UDAAN: A 360 degree Approach to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy
UDAAN, a five-year project aimed at reducing early marriage of girls and teenage pregnancy is being implemented in Rajasthan. The project was designed to address alarming situation of early marriage of girls leading to early childbearing, dropping out from school and other detrimental consequences. It adopted a multi-sectoral approach to prevent teenage pregnancy, layering interventions beyond sexual health, to fundamentally change the way adolescent programmes operate and achieve results. The investment leveraged existing government platforms and programmes to focus on three inter-related components.
SAMVEG
SAMVEG aims to scale-up & sustain interventions to improve MNCH outcomes in identified vulnerable geographies of India.
Redwing Labs: Ensuring drone-based delivery for medical supplies
An on-demand, drone-based, logistics solution company that is focused on establishing autonomous drone supply chain system to provide agile and guaranteed delivery of medical products to public health facilities.
InnAccel Technologies: Developing Saans, a CPAP device to provide short-term breathing support
Saans is a patented, multi-powered, multi-mode, infrastructure-independent, non-invasive ventilation device that provides short-term breathing support for infants suffering from Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS).
Pulse Oximetry in Pneumonia: Generating evidence of using a Multimodal Device (MMD)
The project is aimed at generating evidence on feasibility, acceptability, usability, impact, and cost effectiveness of pulse oximeter and its potential for scaling up. We introduced pulse oximetry in selected Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) in aspirational districts.