Since 2008, the USAID Bureau for Global Health's flagship Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) has worked in more than 50 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean to improve the health of women and their families. MCHIP supports programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family planning, nutrition, malaria and HIV/AIDS, and encourages opportunities for integration of programs and services when feasible.

 

Building on program experience and lessons learned (from ACCESS, BASICS, IMMUNIZATIONbasics, POPPHI, ACCESS-FP, and Child Survival Technical Support Plus [CSTS+]), MCHIP addresses the barriers to accessing and using key evidence-based interventions across the life stages—from pre-pregnancy to age 5—by linking communities, primary health facilities, and hospitals. By helping countries identify and focus on those innovations that will save lives, MCHIP supports delivery of evidence-based interventions through strengthening government health systems, nongovernmental organizations, and other local partners.

MCHIP's overall strategic approach is guided by five interrelated principles:

• Taking high-level impact interventions to scale
• Ensuring country ownership
• Creating change through global and regional influence
• Improving measurement and use of data at the country and global levels
• Expanding coverage through integrated approaches

 

What we do

Through the delivery of high-impact interventions, MCHIP will substantially reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality in 30 countries, contributing to Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. Few programs have effectively integrated a full range of high-impact MNCH interventions at scale. However, MCHIP presents a vehicle in which the whole is greater than the sum of individual parts, enabling the Program to respond to the need for a more integrated approach to services while taking into account epidemiology, health system capacity, efficacy, coverage, cost, cultural acceptability and other factors. As a global leader in MNCH with expertise in grassroots PVO/NGO implementation, the Program will help countries identify and focus on those interventions that will make a difference in saving lives. MCHIP integrates programming in maternal, newborn, and child health, immunization, family planning,