PATH

PATH, an international NGO, manages the secretariat of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, The Coalition carries out research, advocacy, and interventions, and provides a platform from which multiple actors work to improve the quality, availability, and choice of supplies for people around the world. In this project, the Coalition carries out research, advocacy, and interventions to test the role that market shaping can play in improving the effectiveness of markets for maternal health supplies. The work is intended to improve the understanding of the potential for market shaping to increase access to high-quality and affordable maternal health supplies.

Since 2004, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), housed at PATH, has been a pioneer in documenting and solving problems with the timely supply of contraceptives to programs in the global South. This grant will allow the RHSC to apply its skills to improving the access to, and quality of, critical maternal health supplies, such as the drugs proven to prevent or treat postpartum hemorrhage and eclampsia.

To support the manufacture and scale-up of the AntiShock Garment for reduction of deaths from postpartum hemorrhage (over 15 months).

To support the manufacture and scale-up of the AntiShock Garment for postpartum hemorrhage treatment.

To support a project to encourage health reform efforts to address the reproductive health needs of married adolescents (over three years).