Members of CRIBS Global visited the British High Commission in Lusaka, Zambia recently and met with Dr Sarah Goldsmith, Regional Health Adviser, Africa Programmes and Expertise Department (APEX). The FCDO are funding an exciting new programme (CRADLE SMART) (Community empoweRment Approaches to Develop Local, Early Sustainable MAteRnity care with co-developed Technology), designed to strengthen early, […]
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At a CRIBS Global workshop for participants from Zambia, Sierra Leone and South Africa, the Global PrAKI Academy held a workshop on emergency peritoneal dialysis for pregnancy associated acute kidney injury (PrAKI). At the workshop, PrAKI co-founder Dr Katherine Clark, presented Professor Concepta Kwaleyela, President of the Midwives Association of Zambia with the Kidney Kind
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The CRIBS Global team recently convened in Zambia to launch CRADLE SMART (Community empoweRment Approaches to Develop Local, Early Sustainable MAteRnity care with co-developed Technology), an FCDO-funded programme designed to strengthen early, community-centred maternal and perinatal care. The programme is led in Zambia by Professor Bellington Vwalika as Principal Investigator, with Professor Andrew Shennan and Dr Kate Bramham as Chief Investigators,
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About Shock Index: The Shock Index (heart rate divided by systolic blood pressure) is a simple rapid measure of physiological compromise. Originally developed in emergency medicine, it is now emerging as a critical tool in maternal health, particularly in LMICs where resources are scarce but the burden of maternal mortality is highest. Severe bleeding after
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At a recent workshop held on 5 October in Cape Town, South Africa, maternal health experts, clinicians, and researchers from across the world — representing the UK, Zambia, Sierra Leone, India, Brazil, and South America — came together under the banner of the Papagaio project to chart a bold way forward in tackling one of
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The CRIBS Global team of doctors and midwives from Sierra Leone, Zambia, India, Brazil and the UK congregated in Cape Town during October to attend the FIGO Conference taking place there. CRIBS Global is a consortium coordinated by Kings that includes several ongoing and new projects. They include the current Papagaio NIHR global research group,
Dr Cristina Fernandez Turienzo, a nurse, midwife and senior research fellow at the Department of Women and Children’s Health, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, has received the prestigious FUDEN Nursing in Development Award 2025. The award was presented at a major gala in Madrid, Spain. FUDEN (Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Enfermería) is
She was just a teenager when she first knew fear, shame, and the sharp edge of a system that often turns its back on young mothers. Mangenda Kamara’s story begins in Sierra Leone, a country where adolescent pregnancy carries an outsized risk, and where one in ten pregnant teens in parts of Freetown was found
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A major new study published today in The Lancet Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Women’s Health highlights the success of a simple maternity innovation in improving the quality of care across Sierra Leone at scale — while underscoring the urgent need to strengthen health systems to save more lives. The CRADLE-5 trial, led by King’s College
The CRIBS- Global team created a phenomenal hive of activity and events across the globe to commemorate World Pre-eclampsia Day on Thursday 22nd May 2025. These included global webinars, seminars, marches, creative drama, creative competitions, testimonies from women who had pre-eclampsia, and talks by academics, doctors and midwives. In Sierra Leone there was student engagement with
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