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Training traditional birth attendants on the use of misoprostol and a blood measurement tool to prevent postpartum haemorrhage: lessons learnt from Bangladesh

Bell S, Passano P, Bohl D, Islam A, Prata N

Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition, 2014

A consensus emerged in the late 1990s among leaders in global maternal health that traditional birth attendants (TBAs) should no longer be trained in delivery skills and should instead be trained as promoters of facility-based care. Many TBAs continue to be trained in places where home deliveries are the norm and the potential impacts of [...]

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Population and climate change: who will the grand convergence leave behind?

Campbell M, Casterline J, Castillo F, Graves A, Hall T, May J, Perlman D, Potts M, Speidel J, Walsh J, Wehner M, Zulu E

Lancet, 2014

For many developing countries, investments in health have proved a great success. The Lancet Commission “Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation” and the 2014 Gates annual letter envision the possibility of a “grand convergence” by which more countries will have a child mortality rate as low as 15 per 1000 livebirths in 20 [...]

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An Integrated Approach to Livelihoods and Family Planning

Chessin-Yudin C, Prata N

2016

Climate change will disproportionately affect the poor in the future, nowhere more so than in the fragile ecological zone known as the Sahel. The Sahel has been plagued with droughts, decreasing crop yields, and increasing environmental degradation (World Bank, 2013). This paper will empirically demonstrate that an integrated intervention, coupling access to family planning (FP) [...]

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Getting family planning and population back on track

Potts M

Global Health: Science and Practice, 2014

After a generation of partial neglect, renewed attention is being paid to population and voluntary family planning. Realistic access to family planning is a prerequisite for women's autonomy. For the individual, family, society, and our fragile planet, family planning has great power.

Published in Global Health: Science and Practice 2014; 2(2), 145-51.

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Assessing political priority for reproductive health in Ethiopia

Prata N, Summer A

Reproductive Health Matters, 2014

Ethiopia is among the top six countries contributing to the highest numbers of maternal deaths globally. The Ethiopian total fertility rate was estimated at 4.8 in 2011, and the use of contraceptives by married women was 29%. Lack of knowledge, cultural stigma surrounding abortion, and barriers to access of services contribute to persistently high rates [...]

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Is attendant at delivery associated with the use of interventions to prevent postpartum hemorrhage at home births? The case of Bangladesh

Prata N, Bell S, Holston M, Quaiyum M

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2014

Background: Hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality in Bangladesh, the majority of which is due to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), blood loss of 500 mL or more. Many deaths due to PPH occur at home where approximately 77% of births take place. This paper aims to determine whether the attendant at home delivery (i.e. [...]

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Modeling maternal mortality in Bangladesh: the role of misoprostol in postpartum hemorrhage prevention

Prata N, Bell S, Quaiyum M

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2014

Background: Bangladesh is one of the few countries that may actually achieve the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in time, despite skilled birth attendance remaining low. The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential role misoprostol can play in the decline of maternal deaths attributed to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in Bangladesh.

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Cost of providing injectable contraceptives through a community-based social marketing program in Tigray, Ethiopia

Prata N, Downing J, Bell S, Weidert K, Godefy H, Gessessew A

2016

Objective
To provide a cost analysis of an injectable contraceptive program combining community-based distribution and social marketing in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Methods
We conducted a cost analysis, modeling the costs and programmatic outcomes of the program’s initial implementation in 3 districts of Tigray, Ethiopia. Costs were estimated from a review of program expense records, invoices, and [...]

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Women’s Empowerment and Fertility: A Review of the Literature

Upadhyay U, Gipson J, Withers M, Lewis S, Ciaraldi E, Fraser A, Huchko M, Prata N

Social Science & Medicine, 2014

Women's empowerment has become a focal point for development efforts worldwide and there is a need for an updated, critical assessment of the existing evidence on women's empowerment and fertility. We conducted a literature review on studies examining the relationships between women's empowerment and several fertility-related topics. Among the 60 studies identified for this review, [...]

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Postpartum family planning: current evidence on successful interventions

Prata N, Blazer C

Open Access Journal of Contraception, 2016

Abstract: We reviewed existing evidence of the efficacy of postpartum family planning interventions targeting women in the 12 months postpartum period in low- and middle-income countries. We searched for studies from January 1, 2004 to September 19, 2015, using the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations to assess evidence quality. Our search resulted in 26 [...]

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