Adequate management of obstetric complications has increased by more than 70 percentage points during the past five years in Belize.

Marta Leticia Cartagena is 31 years old and lives in Tambla Lempira, a municipality located in one of the poorest regions of Honduras, very closet o the border with El Salvador. Marta has been working for four years as a promoter at the health center of this locality.

Development of these eHealth Innovations was made possible with funding from the Korean Knowledge Partnership and Fund for Technology and Innovation.

Every day, Paulina tours Belize to interview those responsible for the health teams. She compiles and analyzes hundreds of data dispersed in different sources and formats. How long does it take for a pregnant woman to get care when she arrives due to an urgency?; how many children of a region have anemia?; how many complications take place after delivery in a specific hospital?; how many women continue to deliver at home in a village?...

Fuente: Caribbean News Now! SAN PEDRO, Belize -- On Thursday, Belize joined the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015) -- a project that aims to reduce maternal and infant mortality among the poor, benefiting more than 30,000 young women and children.

Fuente: UNICEF/Cornell University This e-learning course, free of charge, is organized by UNICEF and the Cornell University. It has 12 units, a final exam and a course evaluation survey. Participants will receive a personalized certificate of completion worth 12 continuing professional education units (CPEUs).

Fuente: The Lancet

Of the 555 million preschool children in developing countries, 32% are stunted and 20% are underweight. Child underweight or stunting causes about 20% of all mortality of children younger than 5 years of age and leads to long-term cognitive deficits, poorer performance in school and fewer years of completed schooling, and lower adult economic productivity…

Fuente: Government of Canada The Goverment of Canada launches the fourth round of this unique program that enables innovators in low- and lower-middle-income countries and Canada to develop their bold idea with big impact to improve global health conditions.

Fuente: BMJ Open Accessible Medical Research A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-income and middle income settings: a mixed methods study.

Fuente: Impatient Optimists blog, BMGF

Yesterday, on Impatient Optimists, Jennifer James of Mom Bloggers for Social Good profiled three projects in sub-Saharan Africa to save the lives of women and newborns. She wrote, “If we can replicate these programs, bring them to other countries or regions, we can save more lives.” We agree completely. But how does this happen?