Emergency Obstetric Care -- Checklist for Planners
Emergency obstetric care is the cornerstone of UNFPA's efforts to improve pregnancy outcomes. This six-panel checklist is designed to help programme planners and managers monitor elements that are critical to
providing a high quality of emergency obstetric care.
Year of publication: 2003
Making Safe Motherhood a Reality in West Africa
Using Indicators to Programme for Results
For too long, efforts to reduce maternal mortality stalled, in part because the facts underlying the problem --and the best strategies to address it --were poorly understood. This report documents UNFPA's
efforts to address maternal mortality using a strategic and practical evidence-based approach in a region where data has been scarce,and where too many women have died. Increasing access to emergency obstetric care is central to this approach.
Year of publication: 2003
Maternal Mortality Update 2002
A Focus on Emergency Obstetric Care
Every minute a woman dies from lack of life-saving emergency obstetric care. Addressing this need is the centrepiece of UNFPA's efforts to make motherhood safer. The new Maternal Mortality Update explains the critical importance of timely medical interventions hen complications develop -- as they do in more than 5 per cent of all deliveries. It also
documents UNFPA's efforts to reduce maternal mortality throughout the developing
world.
UNFPA partnered with EngenderHealth to conduct a first-ever study on the
occurrence of fistula in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Chad,
Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). The report
offers a glimpse of the issue as seen through the eyes of clients who seek
services and
professional health workers in 35 hospitals where fistula is treated. It
highlights the urgent need for equipment, skilled medical staff and surgical
supplies in order to meet the high demand for care.
Published by The Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group
The Guide lists and describes a range of available materials and resources that can be used to design safe motherhood interventions at the local and national levels. The goal of the Guide is to ensure that individuals and organizations responsible for supporting, designing and implementing safe motherhood programs in developing countries know about the most effective and cost-effective strategies, and know how to access existing resources that can help them carry out these strategies.
ADDRESSING OBSTETRIC FISTULAS - RESPONDING TO EMERGENCY SITUATIONS - PREVENTING HIV/AIDS - PROVIDING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ESSENTIALS - LINKING ENVIRONMENT, WOMEN, AND POPULATION
Year of publication: 2002
Other Reports and Documents
Reduction of Maternal Mortality
A Joint WHO/UNFPA/UNICEF/World Bank Statement
This joint statement represents a consensus between WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, and the World Bank and is an example of the common purpose and complementarity of programmes
supported by the four agencies and designed to reduce and prevent maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. The principles and policies of each agency are governed by the
relevant decisions of its governing body and each agency implements the interventions described in this document in accordance with these principles and policies and within the
scope of its mandate. The statement draws on lessons learned and knowledge gained by countries worldwide in their efforts to reduce and prevent maternal and neonatal deaths, identifies the issues involved in selecting appropriate interventions, and builds a consensual approach to addressing the problem effectively.
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