Our Mission:
Advance Research
Bringing together group antenatal care researchers working in low -and middle- income countries to share experiences and shape future research.
Group Antenatal Care
Group antenatal care is a model of care that brings together a health care provider, usually a midwife, and a group of women at the same gestational age to receive care.
Current Research
Research has been conducted in rural and urban populations in group care settings including hospitals, community health centers, and clinics and globally in each of the WHO-defined Regions and in many LMICs:
African : Benin, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zanzibar.
Americas: Brazil, Mexico, Suriname, and the United States
South-East Asian: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal
European: Belguim, Kosovo, Nethelands, UK
Eastern Mediterranean: Iran
Western Pacific: China, Samoa
The Group Antenatal Care Roadmap
Get Involved
The community of practice
The CoP is a place to share lessons learned, network and collaborate, and seek guidance related to both GANC research as well as programming and implementation. The primary focus is the adaptation and implementation of GANC in low middle-income countries (LMICs), but relevant lessons learned from those working in high income countries (HICs) are also welcome. We invite those with an emerging interest in GANC to join our Community of Practice.
The Global GANC Collaborative
The Collaborative brings together those involved in research aimed at developing the group care model for the provision of antenatal care in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The primary goal of the Collaborative is to support an open forum where researchers can learn, share, and build partnerships in this emerging field and inform an active research agenda and prioritization. Membership in the Collaborative is open to all research teams actively studying the effects and/or implementation of GANC.