CLEVER Maternity Care

MSD for Mothers has established a 10-year, $500m global initiative to create a world where no woman dies giving birth.

Prof Robert Pattinson, Director of the South African Medical Research Council`s Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Unit in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Pretoria is interviewed telephonically to elaborate further on this project. The Prof. thanks MSD and Merck&Co for the support that they have provided in this project.

Download and/or listen to the interview here.

The Midrand Reporter also covered the MSD for Mothers - see https://midrandreporter.co.za/204840/work-clever-to-eliminate-maternal-deaths/

1 February 2019

Please download the last Clever Maternity Care poster here

5 February 2019

S J Oosthuizen article on "Midwife-led obstetric units working ‘CLEVER’: Improving perinatal outcome indicators in a South African health district" published and can be downloaded here