University of Alberta

$5,517,107.00 CAD

≈ 72 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
—
Recipient country
Ethiopia
Fiscal year
2012-2013
Agreement period
January 28, 2013 – April 30, 2018
Project status
Closed
Reference
CA-3-S065669001

Published purpose

This initiative aims to improve the skills of 200 primary health workers and 4,500 midwives to deliver healthy babies, benefiting more than 50,000 women and 100,000 children in a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. This project also strengthens the skills of health specialists and officers to deal with emergency birthing situations, and contributes to building the institutional capacity of the two local partners, the Federal Ministry of Health and St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College. This project seeks to reduce the incidence of illness and death in mothers during childbirth and in the period just before and just after, by enhancing the teaching and clinical skills of key frontline workers in the Ethiopian health system involved in maternal and newborn health.

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This project trains health workers and midwives in Ethiopia to improve maternal and newborn care, aiming to reduce deaths during childbirth and benefit over 50,000 women and 100,000 children.

Category: Health Primarily funds activity outside Canada

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