Saving and improving lives
across Africa.

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5,800

BABIES' AND MOTHERS' LIVES SAVED

In 2024, LifeNet-trained healthcare providers saved  5,800 newborns and mothers by implementing proper infant CPR and postpartum hemorrhage treatments.

The LifeNet model is low-cost, scalable and life-saving.

One woman, every two minutes, dies in childbirth each day in sub-Saharan Africa.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
We believe the answer lies in the hands of skilled local healthcare providers who, when equipped with proper tools and resources, can prevent thousands of deaths each year. Our highly-scalable approach leverages assets already active in local community facilities, by building capacity and empowering them to provide high-quality, compassionate care through our model.

HIGH QUALITY HEALTHCARE, FOR LESS THAN A DOLLAR

40% of Africa’s healthcare services take place at faith-based facilities.

Yet they are often under-resourced and over-burdened.

LifeNet partners with 426 of these existing facilities to implement financial and management best practices, so they can become sustainable and provide quality healthcare for years to come. We ensure people in the communities we serve can flourish through a model that is both highly effective and remarkably low-cost — including training for clinical best practices, mentorship of healthcare providers and robust, ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

Average cost per patient visit: $0.49 

At LifeNet, we witness how small investments with the right solutions lead to great ROI: high quality healthcare and many lives saved.

426

HEALTH FACILITIES

6

COUNTRIES

Duke Study Confirms: LifeNet Improves Healthcare for Moms & Babies

Duke Global Health Institute’s 15-month longitudinal study “provides evidence that the LifeNet clinical training intervention significantly improved maternal and neonatal healthcare quality.”

LEADING IMPACT INDICATORS

BEFORE LIFENET TRAINING
11%
AFTER LIFENET TRAINING
92%

Focus: Hygiene
Goal: Reduce infection

Hand washing materials are available and clinic staff regularly  wash their hands.

BEFORE LIFENET TRAINING
8%
AFTER LIFENET TRAINING
94%

Focus: Infant Resuscitation 
Goal: Reduce neonatal mortality

Healthcare providers have the knowledge and skills needed to perform proper infant resuscitation techniques, including CPR, to save newborns’ lives.

BEFORE LIFENET TRAINING
10%
AFTER LIFENET TRAINING
91%

Focus: Financial documentation
Goal: Increase financial sustainability

Systems for tracking daily revenues and expenses are up to date.

BEFORE LIFENET TRAINING
15%
AFTER LIFENET TRAINING
96%

Focus: Treating postpartum hemorrhage
Goal: Reduce maternal mortality

Healthcare providers have the knowledge and skills necessary to implement proper postpartum hemorrhage treatments to save mothers’ lives.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

 

We are humbled by the support we receive while we transform healthcare across Africa.
Hover over the images below to find out more about each accolade and membership.

CONNECT WITH US

GLOBAL SUPPORT OFFICE

PO Box 21457
Washington, DC 20009
+1 (202) 480-9002

IN BURUNDI

26 Avenue Ngendandumwe
Bujumbura, Burundi

IN UGANDA

Princess Anne Drive, Plot 56
Bugolobi Kampala Uganda

IN DRC

No. 371 Av. Patrice Emery Lumumba, Q. Nguba
C. Ibanda, Bukavu
Democratic Republic of the Congo

IN MALAWI

Off Presidential Highway,
Plot Number 116, Area 14
Lilongwe, Malawi

HEADQUARTERS

Jumuia Place
Lenana Road, Nairobi Kenya

IN GHANA

5, Kobla Nelson AV, Okuja Rd
Abofu, Achimota
Accra, Ghana

SOCIAL INNOVATION IN HEALTH INITIATIVE

We were chosen as one of 25 high impact healthcare delivery solutions for the
2015 Social Innovation in Health Initiative, in partnership with the World Health Organization.