Maternal and Child Health
Teso Safe Motherhood ensures that no woman, fetus, or baby should die or be harmed by pregnancy or childbirth through a focus on improving quality and linkages in the six pillars of Safe Motherhood.
- Family Planning
- Ante-Natal Care
- Obstetric Care
- Postnatal Care
- Post-Abortion Care
- STD-HIV Control
Our focus in the MCH and SRH
- Equity and health Education for women;
- Primary Health Care, and
- Communication for Behavior
- Case
- Health promotional
- Strengthening the Referral pathways.
Our activities of focus in MCH services
- Creating awareness and home management of delivery complications, Neonatal Care, and Childhood Illnesses.
- Creating awareness of risks of unskilled child delivery and its complications.
- Providing home management of delivery complications, neonatal care and childhood illness. In accordance with national or international approved guidelines.
- Community-based antenatal care services and referrals’
- Community-based skilling and training of community health workers for improved ANC and delivery.
- Community-Based care to increase the demand for services—empowering communities through Interpersonal communication agent (IPC).
- Train and deploy the community health worker to support and provide IP1 and IP2 during community ANC.
- Improve referral pathways through deploying the boda-boda ambassadors and referral facilitators and the community health workers
- Increased skilling of birth attendants (skills update and on-job mentorships and exchange visits)
- Facilitating timely access to emergency obstetric and new-born care at times of complications and by facilitating the referral from the community to the referral sites.
- Increased access to contraception/ through community-based approaches like community-based drug distribution and user training to self-administer and expand method mix and provider training.
- Improve adolescent and young women clinic services and increased targeting for teenage mothers.
- Critical support for the supply chain, by providing timely transportation of drugs and medical consumables.
- Improve laboratory services and diagnostic services, by providing mentorship and on job training for the staff and timely supply for supplies needed.
- Establish E- Referral systems for follow-ups and monitor the performance of each community agent.