The Africa Center of Excellence for Population Health and Policy (ACEPHAP), Bayero University Kano, is collaborating with International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) - a global health research institute based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that works to solve key public health challenges like malnutrition, infectious diseases, and maternal and child health - to adapt and implement the Q-Mat, an innovative low-cost tool designed to support earlier recognition of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) in home birth, in north-western Nigeria.

Professor Hadiza Shehu Galadanci, the Director of the Africa Center of Excellence for Population Health and Policy (ACEPHAP), chaired a stakeholder meeting yesterday, Tuesday, July 9th 2025, on the necessity for data alignment between the Kano State Surveillance for Evidence and Policy (KASSEP) and other government agencies working on maternal and child data.