For the past 8 months, The Mama-Pikin Foundation has been supporting the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Sierra Leone to develop the National Training Package for the use of Heat-Stable Carbetocin and Tranexamic Acid to prevent and treat postpartum hemorrhage. These are highly effective medications that the MOH will introduce in the country this year.

The process began with a workshop in February 2024, which brought together about 60 doctors and midwives from all districts to contribute to the development of training materials. Today, our team symbolically handed over some of the finalized printed materials to our MOH colleagues. These materials will be used to start training health workers across all districts this September.

Alongside WHO and UNFPA, our organization is supporting the MOH to ensure that all women in Sierra Leone have access to these lifesaving medications, moving toward a future where no woman dies from childbirth in Sierra Leone.

This work is funded by the Catalytic Opportunity Fund for the Introduction and Scale-Up of New and Lesser-Used Postpartum Hemorrhage Medicines.