tailieunhanh - Consultation on Improving Access to Health Worker at the Frontline for Better Maternal and Child Survival

Dr Møgedal reminded the Consultation participants that the challenges of maternal and child mortality were not new, and alluded to the ups and downs of Village Health Workers, the universal child immunization and various approaches to management of childhood diseases. She also the obstacles through which some of the health services had to struggle to ensure access, in terms of quantity, continuity, reach and service quality. The struggle, Dr Møgedal emphasised, was where the health worker was often not available where needed, and if available had too heavy a workload, with hardly any tools of the trade | Consultation on Improving Access to Health Worker at the Frontline for Better Maternal and Child Survival REPORT Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi Kenya 25-27 June 2012 global nearth workforce alliance African Platform On Human Resources For Health Table of Contents Communique of the Executive 1. Rationale for the Consultation Objectives and Expected 2. Proceedings of the The Day One Consolidating Country Actions and Day Two What We Day three Acting on What We Closing Closing 3. Recommendations of the Communique of the List of Appendix 1. Participant Appendix 1. Participant Appendix 2 Programme of the Cite as EQUINET NORAD UKAid ECSA HC AMREF ACHEST APHRH GHWA Intrahealth UNH4 SCF 2012 Report of a Consultation on Improving Access to Health Worker at the Frontline for Better Maternal and Child Survival Intercontinental Hotel Nairobi Kenya 25-27 June 2012 U Limpopo EQUINET South Africa 1 Communique of the Consultation Improving Access to Health Workers at the Frontline for Better Maternal and Child Survival Background The Consultation on Improving Access to Health Workers at the Frontline for Better Maternal and Child Survival was held at the InterContinental Hotel in Nairobi Kenya from 25 to 27 June 2012. The meeting was organised by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation NORAD together with the Regional Network for Equity in Health in East and Southern Africa EQUINET IntraHealth International UK Department for International Development DFID Save the Children Global Health Workforce Alliance GHWA East Central and Southern African Health Community ECSA HC UNAIDS UNICEF Partnership on Maternal Newborn and Child Health PMNCH UNH4 African Platform on Human Resources for Health APHRH African Centre