Intervention co-design to reduce the impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT: Interventions are needed to reduce the impact of heat on the health and wellbeing of women and newborns in Burkina Faso where seasonal temperatures can be extremely high. In this article, we share our experience and lessons learned from co-designing an intervention to improve maternal and neonatal health, about heat in a rural and an urban district of Burkina Faso. We performed community engagement and a series of workshops with 49 community members (health workers, women group representatives, youth leaders, religious leaders, traditional leader, and mothers-in-law) and 36 implementers, stakeholders and professionals (officials from the Ministry of Health, midwives and related health workers, meteorologists, and environmental health practitioners). Following the discussions and group refl

SUBMITTER: Kadio K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12360171 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature