HealthBridge worked with local partners and governments in Banke District, Nepal and Son La Province, Vietnam to reduce preventable maternal and child illness and death and improve nutrition for vulnerable mothers and children.

Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutritional shift from a predominance of problems of undernutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies, stunting and wasting, to a more complex situation characterized by a rapid increase in health problems associated with over-nutrition, such as obesity, diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertensive disease and other non-communicable diseases, (NCDs).

Together with local partners, HealthBridge is examining how poverty, social and gender barriers and living in rural areas contribute to delays in access to, and the quality and utilization of, maternal and child health services in Tanzania. HealthBridge and partners are also identifying interventions to address these barriers through community-based participatory action research.