Expand Maternal Healthcare in Northern Haiti

Dear GlobalGiving Community,

As we welcome 2026, we are grateful for your continued support of our efforts to improve and protect maternal and newborn health in Haiti. This month, we are sharing several updates from our team as well as a look ahead at what is to come in 2026.

First, some key achievements since our last report:

• We continued our awareness-raising activities, focusing on pregnancy-related topics, in our clinics and via community health workers, with the goal of increasing women’s health knowledge to better prepare them for healthy pregnancy and childbirth.
• We continued promotion of our full range of maternal health service offerings, with an emphasis on the affordable cost of services offered by C2C.
• We built the capacity of maternal and child health nurses on clinical standards and best practices through twice monthly “academic review” sessions.
• We continued the successful implementation of Mothers’ Clubs, organized cohorts of pregnant women of similar gestational ages to promote peer learning and support during pregnancy.
• Our community health team led home visits for pregnant women who missed scheduled appointments, complemented by reminder phone calls to facilitate continuity of care.
• We distributed postnatal kits to breastfeeding mothers attending C2C’s postpartum services.
• We provided new training on basic obstetric imaging practices for two nurses who had not previously received the training, ensuring consistent, high-quality screening and diagnostics.
• We educated new mothers on the benefits of facility-based deliveries, postpartum care, and exclusive breastfeeding for infants, as well as on long-acting family planning methods and the importance of newborn vaccination, providing referrals when needed.
• Following the launch of our maternal health program at our Roche Plate clinic, we deployed a new ultrasound machine, an essential tool in screening for abnormalities and monitoring fetal growth and development.

Amidst so many successes, we also faced several challenges, many of which were solved thanks to the generous support of donors like yourself. Challenges included:

• Women continuing to opt for home birth: This is a struggle we have long-faced but are committed to overcoming through continuous behavior change activities and education.
• Vaccine stockouts: The Ministry of Health continues to face logistical challenges leading to the stockouts of many important vaccinations, which has prevented many of our patients from receiving initial and booster doses.
• Equipment issues: While six of our eight clinics offer maternal health services, four of the probes for these machines broke this year. Your support directly helped us to overcome this challenge so that women could continue receiving the ultrasound examinations they need to ensure healthy pregnancy and delivery.

Lastly, we’d like to share a year-in-review for the Maternal Health Program, made possible by your continued support through GlobalGiving. 2025 was a huge year for this program, and we could not have done it without community members like you!

• We increased the number of first prenatal visits by 52% over the prior year, from 2,295 to 3,499 visits!
• We increased the number of fourth prenatal visits by 33% over the prior year, from 1,059 to 1,406!
• We performed 3,503 obstetric ultrasounds, compared to 1,239 the prior year, a whopping 183% increase.
• Though we struggled with the continuation of women preferring home-based childbirth, we did increase the number of hospital-based deliveries to 471, up from 322 the prior year, a 46% increase.
• Postnatal consultations rose from 617 to 760, a 23% increase.
• Postnatal home visits rose from 502 to 783, a 56% increase.

We hope you are as excited as we are to see the progress of our Maternal Health Program over the past year. We are even more excited to share with you where this program goes in 2026. Thank you, from all of our staff in Haiti, for your continued support - it is making a huge difference for mothers and children in Haiti.