Learning from successful women's health initiatives in India

"With almost 200 million people living in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, a state more populous than the entire country of Brazil, the sheer breadth of exciting, new ways to improve maternal and child health is enormous," Gary Darmstadt, head of the Family Health Division of the foundation, and Wendy Prosser, a research analyst with the division, write in this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog. They conclude, "Our partners in Uttar Pradesh are asking for inventive ways to share knowledge to scale successful interventions which have a positive, lasting impact on women's and children's health. And we're working to address this need, given the tremendous potential to increase our collective ability for impact when it comes to maternal, newborn, and child health in India -- and to disseminate this learning from India for benefit throughout the world" (6/7).