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Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an essential cadre needed to reach mothers and newborns in low resource settings. One of the challenges for building capacity…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: Evidence supports community health worker (CHW) capacity to improve maternal and newborn health in less-resourced countries. However, scaling up and operating…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Financial barriers to health such as the introduction of user fees at the point of care result in decreased utilization of curative services of as much as 55%.  This…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: The Government of Uganda committed to ensuring that by 2015 all sub-county and county health centers will provide basic emergency obstetric and newborn care…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: To prevent PPH, uterotonic must be given immediately after birth. This is the same period where attention to newborn breathing is essential. Helping Babies…

Presentation at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference, October 19, 2015 Background: In addressing maternal and newborn mortality, a lot of initiatives have been put in place to encourage women access quality health services from the health…

Esiru Godfrey of the Ministry of Health, Uganda, presented at the Maternal Health, HIV & AIDS technical meeting on research gaps in utilization of services for PMTCT in Uganda. View a video of the presentation>>

This advocacy poster lists seven recommendations related to preventing obstetric Fistula.