Monthly Archives: March 2023

Text4Life: A mobile phone application to connect pregnant women with emergency transport and obstetric care in rural Nigeria

Access to skilled maternity care is crucial for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, but barriers to access remain in many contexts, including rural communities in Nigeria. In this blog post, the author of a new paper in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth discusses the development and outcomes of Text4Life, a mobile-phone based intervention to increase pregnant women’s access to skilled maternity care in rural Nigeria.

Developing World Health