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To address a major gap in technology availability, PATH and Sinapi Biomedical have collaborated to design and develop the Ellavi uterine balloon tamponade (UBT) to treat maternal mortality from postpartum hemorrhage. This low-cost, fully assembled UBT was designed specifically for use in low-resource health facilities. The Ellavi UBT addresses issues with the cost, assembly and safety of other devices, providing this lifesaving technology to healthcare workers.

…born in the nation’s largest city and capital, at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). GPHC has a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) but mortality remains high, due to problems of insufficient education, limited experience and minimal equipment. With the Ministry of Health of Guyana as a partner, Guyana Help the Kids (GHTK) is receiving a $350,000 Grand Challenges Canada grant to augment $250,000 from its own resources for equipment, education, and support to physicians and staff, to improve the survival rate of high-risk neonates in Guyana. The project will lift and sustain the level of neonatal intensive care at…nurses throughout Guyana – in particular those at the five network hospitals, which account for more than 80 per cent of all deliveries in the nation.“We intend to significantly decrease neonatal mortality by empowering Guyanese healthcare providers through education and technology, which will ensure sustainability,” says Dr. Narendra Singh, founder of Guyana Help the Kids.

ChipCare Corporation’s mission is to unlock global health equity through point-of-care innovation. Our low cost, handheld extremely mobile and rapid blood testing device will increase life-saving clinical decision making at the community level in poor or remote settings. By 2015, UN plans to have trained one million community health workers in Africa. Our goal is to have our device into the hands of every one of these community health workers.For more information, read the News Release issued on September 16, 2013.Follow ChipCare on Twitter @chipcare and @jmzfraser.

In Pakistan, as in most developing countries, early child development is a neglected area of public health. Malnutrition and a mother’s incapability to supply effective care can contribute significantly to development delays in children.The innovators at the Association for Social Development are creating an intervention that aims to engage private clinics to promote optimal early development of young children in poor urban environments, through an integrated package of mother and child care. The care package will have three main components:…

The Identification and Intervention for Dementia in Elderly Africans (IDEA) project is a culturally adapted dementia screening tool. Post-screening, the IDEA study employs the principles of Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), a non-pharmacological, group treatment for mild to moderate dementia which aims to delay declines in cognition and quality of life through themed activities. Evidence shows that CST can be effectively delivered by non-specialist health…

Lixil (Japan) has developed its "SATO" series of sustainable and affordable toilets as a sanitation social enterprise. The toilets range from $2 to $10, use up to 80% less water, and feature a flap under the seat that seals the toilet after use, putting a barrier between fecal waste and people to block odours, flies …

…sudden onset with permanent partial paralysis in the legs, caused by consumption of poorly processed cassava that has high levels of cyanide. This project will train mothers to use a cassava processing wetting method (WTM) to remove the cyanide from the cassava flour before it is eaten. WTM training will be embedded within Early Childhood Development (ECD) caregiver training to better motivate the use of the WTM, saving children's brains from cyanide while providing mothers with practical strategies for stimulating cognitive/physical development. 

This project will pilot mobile laboratory units within 10 public health units in the Yoro department in Honduras to increase testing and treatment services for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and increase awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and equitable gender relations through the application of Ayuda en Accion’s “New Masculinities Approach”. The …

…Economics Ltd is developing and testing a mobile phone-based sexual and reproductive health (SRH) service targeting youth in Central Uganda. Goals include increasing SRH awareness from 61% to 81% amongst 15–30 year olds, and uptake of modern contraception and sexually transmitted services, from 30.2% to 50.2%, and from 37.2 % to 57.2%, respectively.

Post-partum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries. The Maternal PPH Wrap is a user-friendly and affordable medical device to control PPH before professional intervention is available. The device can be used to administer external aortic compression, by application of a radial force on the descending aorta. This…the uterus, managing PPH. This innovation is being implemented in Uganda, where many women give birth at home or clinic with the assistance of a family member or traditional birth attendant. In the event of PPH, the Maternal PPH Wrap can help control PPH while the mother is transferred to a hospital for medical intervention.