Member News: PATH and USAID bring low-cost healthcare to rural poor

On Tuesday, USAID announced that it has partnered with InterAction member PATH in two projects to bring low-cost healthcare to the rural poor around the globe.

The most common cause of maternal mortality is postpartum bleeding, and current technologies to stop this are prohibitively expensive for many women. PATH will develop an affordable “balloon tamponade,” nonsurgical devices with a success rate between 70-100 percent that stop bleeding within 15 minutes.

PATH will also lead the new USAID-funded HealthTech V, the latest in a series of cooperative agreements to “identify, develop and introduce new health tools and technologies that can be used in rural, low-resource settings in the developing world where access to health facilities and electricity is not available.”

For more information, see USAID’s full press release.