To build capacity and provide field support for maternal-infant health (MIH) efforts by enhancing training and technical assistance resources that support organizations such as perinatal quality collaboratives (PQCs) to improve quality care.
To supplement CDC’s efforts to improve respectful maternal care at a system-level by supporting Perinatal Quality Collaboratives to leverage Hear Her resources as part of quality improvement initiatives with hospitals throughout their state.
To help CDC increase understanding of the effectiveness of using maternal tenofovir containing combination drug during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and HBV in co-infected mothers.
To create a long-term network of high-quality sites to collect robust and standardized primary data with the overarching objective of tracking the preventable causes of childhood death globally.
To provide obstetricians and gynecologists with fellowship training opportunities in infectious diseases and sexually transmitted diseases in women and in pregnancy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To expand the reach of Hear Her resources for healthcare professionals and American Indian and Alaska Native communities in the United States and conduct exploratory formative work to determine the feasibility of a new segment of the campaign to reach a global audience.