Document Type
Brief
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
Between 2016 and 2018, the Population Council, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Family Planning and Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh, implemented an intervention to confront pre-eclampsia/eclampsia (PE/E). This was part of the Ending Eclampsia project, a five-year USAID investment that implemented aspects of the Primary Health Care (PHC) PE/E Model in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The intervention in Bangladesh comprised two components of the PHC for PE/E Model: 1) Task sharing to detect and manage PE/E (MgSO4 and referral) with PHC providers (Family Welfare Visitors, Sub-Assistant Community Medical Officers, and Nurse-Midwives), and 2) Introducing antihypertensive drug provision at the PHC level. This brief describes the true cost for implementing the two components in Bangladesh and includes a brief description of the activities within each component. Lessons from implementation of the PHC PE/E Model in Bangladesh could lead to cost savings in future interventions.
Recommended Citation
Hossain, Sharif M.I., Pooja Sripad, and Sara Chace Dwyer. 2019. "Implementing components of the primary health care pre-eclampsia/eclampsia model in Bangladesh: A cost analysis," Ending Eclampsia Country Brief. Dhaka: Population Council.
DOI
10.31899/rh11.1008
Language
English
Project
Ending Eclampsia
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