Meshack Acholla

Meshack Acholla is a communications professional working in the field of maternal and newborn health. He brings out powerful stories that aim to catalyse action amongst governments to prioritise health care for women and children. He is the communications manager for Evidence for Action (E4A)-MamaYe project at Options Consultancy Ltd., based in Kenya.

A woman walks past a graffiti promoting the fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 22, 2020. This is a striking photo of a woman in a blue dress wearing a facemask walking past a peach-colored wall with a graffiti of the Earth, also wearing a facemask, with bloodshot eyes and crying. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
Gender

Falling Through the Cracks: COVID-19 and the Rise of Maternal Deaths in Africa

by Marleen Vellekoop, Meshack Acholla, Julia Hanne

Africa’s unified pandemic response has saved lives, but reduced access to routine services puts women’s health in danger