The 2018 Acting on the Call report details how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) partners with 25 countries on their journey to self-reliance for preventing child and maternal deaths by enabling countries to plan, fund, and manage their own continued progress.

For the first time ever, we have calculated a return on investment for a portion of our maternal and child survival efforts.

This new analysis shows that our work to eliminate health system bottlenecks can yield an average return on investment of 6 to 1, and will make available around $26.9 billion in public and private funds in the health sector across our 25 priority countries for preventing child and maternal deaths.

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SHARE USAID'S ANNUAL PROGRESS TO PREVENT CHILD AND MATERNAL DEATHS

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• .@USAID's support helps countries plan, fund, and manage their own health systems. Learn more about our work in the last year in a NEW Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

• In 2017, @USAID helped 76 million women and children access essential — and often lifesaving — health services. Learn more in our new report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

• What can yield an average return on investment of 6 to 1 by 2025? Eliminating health system bottlenecks that impact #MomAndBaby. See how in @USAIDGH’s new Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #USAIDTransforms

• Indonesia's Ministry of Health has directed maternal and child health priority districts to replicate USAID’s approaches using its own domestic resources, for which USAID developed standard operating procedures and budget implications. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

• In the last year, @USAID standardized Kenya’s health worker training process, contributing to a 30% cost savings due to increased skills and efficiencies. Learn more: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

• From 2012 to 2017, locally raised health funds in #Uganda increased by 52% as a result of @USAID’s support to local councils to assess district-level financial performance. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

• In a single province in Mozambique, the percentage of men participating in at least one antenatal care visit increased from 70% to 81% over the last year. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

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In Malawi, @USAID leveraged funds from Elma Philanthropies to expand the use of the bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (bCPAP) innovation into Christian Health Association of Malawi hospitals and training colleges. This USAID-supported cost-effective, high-impact innovation helps premature infants breathe by providing oxygen therapy. Learn how USAID’s investments in high-impact innovations help accelerate progress to prevent child and maternal deaths: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms [TAG: @CHAMalawi and @USAIDGH]

How do @USAID’s maternal and child survival interventions support countries on their journey to self-reliance? USAID supports self-reliance by building country capacity and reducing disease burden while strengthening health systems that enable countries to plan, fund and manage their own continued progress. USAID’s maternal and child survival efforts focus on 25 priority countries to partner with countries on their journey to self-reliance. You can learn about our work in each of these countries in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms [TAG: @USAIDGH]

Verina Musoki is one of the 8.7 million women @USAID has supported to give birth in a facility since 2012. USAID concentrates its maternal health efforts in 25 priority countries, together accounting for more than two-thirds of maternal deaths worldwide. You can learn more about USAID’s progress in the last year in preventing maternal and child deaths in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms #CaringforMoms [TAG: @USAIDGH]

Since 2012, @USAID has provided 12.2 million people with access to basic drinking water services. By partnering with @TheCocaColaCo, USAID has leveraged $2.5 million to build WASH infrastructure in urban and rural areas in Madagascar. USAID proactively seeks out partnerships that leverage skills, assets, technologies and resources that increase our interventions’ impact. Learn about USAID’s partnerships working to accelerate progress in maternal and child survival: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms [TAG: @USAIDGH]

@USAID strengthens countries’ health systems so they can deal with infectious threats, including through infection prevention training and equipping health workers with the right tools and information. Learn how USAID’s efforts to meet the primary health needs of women and children helps to increase U.S. national security: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms [TAG: USAIDGH]

SHARE THE PROGRESS OF USAID'S 25 FOCUS COUNTRIES ON THEIR JOURNEY TO SELF-RELIANCE

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“Whenever a patient comes here, I treat them as if we’re family,” says Shanta, a paramedic working at a @USAID-supported clinic in #Bangladesh. Learn how nearly 400 clinics in Bangladesh are expected to be financially independent of donor support by 2021: https://www.usaid.gov/actingonthecall/stories/empowering-poor-communities-enterprise-driven-development #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

Gulistan is one of the more than 31,900 mothers in the Indian state of Uttarakhand who have benefitted from the @USAID-supported Care around Birth approach. Now, state and national governments in India have invested $82 million to scale-up similar USAID approaches. https://www.usaid.gov/actingonthecall/stories/targeted-investments-yield-multitudes-india%E2%80%99s-women-and-children #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

