Janma Clean Birth Kit

Target Regions

Africa, Caribbean, Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia

Target SDGs

Market Suggested Retail Price

$5.00

Target Users (Target Impact Group)

Community, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Distributors / Implementing Organizations

AYZH

Competitive Landscape

Direct competitors include PATH Safe Delivery Kit.

Manufacturing/Building Method

The kit components are mass produced, packed and distributed by local women.

Intellectural Property Type

Trademarked

User Provision Model

Janma Kits can be purchased from medical institutions (hospital pharmacies, health care centers, and slum clinics), which resell ayzh products to women, and non-profit aid organizations (working to improve the health and wellbeing of women and families in developing countries), which supply the kits to women and midwives. Additionally, the Janma Kit can be donated to communities via the Kopernik marketplace.

Distributions to Date Status

AYZH has sold more than 50,000 kits in India, Haiti, Laos, Afghanistan, and Africa.

Design Specifications

The Janma kit contains simple tools recommended by the World Health Organization to provide sanitation and sterility at the time of childbirth. Kit components include: Underpad , Surgical scalpel blade (Gamma radiated), Cord clamp (ETO sterile), Bar of soap, Baby Wiping Cloth, Instruction sheet , Jute purse packaging.

Product Schematics

Technical Support

Designed for use by health care service providers. Pictorial instructions provided with every kit. An online animated movie available (CD can be shipped on request at a minimal fee). No additional training should be required. Supplemental mobile education program available.

Replacement Components

Sold as a kit only, not by individual components.

Lifecycle

Shelf Life 18 months to Two Years. One time use.

Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters

Janma provides the 'six cleans' (clean hands, clean perineum, clean delivery surface, clean cord cutting and tying instruments, and clean cutting surface), (as specified by WHO) and prevents infections, mortality, and morbidity at the time of childbirth.

Vetted Performance Status

No vetted performance data identified. However, the kit components are recommended by the World Health Organization to provide sanitation and sterility at the time of childbirth.

Safety

Sterility needs to be maintained and hence need to store it as a package and not open components until need to be used.

Complementary Technical Systems

Unknown

Academic Research and References

Compliance with regulations

Janma manufacturers cite the the 'six cleans' (clean hands, clean perineum, clean delivery surface, clean cord cutting and tying instruments, and clean cutting surface), as specified by WHO's sanitation and sterility at the time of childbirth.

Evaluation methods

Field trials

Other Information

In 2011 the JANMA: Clean Birth Kit was chosen as one of the 61 global products designed to improve life by the INDEX Awards.