Traditional Birth Attendants learn about misoprostol.
Daniela Rodrigues, MPH Candidate
Daniela, a Bixby and Venture Strategies Innovations intern, provided 10 weeks of support to in-country program management to ensure that operations research were implemented as planned. Visits were conducted to health facilities and communities along the four districts were the project happens. Focus groups were held with health providers, traditional birth attends and community members. Daniela also provided support to VSI team in evaluating and creating a mid term report. The main goal of the project is to save mother’s lives by preventing PPH at home births with misoprostol tablets for women unable to reach a facility to deliver.