"Maternal Death Surveillance and Response." (English) Presentations to the Second Stakeholders Meeting on Implementing the Recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health Ottawa. Session3A: Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (English) 21-22 November 2011

1. Maternal death surveillance
and response
18 participants in the session
3 Presentations
MDSR Overview
Experience from Mozambique
Experience from Brazil

2. What is the goal
• Reduced maternal deaths
• Timely , quality information to
identify direct and underlying causes
of Maternal deaths and take remedial
actions –accountability framework
• MDSR in every country

3. What would success look like
MDSR institutionalized in all countries
Maternal death notifiable
Improved capacity of the health
system to respond including quality of
care
system that goes beyond death
notification – eg pregnancy tracking
system

4. Main gaps &Challenges
Guidelines and standardization of the
process
Underreporting due to lack of trust in
the process
Transparency of the process
MDSR at community level
Weak pregnancy surveillance system
Scale up of IT innovations

5. Priority actions
Make maternal death notifiable
Standardized guidelines -questionnaire for HF
and Community level
Training in MDSR
Use/integrate of IT for pregnancy registration
and death notification including at community
level
Strengthen the pregnancy surveillance
system
Involvement of and support from
professional bodies
Cases studies and south South cooperation