An audit committee that reviews deaths during childbirth has reduced the maternal mortality rate in hospitals in Mali and Senegal by 15%, and its founders have been awarded the €1 million EU Horizon Birth Day prize for a solution that saves the lives of mothers and their babies.
More than 800 women die every day from preventable complications in pregnancy or childbirth and 99% of these deaths occur in developing countries.
‘The day that you are born is the most dangerous day of your life,’ said Professor Marleen Temmerman, director of women’s health at Aga Khan University Medical College in Kenya. ‘We know what to do but we don’t implement enough.’
The former director of reproductive health and research at the World Health Organization was speaking at the awards ceremony of the Horizon Birth Day prize, an initiative funded by the EU, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MSD for Mothers to support marketable, scalable and innovative solutions for preventable deaths in childbirth.
The EU and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation each provided €1 million in prize money, while MSD for Mothers offered €500,000.
Source: Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine / European Commission / 14 February 2018
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