Focus Area: Maternal Health
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HaRP Approach
The Health Research Program (HaRP) seeks to reduce the following maternal and infant health outcomes, including:
- Mortality related to pregnancy through six months postpartum
- Fetal loss, pre-term birth and infant mortality through six months of age
- Maternal morbidity due to infection and obstetric complications
- Maternal nutritional status and body composition
- Infant growth and morbidity
Secondary aims of practical importance include:
- Assessing the prevalence and risk factors of multiple facets of maternal morbidity elucidating causes of pregnancy-related and non-pregnancy mortality among rural women of reproductive age
- Describing health-seeking behavior of mothers during and following pregnancy
- Revealing the burden of epidemiology of birth defects in infants
Related Links
- Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Activities at USAID - May 2006 [PDF, 881MB] (requires Adobe Reader)
The U.S. Congress requested that USAID provide a report describing its role in the research, development, and application cycle and its efforts to coordinate research and development activities with other agencies. With this report USAID provides a proactive strategy for using research funds and a plan for stimulating the development and introduction of key products to address diseases affecting the developing world and countries in transition.
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