Maternal and Fetal Health MLW

Our Maternal and Fetal Research Group is working with MOH's RHD to prioritise key Maternal and Neonatal Health needs that the directorate and it's partners should focus on to reduce maternal and Neonatal mortality rates, by improving the quality of care rendered. @DavidLissauer

Today is the first Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Theme meeting and we will be having presentations from @NanelindaNm @kondwanikawaza on kangaroo mother care in Malawi. @KUHeS_mw @KUHeS_Nursing

Our new paper about facilitators and barriers of implementing stillbirth and neonatal death audit in Malawi- Findings can be widely applied to other programmes or projects implemented in hospitals of Malawi. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

@DavidLissauer presenting 'Developing a culture of quality in the Malawi health care system' at the 2nd National Quality of Health Care Conference in Malawi which is being held at BICC organized by Quality Management Directorate

Happy faces from the Maternal and Fetal Health Group celebrating @MlwTrust 25 years anniversary. @DavidLissauer, Luis Gadama and Regina Kachitsa. #Research_driving_health

Prof. David Lissauer, Maternal Health Group Lead media interview with Times T.V. earlier today as @MlwTrust celebrates 25 years anniversary. @DavidLissauer

Kicking of the 25 year celebrations with a walkathon! Great to be with all the teams from @Maternal_MLW @MlwTrust @KUHeS_mw #25_years #researchdrivinghealth

DIPLOMATIC work package 3 presentation by Dr. Luis Gadama happening today at Linde Lodge @MlwTrust @KUHeS_mw @DIPLOMATIC20

The Maternal and Fetal Health Group is happy to share the vision and mission statements to all valued stakeholders. One of our vision statements is to ensure every woman has a safe and positive experience of pregnancy and birth.@MlwTrust

Dr Ana Pilar Betran highlighting @WHO strategic priorities in maternal health. Very exciting that maternal sepsis and the APT-sepsis trial are a key part of these plans @livuniHLS @Maternal_MLW @MlwTrust

Hearing from our insightful panel: Professor Fernando Althabe, Professor David Lissauer, Dr Linda Nyondo-Mipando, and Dr Enny Paixao discussing C-section associated complications. #GLOWBrum2022 🕯 @WHOCCGWH

Thanks @DavidLissauer for virtually taking us with you to @GLOW_Conference . Great presentation on important work in #Malawi by the @Maternal_MLW team. @jennymriches @cijchapuma1 @lauMunths @DunlopCatherine @MlwTrust

The Maternal and Fetal Health group (APT Sepsis Trial central team) and Ugandan Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI APT sepsis trial central team) after concluding a 3 days workshop at MLW Blantyre Office. @MlwTrust

Maternal and fetal health group meet outside their new offices. Great to catch-up as a team! @MlwTrust

@Maternal_MLW is very proud of @MtisungeGondwe who has successfully submitted her PhD thesis titled 'Evaluating processes and outcomes of stillbirth and neonatal death audit as a quality improvement tool in Southern Malawi'. Congratulations! 👏 @MlwTrust

Tune in to Times Radio every saturdays from 5-6pm,Malawian time, to understand more about the TENDAI study, an intervention for Malawian pregnant women with HIV to improve depression, viral suppression and enhancement of partners in HIV self testing. @MlwTrust @AnnastarsiaC

Accurate dating of pregnancy using ultrasound Scanning in Antenatal Care will aid midwives in Malawi deliver appropriate management of pregnant mothers on subsequent ANC visits and delivery. @MlwTrust @KUHeS_mw @MEIRU_MALAWI

Last week @jennyriches from the Maternal and Fetal Health Group (MLW), presented a proposal for the production of national technical report on Maternal death in Malawi using data from the MatSurv platform at National Committee on Confidential Inquiry into Maternal deaths meeting

This week the Maternal and Fetal Health Group, Diplomatic Team, is conducting a workshop using a gallery walk and some quality improvement tools to explore on the normalization of USS in routine ANC services with District and National stakeholders @MlwTrust @KUHeS_mw

Rolled out participatory workshops that aim at exploring ways of normalising USS in routine ANC services. This works follows from our @DIPLOMATIC20 project that trained midwives in ultra sound scanning to estimate gestational age.@MEIRU_MALAWI @Maternal_MLW @MlwTrust @KUHeS_mw