ic12 - rotary's strategic partnerships breakout: the aga khan university
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Presentation given by Anita K. M. Zaidi (The Aga Khan University) on Monday 7 May at the 2012 Rotary International Convention in Bangkok. Session: New Opportunities - An Introduction to Rotary's Strategic Partnerships.TRANSCRIPT
Maternal & Child HealthReaching the Unreached
Anita K. M. ZaidiProfessor and Chair of Pediatrics and Child Health
Aga Khan UniversityAn International University
Women’s Advancement Maternal and Child Health Early Childhood Development Problem-Based Research Quality Education
• Aga Khan University Hospitals
• School of Nursing and Midwifery
• Medical College
• Institute for Educational Development
• Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
• Aga Khan University Examination Board
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Aga Khan UniversityFocus on Health & Education, Extending to Arts & Sciences
Part of a Development Network:Aga Khan Development Network
• Working in 30 countries
• 80,000 employees
• Focusing on health, education, culture, rural and economic development
• Creating leaders and local capacity
Dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to faith, origin or gender
Maternal Mortality Ratio
Source: IHME (Lancet 2011)
Under 5 Child Mortality Ratio
Maternal & Child Survival Status, 2011
Maternal & Child Health- A Major Focus at AKU
“First, the University will build on its strengths in maternal and child health. Its research into problems which strike the most vulnerable of God’s people, is carrying it toward the goal I have as Chancellor: that the Aga Khan University should be one of the world resources in health problems of mothers and children, and that its work on these problems will be on the frontiers of knowledge.”
His Highness the Aga Khan AKU Convocation 1989
Reaching the Unreached
Addressing Key Challenges
in Maternal and
Child Health
Critical Shortages in 57 Countries
Nurses & Midwives Play a Critical Role
AKU’s Innovative Hala Project with Government Lady Health Workers
Training Lady Health Workers reduced perinatal mortality by 20% in rural Sindh, Pakistan
A new study suggests that “lady health workers,” as Pakistan calls them — women trained as part of a government program to give care to poor people in rural areas — can make a difference in saving the lives of newborns.
Researchers from Aga Khan University in Karachi followed almost 50,000 households in two health districts for two years. The areas where the women were assigned to work had 21 percent stillbirths and 15 percent fewer newborn deaths than in other areas. That success was achieved even though the health workers generally had only 10th-grade education and one extra week of training for the project.
Pakistan: Short Training for Women Workers Goes Far in Saving Newborns’ Lives
January 24, 2011
Simple Technologies Can Save Lives
Application of chlorhexidine, provided in clean delivery kits, reduced newborn deaths by 40 per cent in the poorest district of Sindh
(Source: Lancet 2012)
Centre of Excellence - Women & Child Health -
Mission
To provide a platform for improving maternal and child health by a sustained focus on human capacity development, clinical services and research
that serve the needs of women and children in developing Asian and African countries
What We Aim To Do
• Training health care professionals to provide leadership at all levels of the health care system
• Utilizing appropriate models for clinical care and planning for national, regional and global policy in maternal and child health
• Conducting cutting edge research to promote effective interventions as well as probing the frontiers of knowledge
Rotary International & Aga Khan University:A Strategic Partnership
• Training nurse educators– Rotarian-led Vocational
Training Teams• Scholarships and mentorship for
nursing and midwifery students• Partnering to improve the
quality of life of mothers and children
Focus on Maternal & Child Health in East Africa
Nigerian Vocational Training Team District 9110
Kampala, Uganda March 1, 2012
Rotary Scholars at Aga Khan University
Nigerian Vocational Training Team from District 9110Kampala, Uganda
March 1, 2012
“I hope to improve maternal and child health in my community by being a role model to the community members, health educators, and mothers. Providing proper maternal care, delivery and post natal care, lobbying for maternal health issues from the district. Ensuring that every child before one year is immunized….”
- Awor Josephine2012 Rotary Scholar
Kampala, Uganda
2012 Kenyan Rotary Scholars, Nairobi, Kenya
• Funding life-saving cardiac surgery for children of families who cannot afford expensive surgery for congenital heart defects
• Financial support committed for 2012 by the Rotary Humanitarian Trust, Pakistan Chapter for surgery for 20 children at the state-of-the-art Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi
Rotary Humanitarian Trust &AKU in Pakistan
Rotary International & Aga Khan UniversityWorking Together
Visit AKU at Booth 407
Help Us Reach the Unreached Improve the Lives of Mothers and Their Children
Anita K. M. ZaidiProfessor and Chair of Paediatrics
and Child Health