ethiopia
Women and Children First Programmes Manager Annemijn Sondaal with stakeholders in Ethiopia, working together to adapt the community health group approach through the health system.
Women and Children First is supporting the Ethiopian government to establish community health groups.
These life-saving groups will support pregnant women and their children through their maternity journey. They will be implemented and managed through the Ethiopian government’s community health system.
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A community health group meet to discuss sexual and reproductive health issues, led by an MSI family planning promoter (Source: MSI Reproductive Choices)
Over 1,100 women in Amhara, Ethiopia worked together to improve their sexual and reproductive health. This is thanks to the pilot of community health groups focussed on these issues, run in partnership with MSI Reproductive Choices.
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A community health group meets to discuss family planning and sexual and reproductive health issues in Amhara, Ethiopia
1 in 5 women in rural Ethiopia are unable to get the contraception they need.
Women and Children First, working with MSI Reproductive Choices, are testing the use of community health groups. These are adapted to improve uptake of family planning and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in the Amhara region.
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A women’s health group comes together to discuss ways of overcoming maternal and newborn health problems
Thanks to our partners and amazing supporters, more women, children and young people are getting crucial support from community health groups and our other pivotal projects.
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A member of the Health Development Army demonstrates how the calendars work. They are given to pregnant women to keep track of their antenatal and postnatal care appointments, as well as the dates of their baby’s vaccinations
Women and Children First has successfully completed the first test of its personalised health appointment calendar system in Goro Woreda, Ethiopia. 839 pregnant women benefitted from the innovative scheme, resulting in an increase in women attending antenatal care appointments and being supported through childbirth by a skilled birth attendant.
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Rahmat, with the calendar of the wall on her home. There are stickers on the calendar informing her of the dates of her baby’s vaccinations.
In rural Ethiopia only 17% of women can attend antenatal care in the first trimester, a crucial stage in the baby’s development and to identify risks for the mother.
Many women in rural or poor communities have no access to mobile technology and struggle to access vital information around maternity and newborn healthcare.
New mothers struggle to keep track of all the recommended perinatal appointments they should attend.
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A loving mother holds her newborn baby in her arm
More women, children and young people are benefitting from the support of the women’s health groups and projects established by Women and Children First, thanks to our partners and wonderful supporters.
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A mother with her baby in Ethiopia
The impact of coronavirus on pregnant women and mothers with small babies in Uganda and Ethiopia has been revealed. 30% have declared they have reduced their use of maternal and newborn health services since the outbreak began.
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24-year-old mother Chaltu, with her newborn baby boy
Chaltu is a 24-year-old woman living in the Goro Woreda, Ethiopia. She suffered the distress of losing her baby boy in childbirth at home. Thanks to the women’s health groups, when it came to her next pregnancy, she had a safe delivery at her nearest health centre. She also received important information to help her and her family.
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An Ethiopian mother and her baby (Photo: Corrie Wingate)
Thanks to our supporters, more pregnant women are having safe, healthy deliveries. In the Goro Woreda, Ethiopia, deliveries by skilled birth attendants are up to 77%, compared to the 2017 national average of 28%.
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