Promotion of grassroots engagement to reduce maternal and infant Morbidity and mortality promotes village health care team especially the Traditional Birth Referral Assistants (TRBAs) to reduce MCH morbidity/mortality in Aswa County, District in Gulu. The project aims at training local TRBAs to identify, counsel and provide reproductive health education to pregnant mothers to seek medical care and delivery at the facility under the care of a skilled health care provider.
In 2010 Ugandan government stopped the use of the Traditional Birth Attendant (TBAs) to conduct deliveries because of not being able to detect and handle obstetric complications and changed their roles as traditional birth referral assistants (TRBAs) whose roles are to promote reproductive health education, detect labour and escort mothers to health facility to be served by skilled health care provider. Skilled delivery in the country is very low at 60% and much lower in the northern Uganda.
This project therefore seeks to increase skilled facility delivery by training TBRAs on maternal reproductive health education and through them engage men on promotion of health seeking practices and enhance community participation in maternal health care.
This project will train 57 Traditional Referral Birth Assistants who will in their respective communities identify and educate pregnant mothers and their spouses to seek medical care and escort them to the facility when in labor therefore promoting reduction in maternal and infant mortality and morbidity in the region.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
