SAFE MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE

The Six Pillars of Safe Motherhood

Safe Motherhood

Post-Abortion Care
Family Planning

STD-HIV Control
Post-Natal Care
Ante-Natal Care

Obstetric Care

COMMUNICATION FOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

EQUITY AND EDUCATION FOR WOMEN

 1. Family Planning

 Increase number service delivery points

 Encourage adolescents to delay first pregnancy

 Encourage couples to space births

 Update service providers’ skills:

 Contraceptive technology

 Counseling
 2. Ante-Natal Care

 Provide iron+folic acid supplements

 Conduct immunization against tetanus

 Conduct routine deworming

 Provide presumptive treatment for

malaria

 Screen for risk factors

3. Skilled Obstetric Care at Birth

 Increase the number of midwives

 Update providers’ life saving skills
 Monitor labor using a partograph
 Provide essential obstetric care
 Improve referral system
 Mobilize ambulance/transportation services
 Provide vitamin A supplement after delivery
 4. Post-Natal Care

 Identify and manage danger signs

 Counsel and provide family planning services

 Counsel on maternal nutrition during lactation

 Promote good traditional social support

 Conduct maternal mortality audits and review

meetings
 5. Post-Abortion Care

 Train and equip personnel to offer MVA

 Counsel and provide family planning

services

 Start prompt treatment for sepsis

 6. STD/HIV Control

 Offer voluntary testing and counseling

 Screen pregnant women for syphilis

 Manage cases and their complications

 Continue and expand ongoing successful

prevention activities
 Family Planning

Ante-Natal Care

Obstetric Care

Post-Natal Care
Safe Motherhood

Post-Abortion Care

STD-HIV Control
The Six Pillars of Safe Motherhood
 Family Planning

Ante-Natal Care

Obstetric Care

Post-Natal Care
Safe Motherhood

Post-Abortion Care
Communication for Behavior Change

STD-HIV Control
The Six Pillars of Safe Motherhood
The Six Pillars of Safe Motherhood

Safe Motherhood

Post-Abortion Care
Family Planning

STD-HIV Control
Post-Natal Care
Ante-Natal Care

Obstetric Care

Communication for Behavior Change

Primary Health Care

 The Six Pillars of Safe Motherhood

Safe Motherhood

Post-Abortion Care
Family Planning

STD-HIV Control
Post-Natal Care
Ante-Natal Care

Obstetric Care

Communication for Behavior Change

Primary Health Care

Equity and Education for Women

Benefits of these Actions
Estimated for:
 Better ante-natal care

 Better obstetric care

 Reduction of:

 Malaria

 Anaemia

 Iodine deficiency

Not Estimated for:

 Better neonatal care

 Better family planning

 Reduced incidence of STDs/HIV