Direct Relief's interventions include expanding access to safe deliveries
by training and equipping
traditional birth attendants and midwives, addressing complications in
birth with emergency obstetric care, and enrolling mothers into the Prevention of Maternal - to - Child Transmission of HIV program.
These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of
traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of
traditional birth attendants to increase participation in health
by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to increase the effectiveness of care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors
by nurses, lay health workers, and training of
traditional birth attendants to increase coverage or access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of care.