Mali - Traditional Knowledge and the Reduction of Maternal and Infant Mortality
Maternal and infant mortality remains very high in Mali, despite the technical, organizational and financial efforts made by the Ministry of Health and donors during the last ten years. The data available from the three EDS are eloquent in this res...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/11/2895300/mali-traditional-knowledge-reduction-maternal-infant-mortality-mali-traditional-knowledge-reduction-maternal-infant-mortality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10775 |
| Summary: | Maternal and infant mortality remains
very high in Mali, despite the technical, organizational and
financial efforts made by the Ministry of Health and donors
during the last ten years. The data available from the three
EDS are eloquent in this respect: infant mortality, which
was 108 (EDS I, 1982-1987), reached 123 (EDS II, 1996) to
freeze at 113 (EDS III, 2001); maternal mortality rose from
577 deaths out of 100.000 births (EDS II, 1996) to 582 (EDS
III, 2001). The retraining of Traditional Birth Attendants (
TBAs ) From the 1980s, many attempts at "retraining
" TBAs and the matrons were supported by WHO, UNICEF,
UNFPA and other bilateral and multilateral cooperation
agencies, as a temporary measure, pending the training of
more health professionals who could take charge of
childbirth assistance functions. |
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