Reproductive Health Uganda Mbale branch is organizing a stakeholder’s review meeting on 26th September 2011 to share the achievements, lessons learnt and challenges experienced from a project supporting vulnerable people, particularly in light of the global economic downturn.
The project that is being funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) aims at improving the sexual, reproductive, maternal and newborn health of vulnerable people, with special emphasis on the health of women in need, youth and children.
According to Silver Ochieno, the Reproductive Health Uganda Mbale branch manager, this project’s major goal is to see how to reduce infant mortality, maternal mortality and to control of the spread of HIV infections from mothers to child and among adults.
Information from the health center indicates that maternal deaths occur in three out of every 100 deliveries in most government aided hospitals, while infant mortality is at five out of every 100 births.
Ochieno says that some of the intervention areas has been the promotion of maternal and child health through improving health practices, enhancing frontline workers skills, capacity building of health workers on the job, and strengthening and increasing service delivery to ensure that the poorest mothers and their infants survive and remain healthy.
Increasing access to anti retroviral drugs (ARVs), treatment and strengthening of prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) are some of the areas that will be reviewed in the meeting.