Maternal Health

Approximately 10 million children under the ages of 5 and 500,000 women die each year from preventable diseases and childbirth-related causes. Millions more suffer marginalised health conditions that leave them vulnerable to recurring diseases, and lock them into a poverty cycle.

This mortality and morbidity is a function of poverty, where the poorest 20% of the world’s population have a 10 times greater chance of dying before they reach the age of 14 than the richest 20%. The current maternal mortality ratio in Uganda is 336 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Infant mortality is 43 deaths per 1000 live births, with 42% of the mortality occurring during the neonatal period.

ELOI believes that good health will bring hope, dignity to men, women and children as a fundamental element of children’s well being. Our emphasis is thus on community-level work, and on partnering with the communities themselves, local government providers to assure that basic health needs are met. Our main objective is that communities and families are able to prevent poor health, and advocate for the services that they deserve.

Objectives

Our objectives in Maternal Health Care focus on the reduction of maternal, perinatal, infant and childhood mortality and morbidity and the promotion of reproductive health and the physical and psychosocial development of the child and adolescent within the family.

Child survival
Promoting reproductive health or safe motherhood
Ensure birth of healthy child
Protect and project physical growth and psycho-social development of children
Promote and protect health of mothers
Regulate fertility so as to have wanted and healthy children when desired
Prevent malnutrition
Prevent communicable diseases
Reducing maternal (current status-2013:190 per live births), Perinatal (number of stillbirths and deaths in the first week of life per 1000 live births) infant (current status-2013: 41 per one thousand live births) and child mortality and morbidity rates.

Activities

Improving Postnatal Care for Newborns in Community.
Counseling of both teenage and elderly mothers
Providing enhanced health care packages through immunization, iron and folic acid supplements, vitamin provisions.
Participate in innovative partnerships like with Vitamin Angels to enhance maternal health
Capacity building on health workers on how to handle maternal health especially the youth. Training to the workers in effective supervision of the implementers as well as improve effective communication from staff.
Health talks on effects of pregnancy termination through interactive safe spaces with medical workers, peers.
A cadre of staff or volunteers who identify women in early months of pregnancy, and visit their houses as per the schedule of timed behavior Change Communication.
Improve women’s nutritional status through food fortification, feeding programs
Improve effective communication from staff hence empowering women to obtain better health care, education and social services.
Improve staff professionalism, empathy, and kindnesses for the healthy workers through periodic capacity building ventures.
Routine care for newborn immediately after birth to reduce mortality rate
Increase social support and information through awareness within the community. This is also to encourage men get involved in the pregnancy stage.
Routine postnatal care for mother and newborn during antenatal and after birth
Referral follow up a per-established plan that can be implemented without delay on women with complications avoid still birthday.
Sexual reproductive health training during antenatal and after birth.
To encourage exclusive breastfeeding among mother for the first 6 months of life.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Reduction in maternal mortality rate

Stopped preventable maternal deaths by making sure women can access care at every stage—before, during, and after her pregnancy as most of them are now committed to antenna.
Mobilized communities to identify danger signs in pregnancy—like post-partum hemorrhage—and activate transport systems, so women can reach facilities in time to save their lives.
Make sure every woman has access to the information and health care—from her home to the health facility—to safely deliver her baby and care for herself and her children.
Through immunization many children are healthy with a reduction in malnutrition.
Reduced still birth as women have access to all the antenna services before and during birth.
Men are involved during the antenna throughout the delivery time thus reducing the mortality in children.

Women empowered in terms of health

Train providers on current standards and guidelines of care so they can counsel women throughout pregnancy and childbirth with dignity and respect.
Prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child by testing and counseling, identifying and supporting pregnant women who are HIV-positive.
Women and volunteer workers have formed groups (safe space) where they share both health and social challenges to reduce mother to baby risk resulting from ignorance and anti-social behavior.
Make sure every woman has access to the information and health care—from her home to the health facility—to safely deliver her baby and care for herself and her children.
Created knowledge and awareness of the women’s health rights in regards to health worker-patient sexual harassment, disrespect, and harsh tone, segregation in sex, age and race.

Empowered health workers and administration

Confidentiality and respect valued and practiced through capacity building
Health workers are now more focused and understand the needs of the community in relation to health.
Service delivery quality improved as many teenage mothers are involved, fathers in access to health care.
Proper sanitation and hygiene are practiced in health centers to prevent mother to baby infection or public infections in places of convenience.

Our Mission

To bring dignity and hope to men, women and children in African communities through health care, education, access to justice and community re-integration.

Our Vision

Hope for an African Child, the ability to restore the rights and position of an African Child.

Education

Health

Access to Justice

Sustainable Access to Justice for the unfairly imprisoned persons in Uganda. Our primary objective is to access justice for the prisoners with the aim of improving their wellbeing.

Community Re-integration

We aim to address issues like reintegration, especially social stigma arising from negative attitudes and stereotypes towards former inmates and the reduce discriminating.

Buwenge Hospital

The institution is set up to provide quality health services: preventive, curative and health promotive such as counseling services with an aim of improving the quality of health in the community in Jinja district.

Women Empowerment

Interventions geared to improve the position of women in society and to enable them become financially independent have been employed to tackle the issue of gender discrimination.

ELOI Junior School Project

Maternal Health

Objectives

Activities

Monitoring & Evaluation

Reduction in maternal mortality rate

Women empowered in terms of health

Empowered health workers and administration

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