Uganda’s maternal mortality has moderately declined from 670 per 100,000 live births in
1990 to 430 per 100,000 live births in 2008. This annual decline of 13 maternal deaths per
100,000 live births is unlikely to achieve the MDG target of 168 per 100,000 live birthsby
2015. The proportion of pregnant ...
This brief is a contribution to deliberations aiming at fostering the use of antenatal care (ANC)
services by pregnant women in order to reach the optimum recommended by WHO (e.g., four
prenatal visits, one per quarter including one just before delivery) within the framework of the
Campaign for the Accel...
The number of health workers in Mozambique is insufficient to enable the achievement of the
country‟s population health goals. This problem is compounded by the uneven distribution of
health care works by province and by area of residence, and by a weak and under-resourced
national health system which ...
En RCA, il est globalement ressorti des différents rapports de suivi des indicateurs
des OMD que les progrès sont les plus lents en ce qui concerne l’OMD1 (Eradiquer
l’extrême pauvreté et la faim), l´OMD 4 (Réduire la mortalité des enfants de moins de 5
ans), l’OMD 5 (Améliorer la santé ma...
Health costs are spiralling out of control all over the world in context of global financial crisis while some countries are still struggling to offer basic health services. The health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is most often unfunded, including the health workforce, which represents the single largest...
Issued by an international group of experts in health and private sector, this report stresses the importance of the private sector in responding to the HRH crisis and the need for further health workforce innovation, that increased the supply, improved the effectiveness of health workers.Recommendations...
La présente note d’information stratégique vise à éclairer les parties concernées par la
faible adhésion des citoyens aux divers systèmes d’assurance maladie sur le marché
camerounais et propose trois options visant à améliorer l’accès équitable aux services
et soins de santé. Le syst...
Cette note de politique a été élaborée par l’équipe pays du projet « Soutenir l’utilisation
des bases factuelles issues de la recherche (SURE) dans les politiques de santé en
Afrique ». Elle porte sur les stratégies de viabilisation de l’assurance maladie universelle
au Burkina Faso.
Les f...
This paper sought to determine the safety and feasibility of home-based prophylaxis of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) with misoprostol, including assessment of the need for referrals and additional interventions. In rural Tigray, Ethiopia, traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in intervention areas were train...
Sudan health system is based on the district health system approach, which emphasizes
the principles of primary health care (PHC). Nevertheless, the decentralization of the
public sector resulted in more deterioration of the PHC system particularly in rural and
peripheral areas due to lack of financial r...