Thanks to a @USAID trained health volunteer in #Nepal, Srijana and Bimala knew the importance chlorhexidine to prevent newborn infection when they delivered. Learn how newborns are benefiting from the Ministry’s commitment to buy 700,000 more tubes of antiseptic in 2018. https://www.usaid.gov/actingonthecall/stories/nepal-trailblazer-newborn-innovation-prevent-infection #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

“We are farmers, but we can afford to pay,” says Raissa, a member of #Rwanda’s Community-Based Health Insurance, which extends equitable access to health services. Learn how @USAID transitioned its support of the program to be managed by @RssbInfo: https://www.usaid.gov/actingonthecall/stories/removing-financial-hardship-increase-access-and-promote-preventive-health #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms

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• In the last year, @USAIDAfghan worked with the Government of #Afghanistan to add chlorhexidine to prevent newborn sepsis to the community health worker drug kit, saving the lives of 14,000 newborns. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• Learn how #Bangladesh’s Smiling Sun Network of 399 clinics — supported by @USAID for the past 20 years — is expected to gradually reduce financial dependence on USAID in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• After @USAIDBurma supported health worker training across five states in #Burma, its Government adopted the approach to train >350 health workers in the last year. Learn more: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In the last year, @USAID mobilized $120,000 from private companies to support family planning service provision in the provinces of Lualaba and Haut Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In the last year, @USAID increased financial sustainability in 90% of #Ethiopia’s public facilities. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• .@USAID’s support helped reduce chronic malnutrition in 6,200 Ghanaian households with pregnant women and children under-2, with the model now being expanded by the Government of #Ghana to 37,000 households. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In the last year, @USAID_Haiti supported 2 faith-based organizations to train health providers across the #Haiti on high-impact interventions such as newborn resuscitation. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• By 2025, @USAID’s maternal and child survival efforts in #India will result in $25.5B in resources mobilized — a 2,928 to 1 return on the Agency’s investment. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In @USAID-supported Indonesian facilities, maternal deaths decreased by 50% and early newborn deaths by 23% over a five-year period. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby
• In the last year, @USAIDKenya standardized Kenya’s health worker training process, contributing to a 30% cost savings due to increased skills and efficiencies. Learn more: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In one year, @USAID’s support helped increase Liberian households with at least one insecticide treated net from 50% to 62% and children sleeping under a net from 37% to 44%. Learn more in the NEW Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• .@USAID’s partnership with @CocaColaCo in #Madagascar leveraged $2.5 million from a $500,000 USAID investment to build #WASH infrastructure in urban and rural areas. Learn more about USAID’s public-private partnerships in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In the last year, @USAIDMalawi integrated nutrition services into a planned vaccination campaign, resulting in 8.1 million children receiving the measles vaccine and 2.9 million children receiving Vitamin A supplements in #Malawi. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• From 2011 to 2017, stock out rates reduced from 65% to 27% in #Mali, as a result of @USAID investments in strengthening the supply chain management system. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• In a single province in Mozambique, the percentage of men participating in at least one antenatal care visit increased from 70% to 81% over the last year. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• Between 2012 and 2017, ~9,600 newborn lives have been saved in #Nepal as a result of @USAIDNepal support to rollout of a cost-efficient antiseptic gel for newborn umbilical care. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• .@USAID assisted 4 Nigerian laboratories in achieving international accreditation to conduct quality assurance testing of medicines, meaning these maternal and child health drugs no longer need to be sent abroad for testing. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• Since 2014, @USAID_Pakistan supported provincial governments in #Pakistan to allocate $110M more in health funding for procurement and transportation of contraceptives from their own domestic resources. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• .@USAID’s support of the expansion of #Rwanda’s quality health improvement program to all district hospitals doubled quality scores over five years. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• .@USAIDSenegal mapped out the private sector in Senegal, which will provide the Ministry of Health and Social Action with an accurate and comprehensive database of 2,754 private facilities. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• For the first time in #SouthSudan’s history, contraceptives are being routinely sent to health facilities outside of the capital as a result of a @USAID-designed distribution system. Learn more: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• From 2013 to 2017 the number of unvaccinated children decreased by 93% in #Tanzania’s Lake Zone as a result of the Reaching Every Child strategy. https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• From 2012 to 2017, locally raised health funds in #Uganda increased by 52% as a result of @USAIDUganda’s support to local councils to assess district-level financial performance. Learn more in the 2018 Acting on the Call report: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #USAIDTransforms
• 53 traditional and religious leaders were trained by @USAID as maternal health change champions in #Zambia, resulting in improved health seeking behaviors in their communities. Learn more: https://www.usaid.gov/ActingOnTheCall #MomAndBaby #CaringforMoms