and supportive supervision in support appropriate use of uterotonics (current and new)....

R4D presented on a project they have developed that focuses on co-creating a list of context-specific, prioritized solutions to address market challenges that limit access to MNCH medicines at the global level and in each of the...

Webinar organized by the Maternal Health Supplies Caucus of the RHSC. In this webinar we present the updated RMNCH forecasting supplement to assist program managers, service providers, and technical experts conduct quantification...

Engineer and Physicist Kitty Liao presented the latest innovation on SMART coolers for the transportation of heat sensitive medical products.

The Preemie Test, invented by a Brazilian obstetrician and an astrophysicist, uses the measurement of skin reflection, obtained through a handheld optoelectronic device, to estimate a newborn's gestational age and assess lung...

The first 1,000 Days is a concept aiming to give children the best possible start in life, regardless of where they are born. This starts already during the early pregnancy. As part of these efforts Simavi and TNO together created...

Smiles for Mothers will provide an overview of its work using human-centered design to develop innovations to reduce PPH by 20% across three Nigerian states. During the webinar, the presenters from McKinsey and Company (the design...

As WHO has incorporated Tranexamic Acid into the PPH treatment guidelines, this webinar will review the science and practice of using TXA for the treatment of PPH. We will have presenters from the London School of Hygiene and...

This webinar presents the readiness assessment of primary and secondary health facilities to diagnose, monitor and treat women with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and other HDP in India, Uganda and Mexico. It will also identify gaps...

The Maternal Health Supplies Caucus in partnership with PATH, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply project’s Maternal and Child...

Through the support of the RHSC Innovation Fund/Maternal Health Supplies Caucus, Concept Foundation undertook a study in Ethiopia to identify how we might accelerate registration and availability of these essential, quality...

As most MNCH commodities are procured with government funds, an understanding of the financial flows for MNCH commodities is critical to ensuring adequate and timely procurement of MNCH commodities. The USAID-funded Systems for...

This webinar presented how to translate scientific knowledge and evidence into real life implementation and illustrated with examples how different intervention need to adapt to local contexts in order to achieve the desired...

“Oxytocin doesn’t prevent PPH.  Quality oxytocin does.”

This is a comment made recently by Dr Patrick Lukulay of United States Pharmacopeial Convention while presenting concerning data on the widespread, poor quality of oxytocin...

The UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC or Commission) Supply Chain Technical Resource Team developed a quantification supplement covering 13 underused reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health commodities...

The WHO prequalification of medicines was established in 2001 to ensure quality, safety and efficacy of medicines and health products procured by the UN Agencies, and other international procurement agencies. To date, more than...

Webinar Introduction, Hans Vemer, Concept Foundation

Investing in the Production of High-Quality MH Commodities, Alice Miller, Financing for Development

Investing in the Production of High-Quality MH Commodities, Beth Bafford,...

RHSC Maternal Health Caucus and Market Development Approaches Working Group Webinar

Deepti Tanuku
Program Director, USAID-Accelovate