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Many health facilities in Uganda lack essential emergency obstetric care (EmOC) functions, and utilizing baseline needs assessment data through a sector-wide approach can successfully drive national policy and strategy to address these deficits. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

October 17, 2005

A sector‐wide approach to emergency obstetric care in Uganda

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PURPOSE: To establish a baseline for the availability, utilization, and quality of EmOC, and to help develop an operational strategy based on the findings. METHODS: A needs assessment of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) was carried out in 197 health facilities in 19 out of 56 districts in Uganda, covering 38% of the total population. FINDINGS: There were a large number of missing signal functions at health facilities and an urgent need to improve the availability of EmOC. CONCLUSION: By using the data from the assessment, it was possible to influence national policy through the health sector-wide approach (SWAp) and place EmOC high on the national agenda. A national strategy and roll out plan to strengthen EmOC is now in place.

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