Support life change to babies born in rural areas

Dear Friend,

Thank you for your generous gift to Charitable Incorporated Community Organization Uganda. We are thrilled to have your support. Through your donations we have been able to save 17 new babies born in vulnerable rural communities within the past 09month of the year 2023. You truly make the difference for us, and we are extremely grateful!

Today we celebrate what your donation has done to the lives of the children. If you have specific questions about how your gift is being used or our organization as whole, please don’t hesitate to contact our organization team through cicouganda940@gmail.com.

Thank you for your financial support to Support life change to babies born in rural areas in the months of July and September, 2022. It really came as a blessing to our organization.

Thank you for donating your hard-earned money to us. We are amazed by what a big-hearted person you are and how much you care about others.

Your donation is really important to us, and we are forever grateful for it.

Thank you!

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Objectives: To explore whether community health worker household-based maternal health visits improve antenatal care and skilled birth attendance among hard-to-reach rural areas in Uganda.

Methods: This quasi-experimental 18-month prospective study involved 486 consenting women aged 15–49 years, who were pregnant or had a pregnancy outcome in the past 6 months, from 6 island fishing communities. The community health worker household-based intervention (community health workers’ household visits to provide counseling, blood pressure measurement, anemia, and HIV testing) involved 243 women from three fishing communities. Random effects logistic regression was used to determine the association between the community health worker intervention and antenatal care and skilled birth attendance among women who had at least 5 months of pregnancy or childbirth at follow-up.

Results: Almost all women accepted the community health worker intervention (90.9% (221/243)). Hypertension was at 12.5% (27/216) among those who accepted blood pressure measurements, a third (33.3% (9/27)) were pregnant. HIV prevalence was 23.5% (52/221). Over a third (34.2% (69/202)) of women tested had anemia (hemoglobin levels less than 11 g/dL). The community health worker intervention was associated with attendance of first antenatal care visit within 20 weeks of pregnancy (adjusted odd ratio = 2.1 (95% confidence interval 0.6–7.6)), attendance of at least four antenatal care visits (adjusted odd ratio = 0.9 (95% confidence interval 0.4–2.0)), and skilled birth attendance (adjusted odd ratio = 0.5 (95% confidence interval 0.1–1.5)), though not statistically significant.

Conclusion: Community health workers have a crucial role in improving early antenatal care attendance, early community-based diagnosis of anemia, hypertensive disorders, and HIV among women in these hard-to-reach rural communities.