Project Lead(s): Marcos Da Silva de Souza
Most maternal and neonatal deaths occur in low-income settings as a result of severe postpartum hemorrhage, sepsis and complications of delivery, all of which can be managed with medication if promptly addressed. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ has developed a single-serve “pod” suppository-maker (SBOX), which has been strategically designed to instantly produce specific suppositories to treat both mothers and newborns requiring early pharmacological treatment in under-resourced rural areas of low- and middle-income economies.