BACKGROUND An estimated 23 million infants are still not being benefitted from routine immunization services. We assessed how many children failed to be fully immunized even though they or their mothers were in contact with health services to receive other interventions. DESIGN Fourteen countries with Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys carried out after 2000...

OBJECTIVE Maternal and child health (MCH) care may provide an entry point for HIV services in high HIV-prevalence settings. Our objective was to assess integration of HIV with MCH services in public sector facilities in Swaziland. DESIGN In 2009, 2010 and 2012, client flow assessments (CFAs) were conducted over 5 days in the MCH units of eight government facilities, purposively selected as in...

Despite sincere efforts by the government and private sector, maternal health outcomes in Bangladesh are not satisfactory. The current maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is 194 per 100,000 live births, which must be reduced to 143 by 2015 to attain the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 (NIPORT, MEASURE Evaluation & ICDDR,B, 2011). More worryingly is the low utilization of maternal health services...

The Visits of pregnant women are one the important indicators for during pregnancy. Regular ANC visits can detect early complications pregnancy, so they be treated early. Husband's knowledge and husband’s support regular visits, even Covid-19 pandemic, is very to encourage regularly attend visits. purpose this study was determine relationship between husband's by pandemic. design used an analyt...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality remains a major challenge to health systems worldwide. Although most pregnancies and births are uneventful, approximately 15% of all pregnant women develop potentially life-threatening complications. Home delivery in this context can be acutely threatening, particularly in developing countries where emergency care and transportation are less available. This study i...

BACKGROUND Despite the efforts to reduce iron deficiency during pregnancy, information on the coverage and factors associated with utilization of iron supplements is lacking. The study is intended to assess the coverage, compliance and factors associated with the use of prenatal iron supplements in eight rural districts of Ethiopia. METHODS The study comprised two independent surveys conducte...

The Government of Malawi has signed contracts called service level agreements (SLAs) with mission health facilities in order to exempt their catchment populations from paying user fees. Government in turn reimburses the facilities for the services that they provide. SLAs started in 2006 with 28 out of 165 mission health facilities and increased to 74 in 2015. Most SLAs cover only maternal, neon...

The high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in Indonesia proves that the quality of various government programs an effort to reduce MMR is not optimal, one which antenatal care (ANC). ANC service implementation can be assessed from achievement K4 visit. purpose this research was determine factors related visit at Public Health Center’s ofKatomaliga Beteleme, Lembo Sub-District, North Morowali Distri...

BACKGROUND Early initiation of antenatal care visits is an essential component of services to improving maternal and new born health. The Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2011 indicated that only 11% of pregnant women start antenatal care in the first trimester. However, detailed study to identify factors associated with late initiation of care has not been conducted in Addi...

To identify points of dropout on the pathway from offering HIV testing to maintenance on antiretroviral therapy (ART), following the introduction of the Option B+ policy for pregnant women in Malawi (lifelong ART for HIV-positive mothers and 6 weeks nevirapine for the infants), a retrospective cohort study within a demographic surveillance system in northern Malawi. Women living in the demograp...