Healthy Beginnings: Community-Based Care for Mothers and Newborns
Baby Shower Initiative (BSI) is a congregation-based initiative that uses prayer sessions to identify and recruit pregnant women; a congregation-organized baby shower for health interventions (including on-site prenatal testing); and baby receptions for post-delivery follow-up and retention.
An integrated testing approach to prenatal screening that includes tests for anemia, malaria, sickle cell disease, HIV, hepatitis and syphilis. We also add specific conditions that are prevalent in the local area we serve.
Baby Shower Tool Kit: To provide country programs with the background, procedures, and resources to support the implementation of Baby Showers in congregational settings for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and adaptation to the local context.
PBS Documentary – Baby Shower 2019