Three new awards from Catalytic Opportunity Fund

In August, four recipients from African countries received awards from The Catalytic Opportunity Fund for Introduction and Scale-Up of New and Lesser-Used Postpartum Hemorrhage Medicines (NLUM-PPH COF). This month, three more organizations have been granted awards to scale up the use of heat-stable carbetocin and tranexamic acid for the prevention and treatment of PPH, respectively. Grantees will train master trainers in the use of both medicines and conduct facility-based training for health care workers. Busoga Health Forum will train in 11 districts of the Busoga sub-region in Uganda; the Midwives Association of Kenya will oversee professional development for health care workers in three Kenyan counties; and the National Midwives Association of Uganda will work in humanitarian/refugee-focused areas in four northern Ugandan districts. The COF is managed by RHSC and the Clinton Health Access Initiative and funded by MSD for Mothers* and the UK's Reproductive Health Supplies Programme.

*MSD for Mothers is an initiative of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA.

Category: Maternal Health Supplies Caucus