Safe passages program

(a) Establishment The Assistant Secretary for Global Health is authorized to provide assistance through establishing a Safe Passages Maternal and Child Health Program, to reduce maternal and child mortality in low and lower-middle income countries with high maternal and child mortality rates through fiscal year 2027. Interventions supported by the program shall be for training and resource assistance for the following: (1) Prevention, recognition, diagnosis and treatment of obstetrical hemorrhage, and its complications. (2) Prevention, recognition, diagnosis and management of preeclampsia and other hypertensive, metabolic and cardiovascular disorders of pregnancy, and their complications, up to one-year postpartum. (3) Prevention, recognition, diagnosis and treatment of infections and their complications associated with ectopic pregnancy, normal pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. (4) Prevention, recognition, diagnosis and management of obstructed labor, including uterine rupture, obstetric fistulas, and their complications. (5) Reduction of fetal, perinatal, neonatal and infant mortality, including stillbirth, by preventing, recognizing, diagnosing and treating fetal distress, newborn asphyxia, birth trauma, premature birth, small size for gestational age, and neonatal infections and sepsis. (6) Nutritional and health education for the mother and provision of nutritional resources for the mother and child during the first 1,000 days of life, from conception to two years of age. (b) Implementation The Assistant Secretary shall prioritize the implementation of this program in collaboration with new and existing global health partnerships determined to be efficient and reliable in the expenditure of taxpayer dollars, prioritizing local faith-based providers and faith-based organizations with strong local partnerships and which have experience and expertise in maternal and child health delivery in resource-limited settings.