FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
on Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
Abdi, Maryam Sheikh. “A religious oriented approach to addressing FGM/C among the Somali community of Wajir, Kenya,” FRONTIERS Report. Nairobi: Population Council. (updated May 2008) (PDF, 518 KB)

Abdi, Maryam Sheikh, Guyo Jaldesa, and Ian Askew. "Managing and preventing female genital cutting (FGM/C) among the Somali community in Kenya,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 167 KB)

Birungi, Harriet. "Adapting focused antenatal care: Lessons from three African countries," FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 11. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.7 MB)

"Malaria in pregnancy pilot projects nationally adopted in Kenya and Malawi," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 77. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Mwangi, Annie and Charlotte Warren. "Taking critical services to the home: Scaling-up home-based maternal and postnatal care, including family planning, through community midwifery in Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 779 KB)

Mwangi, Annie, Charlotte Warren, Nancy Koskei, and Holly Blanchard. "Strengthening postnatal care services including postpartum family planning in Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF)

2007
"South Africa: Improve facility management to increase nurse retention," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 63. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

2006
Birungi, Harriet, Philomena Nyarko, Margaret Armar-Klemesu, Daniel Arhinful, Sylvia Deganus, Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, and Gladys Brew. "Acceptability and feasibility of introducing the WHO focused antenatal care package in Ghana," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 460 KB)

Birungi, Harriet and W. Onyango-Ouma. "Acceptability and sustainability of the WHO focused antenatal care package in Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 557 KB)

"Ghana: Combine learning approaches to improve maternal care," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 57. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

Munguti, Nzoya, Moses Mokua, Rick Homan, and Harriet Birungi. "Cost analysis of reproductive heath services in PCEA Chogoria Hospital, Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 89 KB)

RamaRao, Saumya, John Townsend, and Ian Askew. "Correlates of inter-birth intervals: Implications of optimal birth spacing strategies in Mozambique,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 134 KB)

"South Africa: Antenatal couples counseling is feasible but challenging," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 58. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

2005
Chege, Jane. "Interventions linking gender relations and violence with reproductive health and HIV: Rationale, effectiveness and gaps," Agenda: Special Focus on Gender, Culture and Rights (special issue): 114–123. (PDF, 137 KB)

Chege, Jane N., Ian Askew, Nzwakie Mosery, Mbali Ndube-Nxumalo, Busi Kunene, Mags Beksinska, Janet Dalton, Ester Snyman, Wilem Sturm, and Preshny Moodley. "Feasibility of introducing a comprehensive package of antenatal care services in rural public clinics in South Africa,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 217 KB)

Mullick, Saiqa, Busi Kunene, and Monica Wanjiru. "Involving men in maternity care: health service delivery issues,” Agenda: Special Focus on Gender, Culture and Rights (special issue): 124–135. (PDF, 141 KB)

Osei, Ivy, Bertha Garshong, Gertrude Owusu Banahene, John Gyapong, Placide Tapsoba, Ian Askew, Clement Ahiadeke, Richard Killian, Edward Bonku, Perle Combary, and William Sampson. “Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Programme: Evaluating the effectiveness of alternative training models and other performance improvement factors on the quality of maternal care and client outcomes,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.4 MB)

Penn-Kekana, Loveday, Duane Blaauw, Khin San Tint, Desiree Monareng, and Jane Chege. "Nursing staff dynamics and implications for maternal health provision in public health facilities in the context of HIV/AIDS," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 478 KB)

2004
Kunene, Busi, Mags Beksinska, Simphiwe Zondi, Nobuhle Mthembu, Saiqa Mullick, Emma Ottolenghi, Immo Kleinschmidt, Susan Adamchak, Barbara Janowitz, and Carmen Cuthbertson. “Involving men in maternity care: South Africa,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 1.35 MB)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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