Aastrika Outreach Programmes

Creating demand for high quality care

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Advocacy Efforts

Advocating for high-quality, respectful maternity care through innovative outreach efforts, including conference stalls, media interviews, podcasts, and social media campaigns.

Our Focus

The need for capacity building and continuous professional development of healthcare workers

The rights of childbearing women (including privacy, informed consent, and freedom from physical or verbal abuse)

The harms of over treatment prevalence of needlessly high caesarean rates

Our Awareness and Advocacy Initiatives

  • Thought leadership and presentations
  • Interviews in the media
  • Social media and digital campaigns
  • Events and conferences on healthcare
  • Grants to community organisations

We Advocate

Innovative learning tools to enhance knowledge and skills

Evidence-based practice and adhering to international standards

Professional midwifery as a scientific practice

Voices of Change

Voices of Change: Best Practices in Birthing

This initiative highlights obstetricians and gynaecologists who promote positive birthing experiences through impactful practices, inspiring others with their stories. It also honors their contributions, celebrating their role in advancing Respectful Maternity Care.

Aastrika Foundation at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting in New Delhi (2025)

Did you know?

“Both WRA India and Aastrika Foundation believe that respectful maternity care (RMC) is a universal human right for all childbearing women and their newborns,”
-Dr. Aparajita Gogoi