Baby Delivery Kits

Safe Motherhood Alliance has an innovative low-cost, single-use baby delivery kit which contains all the essential tools to ensure safe and sterile conditions at the time of childbirth delivery. The kit includes items like cotton wool, bleach, cord clamps, surgical gloves and these are distributed by the traditional birth attendants to the mothers at clinics and communities. The baby delivery kit is designed for use by trained Traditional Birth Attendants, health facilities in low-resource settings or in an emergency. They can be used by pregnant woman who gives birth unassisted in the home and live in low-income communities and rural areas. The target group of users are mainly underemployed women who are usually the traditional birth attendants found in the communities and who serve as advocates of safe birth practices. These women act as distribution agents thereby economically empowering themselves. The alliance partners with health facilities in low-resource settings as well as provides training and education to healthcare workers, traditional birth attendants and midwives, to assure proper adoption and implementation of the baby delivery kits in the country.

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