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Maternal Care Accessin Sudan
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
GFMER Sudan 2012Forum No: ( 1 )
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Name of presenterName Position Institution
Sawsan Mustafa Abdalla Associated Professor National Ribat University
Name Position Institution
Sawsan Mustafa Abdalla Associated Professor National Ribat University
Asharaf Ahmed
Name of contributors
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Content of the presentation
Background
RH services current status
National monitoring indicators
Health status
Safe motherhood: A human right yet to be fulfilled
Previous studies
References
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Maternal Care Access
The International Conference on Population and Development, drawing on the WHO definition of health, defined reproductive health as a ‘state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes’(1).
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Reproductive health
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Maternal Care Access
The availability of good quality reproductive health (RH) services is a vital social and
economic investment.
provision of efficient, equitable and quality reproductive and sexual health services will go a long way in improving the health of the population.
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Maternal Care Access
the national policy of RH Stated that: shall provide maternity and child care and medical care for pregnant women’.
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Maternal Care Access
The policy document provides direction to Sudan national health system setting an agenda for reforms assuring the reproductive health services are available not only throughout a woman’s life-cycle but ensuring her the right to survive pregnancy and childbirth and enjoy a good family life
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Maternal Care Access
Maternal mortality figures for Sudan are one of the highest in the world. On average, according to Sudan Household Health Survey (2006), every day about forty women die due to causes associated with birth
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Maternal Care Access
While in certain parts of country, situation could even be worse, these figures might only be a tip of the iceberg due to underreported maternal deaths and or incorrectly attributed and classified as cause. High maternal mortality is also an indication of high infant mortality
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National monitoring indicators
• % pregnant women who have at least one antenatal visit 94.8%
• % of pregnant women who have a trained attendant at delivery 89%
• % of pregnant women immunized against tetanus 74%
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National monitoring indicators
Contraceptive prevalence rate 20%
% of infants weighing less than 2500 g at birth
prevalence of female genital mutilation 70.3%
Maternal mortality ratio 1107/100.000
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Health status
-Sudan is lagging behind the target for achieving MDGs, particularly for the health
related MDGs.
-The national maternal mortality ratio averages 1,107 deaths per 100,000 live births with wide interstate variations
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Health status
The infant mortality rate is estimate at 81 per 1000 live births and about half of these are neonatal deaths (41/1000 live birth)
occurring during the first month of life (SHHS, 2006).
Under 5 mortality is 105 and 126 per 1,000 live births in north and south respectively, while comparable figures for infant mortality are 70 and 89.
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Health status
Sudan has three layers of care provision.At the apex of pyramid are the teaching, general
and specialist hospitals rendering secondary and tertiary care
For primary care, the rural hospitals are first referral care with indoor and diagnostic facilities.
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Health status
Primary care is provided through a variety of outlets:
PHC unit:- staffed by a community health worker. dressing station:-staffed by a trained nurse or
experienced community health worker. Dispensary:-staffed by a medical assistant and a nurse, and
provide PHC services.
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Health status
The health centers:- which are referral for primary health care facilitiesstaffed by two medical officers, and paramedics,
i.e. medical assistant, health visitor, nutrition instructor and vaccinator
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Health status
45-65% of population has access to PHC services, i.e. on average, 1 facility serves
12,000 people.
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Health status
The policy supports comprehensive reproductive health care which is accessible, affordable, appropriate, efficient and effective; and for that purpose, it can be delivered through
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The Reproductive Health PackageSafe motherhood services family planningharmful practices unwanted pregnancyunsafe abortion reproductive tract infections including sexually
transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS gender-based violence infertility reproductive tract cancersViolence against women Women empowerment
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Health status
it can be delivered through:Integration of reproductive health services with
mainstream primary health care
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The neglected tragedy of maternal mortality
Safe motherhood: A human right yet to be fulfilled
• “When reporting on the right to life protected by article 6, States Parties should provide data on …..pregnancy and childbirth-related deaths of women……..”
UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment 28 (2000): Equality of rights between Men and Women (Article 3). 10
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Safe motherhood: A human right yet to be fulfilled
• Mothers have a right to life
• Maternity is not a disease
• Motherhood can be made safer
• Millions of women are denied exits from the maternal death road
• A question of how much a woman’s life is considered worth
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Motherhood can be made safer
The interventions that make motherhoodsafe are known and the resources needed areobtainable. The necessary Services are neither sophisticated nor very expensive, and reducing maternal mortality is one of themost cost-effective strategies available in the area of public health.
Message from WHO Director-General, World Health Day, 1998
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Previous study
• A cross-sectional community-based study was carried out in Kassala, eastern Sudan.
• The aim of this study was to investigate coverage of antenatal care and identify factors associated with inadequacy of antenatal care in Kassala, eastern Sudan
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Previous study
811(90%) women had at least one visit. Only 11% of the investigated women had ≥ four antenatal visits, while 10.0% had not attended at all. Out of 811 women who attended at least one visit, 483 (59.6%), 303 (37.4%) and 25 (3.1%) women attended antenatal care in the first, second and third trimester, respectively.
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Previous study
Antenatal care showed a low coverage in Kassala, eastern Sudan. This low coverage was associated with high parity and low husband education.
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References
1-Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD), New York, United Nations,
1994
2-National health policy, Sudan 2007
3-UNDP, MDGs in Sudan, http://www.sd.undp.org/mdg_sudan.htm accessed on 27
March, 2010
4-Federal Ministry of Health (2007), Annual Health Statistical Report, 2007, National
Health Information Centre, Federal Ministry of Health Khartoum
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