International Development Grant
Interrupting Pathways to Sepsis
Project Number: CA-3-S065353001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $2,458,907.00
Start Date: January 10, 2012
End Date: September 30, 2015
Duration: 3.7 years
Project Description
The purpose of this project is to improve maternal and child survival in Bangladesh through the prevention and interruption of pathways to sepsis. Through demonstration sites where innovative approaches are tested the project works with communities midwives and hospital care providers to improve diagnostics and early intervention of childhood infections and strengthen health systems. The project provides training for 60 midwives and birth attendants 45 nurses and doctors 100 primary health care providers and 12 paramedics. It also aims to improve health care responses to suspected sepsis episodes benefiting 18 400 pregnant women and their newborns and 16 600 children under the age of five. The University of British Columbia is working in partnership with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh to implement this project. This project is part of Canada's Maternal Newborn and Child Health commitment. The maximum CIDA contribution to this project includes $10 000 for monitoring purposes.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (February 2016) include: (1) 41 maternal syndromic sepsis cases were treated; (2) 1 036 (346 female 690 male) newborn and early childhood syndromic sepsis cases were treated; (3) an estimated 316 children under-five were saved and 22 maternal deaths were avoided; (4) a reduction of delay in care for sick children reduced from 2 days to 1.8 days; (5) 265 Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) were trained and regularly conducted household visits; (6) 1 934 maternal emergency and 2 538 pediatric emergency calls were made to the call center; (7) 66% improvement in household capacity to take early action and to use call-in centre for suspected serious infection of post-partum mothers newborns and under-five children; and (8) health facility deliveries increased from 20% to 45% representing 2 538 deliveries. These results contributed to improving maternal and child survival by interrupting pathways to sepsis in two rural sub-districts of Bangladesh covering a total population of about 500 000.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
University of British Columbia - University-Industry Liaison Office
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Donor country personnel
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP