Starting a Successful Ante-natal Program

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Cathy Hoelzer

Cathy Hoelzer

Nov 2, 2011

Many women in the developing world suffer from a dearth of antenatal health care. This is due to many factors such as including lack of qualified, trained medical cadre, women’s health illiteracy, and harmful cultural practices. As a result many women have increased morbidity and mortality related to pregnancy. Along with this there is often high infant mortality rates as well. Setting up a culturally relevant and attractive antenatal program can be a challenge. The speaker will share from her personal experiences in Southern Sudan on how one such program was started in an area where nearly 99% of the women birthed at home and never received any antenatal care prior to this program.

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