Assessing changes in costs of maternal postpartum services between 2013 and 2014 in Burkina Faso.

Introduction: In Africa, a majority of women bring their infant to health services for immunization, but few are checked in the postpartum (PP) period. The Missed opportunities for maternal and infant health (MOMI) EU-funded project has implemented a package of interventions at community and facility levels to uptake maternal and infant postpartum care (PPC). One of these interventions is the integration of maternal PPC in child clinics and infant immunization services, which proved to be successful for improving maternal and infant PPC.

Integration of postpartum care into child health and immunization services in Burkina Faso: findings from a cross-sectional study.

Background: The Missed Opportunities for Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project, which aimed at upgrading maternal and infant postpartum care (PPC), implemented a package of interventions including the integration of maternal PPC in infant immunization services in 12 health facilities in Kaya Health district in Burkina Faso from 2013 to 2015. This paper assesses the coverage and the quality of combined mother-infant PPC in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services (RMNCH).

Methods: We conducted a mixed methods study with cross-sectional surveys before and after the intervention in the Kaya health and demographic surveillance system.

A cross-sectional mixed study of the opportunity to improve maternal postpartum care in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health services in the Kaya health district of Burkina Faso.

Objective: To propose a rationale to improve maternal postpartum care in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) services.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional mixed study in the Kaya health district in Burkina Faso based on two data collection exercises conducted between December 2012 and May 2013. A household survey of 757 mothers in their first year after delivery was processed.

Assessing the costs and cost-effectiveness of a skilled care initiative in rural Burkina Faso.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to assess the cost-effectiveness of a skilled attendance strategy (the Skilled Care Initiative, SCI) in enhancing maternal health care in a remote, rural district of Burkina Faso and to analyse more broadly the costs and cost patterns of maternal health provision in the intervention and comparison districts.

Methods: The approach used was to cost the standard provision of maternal care, to analyse the main cost structures, and to derive cost estimates per facility. The additional costs attributable to SCI were identified.