Photo: USAID/Tanzania John Dunlop
A child health nurse consults with a mother at a
maternal Child Health Clinic in Iringa, Tanzania.
The coverage of women receivingIPT using the anti-malarial drugs during clinic visits increased from 29% in 2001 to 65% in 2003.
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Initiative
In 2001, USAID initiated a program to revise the national guidelines for treating malaria during pregnancy and to strengthen health services for pregnant women. Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID assisted in developing new guidelines and implementing them in three initial target regions in Tanzania -Arusha, Manyara, and Iringa.
The program uses focused antenatal care (FANC), a comprehensive care approach
for pregnant women that provides intermittent presumptive treatment (IPT) services in early detection and management of diseases such as malaria, and counseling on health promotion, birth initial three target regions. In just under two preparedness, complication readiness, and years, the guidelines have been adopted individualized birth planning.
The new guidelines include the practice of using anti-malarial drugs that prevent and control the effects of malaria on mothers and their unborn children. This approach is helping to ensure that more women are protected from contracting the disease during pregnancy.
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