Asia Regional Meeting on
Interventions for Impact in Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care Draft Agenda Dates:
4–6 May 2012 (Opening Ceremony and Reception on 3 May)
Location:
Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ruposhi Bangla Hotel, Dhaka)
Organizers:
Organized by the Government of Bangladesh, USAID’s flagship Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationsupported Oxytocin Initiative, with support from Women Deliver and VSI and in collaboration with FIGO and ICM.
Description:
This meeting will bring together maternal/newborn health leaders, experienced clinicians and program managers to support accelerated implementation and expansion of maternal and newborn health programs in countries in Asia and the Middle East. The meeting will focus on postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E) and other aspects of maternal and newborn health. The first day will include an overview of global and regional progress to date in the reduction of maternal mortality and an update on new global guidelines for PPH. It will engage participants in a technical discussion on PPH prevention and treatment, including a review of issues related to quality and availability of uterotonics and maternal health supplies. The second and third days will allow time to deliberate on management of pre-eclampsia and review PE/E program implementation experience, as well as interventions for newborns. The entire afternoon of the second day will be devoted to skill building sessions and opportunities to explore more deeply some technical issues related to service delivery and training. True to the global perspective, the meeting will emphasize PPH, PE/E and newborn initiatives from the platform of essential obstetric and newborn care and discuss it with respect to the broader maternal and newborn health context in general, exploring themes of innovation, scale-up and measurement.
Meeting Objectives:
To present and discuss global scientific and technical information on prevention, early detection and management of PPH and PE/E, and special care for newborns
To review/discuss programmatic experiences and progress in the implementation of newborn care and PPH prevention/management programs in Asia/the Middle East
To review and consider an appropriate programmatic platform for the scale-up of PPH reduction and newborn care programs and the initiation or expansion of PE/E reduction programs that can be implemented at multiple levels of the health system
To develop knowledge and greater understanding of selected interventions in maternal and newborn health
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DRAFT
9 February 2012