Improving tools, technologies, and treatments. To address the
primary risk factors for maternal and neonatal deaths, we work
to adapt current preventive and curative tools, technologies,
and treatments as well as develop new ones that are more
effective and affordable and will be more readily accepted by
families and frontline health workers in rural and community
clinics. These include managing postpartum hemorrhage with drugs
such as oxytocin and misoprostol and preventing and treating
newborn infections using simplified antibiotic treatment
regimens and cleaning of the umbilical cord. Improving health
practices. A health extension worker makes a home visit in Mojo,
a town in Central Ethiopia. We work to identify and reduce
barriers to adoption of effective interventions, disseminate
information about maternal and neonatal health, conduct large-
scale educational campaigns, mobilize local networks to improve
household and community practices and social norms, and reduce
financial barriers to obtaining care.