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USAID’s Project Launches its Safe Motherhood, Newborn Care, and Family
Planning Strategy in Tajikistan
ZdravPlus began implementation of the strategy by initiating two Safe Motherhood pilots (one urban and another rural) in the Maternity Ward of the City Medical Center of Dushanbe and Maternity Ward of the Yavan Central District Hospital. The pilots, as well as the strategy, will assist the Ministry of Health of Tajikistan in establishing and providing quality services in accordance with WHO standards of evidence-based medicine to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. The improvement of the quality of the obstetric and neonatal care and reduction of maternal and child death are identified as priority directions for Tajikistan by the Millennium Development Goals.
To open the pilots, 37 doctors and nurses from the two medical facilities attended a Safe Motherhood training based on WHO Effective Perinatal Care materials. Obstetricians and gynecologists, midwives, neonatologists, and neonatology nurses learned to apply evidence-based safe motherhood practices at the Dushanbe City Medical Center, also supported by USAID. ZdravPlus goals include an increased percentage of women who accept a method of family planning post-abortion or postpartum, and a decreased percentage of pregnant women and newborns who receive unnecessary, and potentially harmful, screening and diagnostic procedures, medications, and hospitalizations. ZdravPlus is a comprehensive health reform project, implemented by a consortium of partners led by Abt Associates.
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Health specialists in the two USAID’s safe motherhood pilots will be providing quality obstetric and neonatal care to Tajik mothers and children
Photo Credit: ZdravPlus |
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