Emergency Transport Schemes (ETS) offer an affordable means of transportation for health emergencies and patient referrals to health facilities, in communities where no formal transport services exist, or where affordable...
According to the World Bank (2017), Nigeria has the fourth worst estimated maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the world of 917 deaths per 100,000 live births. Nasarawa State, located in North Central Nigeria, has been...
In July 2013, Transaid, in partnership with Nigerian NGO, Society for Family Health (SFH), received funding from Comic Relief to deliver a five-year programme aimed at improving access to maternal health services for rural...
In rural Nigeria, many communities live far from a health facility, with only limited transport available to take people to vital services. This often means that pregnant women cannot afford to access medical treatment in...
According to the latest Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (DHS), only about 36% of Nigerian women deliver at a health facility compared to the 63% of women who have homebirths. In rural and peri-urban areas, where transport...
In Nasarawa State, Nigeria, rural communities are often far from primary health care services, and transport is prohibitively expensive for the majority of people. Many women are therefore unable to seek assistance when...
The Comic Relief funded Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS) programme ran in Adamawa State, North East Nigeria, for a five-year period between 2013 and 2018. It focused on reducing the health care access gap for pregnant women...
The Emergency Transport Scheme programme ran in Adamawa State, North East Nigeria, for a five-year period between 2013 and 2018 and was funded by Comic Relief. This focused on bridging the gap in access to health care for...
This tool is to be used to gather qualitative and quantitative data from users of an Emergency Transport Scheme. The tool gathers data such as costs, timings and information on health seeking behaviours to inform the...
These tools are to be used to determine the effect of the use of a particular mode of transport has on the health status of women on arrival at a facility for maternal health care versus those arriving via other modes of...
The assessment is a way to validate assumptions made during the programme design. It is also an opportunity to learn more about the area and anything which may influence the implementation of the programme Transaid launched...
This assessment is a way to validate assumptions made during the programme design. It is also an opportunity to learn more about the area, from the women who live there, and anything which may influence the implementation of...