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Midwife Nancy Tibejuba’s baptism of fire into midwifery came in early 2017, hardly two months after transiting from a small private clinic into a hospital setting, writes Kakaire Ayub Kirunda. But just a little over a month after being employed at St Francis Hospital Buluba in Mayuge District in Eastern...
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In recent years, Uganda has implemented policies in line with Sustainable Development Goal 3.8.1:improving coverage of essential maternal and neonatal health services without imposing untenable costs on families. Some tangible interventions to implement such policies include: Dispensing Maama kits: These kits contain all supplies necessary for routine clean and safe deliveries,...
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This piece was originally published on Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Newborns and Child Health. My daily work involves moving around six hospitals in East-central Uganda implementing data strengthening interventions to increase capture and quantifying maternal and newborn indicators. Critical to my work is capturing data on babies...
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There must be excitement in the country. The preliminary results of the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) 2016 were released March 14. Bits of good news, some not so good news, and bad news for maternal, newborn and child health in the country. As shown in the table below,...
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Loss to follow-up (LTFU) has been widely known to be a problem of clinical settings most especially in HIV/AIDS interventions such as Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission and other related treatment programmes. However it is also becoming a serious concern in maternal and newborn healthcare (MNH). Reducing maternal and...
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