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Read MoreNurse midwife Beatrice’s days are spent in the busy maternity ward at Kewara, a Sub County Hospital in Murang'a County. She finds her job rewarding,helping bring new life into the world and supporting mothers during an often-vulnerable time.
Read MoreDigital technologies have proven powerful tools in the fight to improve maternal, newborn, and infant health outcomes globally, but particularly in low-resourced areas with weakened information systems or poorly integrated health infrastructures.
Read MoreA few days after settling back home with her newborn baby Pendo ‘she noticed her eyes were yellow…I didn’t know what was wrong with her.’ This prompted her to send a description of baby Pendo’s symptoms via PROMPTS 21884 sms shortcode and soon after she was promptly advised on what she needed to do to seek immediate medical professional help for her baby.
This week, we enrolled our 2 millionth mother to PROMPTS, our AI-enabled digital health service. The scale feels hard to comprehend. PROMPTS started out in three facilities in Nairobi - as a X. Now, mothers sign up to the service in 1,110+ public facilities across 20 Kenyan counties, and early operations in Ghana and Eswatini signal the start of a new global chapter.
In 2022, we rapidly grew our footprint across Kenya and into new territories, powered by innovations to our technology and data infrastructure and the increasing buy-in and support from our government partners. images Here are some of the images that spoke to us this year.
Read MoreEven with the right information and the willingness to try, breastfeeding still remains an issue for many mothers across Kenya, and beyond. When mothers report breastfeeding challenges to PROMPTS, its AI-based system kicks-in, prioritizing urgent cases - eg. ‘My baby hasn’t attached for over a week’ or ‘My baby is not gaining weight’ - for urgent follow-up and referral to a nearby facility. Early referral can help to identify cases of infection or failure to thrive early and intervene if needed.
Read MoreIt was getting dark outside when Faith Asayo first noticed the blood. At nine weeks, her first pregnancy had been relatively painless, but something about the dark red clots made her pause. Her husband has been working a long shift in town, and by the time he’d battled the traffic to get home, Faith was doubled up on the floor. When at 9pm blood began to seep through her skirt, he sent a message to PROMPTS; ‘There’s a lot of blood. What do we do?’
Read MoreAlice Muhonja sits in a small office adjoining the delivery room of Mutuini District Hospital, located off to the South West of Nairobi. The door is left ajar (‘So I can keep an eye on things’ she smiles) and the gurgle of an hour-old baby can be heard in the maternity ward beyond. The facility feels quiet and organized, an achievement given the growing volume of deliveries it handles. Under Alice’s leadership, new processes now streamline the ways things are done, from queue management, to the quality of care incoming mothers receive and when.
Read MoreJacaranda Health, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) announce a new partnership to reach the last mile of under immunized infants in Eswatini through Jacaranda’s digital health tool PROMPTS.
Read MoreMaureen, a nurse midwife in a facility in Kakamega County, has seen firsthand how better organized and better integrated health services means mothers not only receive high quality care, but also know when to seek it, where to go, and how to get there. Jacaranda Health and a coalition of Kenya-based partners are undertaking a Service Delivery Redesign project with an ambitious goal; to reorganize the county’s health services so that all deliveries take place in advanced facilities equipped to deal with complications.
Read MoreThe theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias, inciting the global community to raise awareness against gender bias and take action for equality. But what does this look like in practice? Here’s three things we’ve seen work to #BreakTheBias in maternal health to ensure all mothers and their families - regardless of age, location, or economic means - are able to experience childbirth safely and with dignity.
Read MoreIt’s fitting that in the final days of a rigorous year of testing, adapting, and refining our solutions, we arrive at a major milestone - reaching 1 million mums through our digital health tool PROMPTS. 1 million expectant and new mothers across Kenya now receive information and advice about pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period, and a lifeline to quality care when they need emergency support.
Read MoreThe vastly growing number of messages we’re able to send to mums each month is an encouraging benchmark of our current capacity and demand. However, our priority is that quantity does not replace quality, and mums continue to receive timely, clinically-accurate messages tailored to their needs. We do this by staying true to three principles - equity, relevance, and speed - as we test and adapt our messages.
Read MoreJacaranda’s centralized EmONC Mentorship training is week-long intensive course aimed at increasing and sustaining provider skills in basic and emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC), and empowering them to continue mentorship support at their respective facilities. The trainings feed into a wider randomized control trial determining the effectiveness of our package of complementary solutions on patient and provider outcomes.
Read MoreImmunization is one of the greatest global health success stories - a key to curbing rapid outbreak transmission, bolstering global health security, and lowering child morbidity and mortality. Yet against this backdrop of success a new, major data challenge emerges; namely how to identify under-immunized babies and infants when coverage is already high.
Read MoreSimple technology has the power to radically shift models of care for patients and providers. But for organizations, its use in the path to scale-up can’t be underestimated, helping improve the accuracy, efficiency, and speed of programs - using fewer financial and human resources.
Read MoreDigital technologies have the potential to transform models of care and bring powerful new tools to health providers. Last year, Jacaranda launched a simple blood tracker tool connecting providers needing blood to the closest facilities who could provide it. With 31 facilities now using the tool, we have been asked by providers to adapt it for a wider purpose: inventory management.
Read More’As we speak 80% of the deliveries in Murang’a county are now happening in health facilities because mothers have confidence in the health facilities and the providers.’ Catherine .W. Gachanja, Principal Nursing Officer and Head of Reproductive Services, Murang’a County.
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