Innovating to Save More Lives in International Maternal

To achieve urgently needed reductions in morbidity and mortality among women and families in developing nations, we require evidence based interventions to reach coverage, quality and impact at scale. Where health care systems are fragile, facility based services marginalize 50% of the population especially those most in need.

One strategy is to take care to families rather than wait for them in facilities. We describe innovative technology and process solutions that hold the promise for universal coverage. Tools such as low cost simulators for frontline health workers to rapidly acquire and maintain skills to save lives, Solutions to make it easier for providers to do the right thing such as interactive , talking job aids, and point of care diagnostics, and processes to enhance quality of care and clinical governance. We describe how technologies can be introduced and scaled to achieve transformational improvements in health care for the most marginalized.