ContextWorld Vision and its partners designed a mobile health innovation and implemented a research study in Herat Province, Afghanistan, nested within the broader Better Health for Afghan Mothers and Children (BHAMC)
project, which aimed to improve
maternal, neonatal, and child survival.
BHAMC reached 36,200 children under
five years old and 45,250 women
of reproductive age in 74 villages
across four districts of Herat. See
Box 1 for a description of the comprehensive
maternal and newborn care
approach. An important component of
the strategy was enlisting a network
of CHWs and community leaders to:
strengthen linkages of households and
communities to health posts, hospitals,
and skilled providers; improve
health behavior; and provide basic
lifesaving care within the home and
community using Home Based Life
Saving Skills