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Associations between community health workers’ home visits and education-based inequalities in institutional delivery and perinatal mortality in rural Uttar Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study

India’s National Health Mission has trained community health workers called Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) to visit and counsel women before and after birth. This study aimed to examine whether ASHAs’ third trimester home visits may have contributed to equitable improvements in institutional delivery and reductions in perinatal mortality rates between women with varying education levels in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Continuing Medical Education for strengthening core competencies of Medical Professionals

Continuing Medical Education (CME) helps increase the knowledge and skills of the medical fraternity and remain adept with the latest medical and technological developments. This document provides an overview of the Regional Resource Training Centre (RRTC) intervention, an initiative involving medical colleges to support CME for improved MNCH outcomes among public sector doctors and facility health-care teams in Uttar Pradesh.

PAHAL Issue 10

PAHAL Issue ten captures some of the key interventions of the Government of Uttar Pradesh (GoUP) supported by UP TSU. This includes, capacity building of stakeholders to treat pediatric population as a preparation to Covid-19 pandemic. It has also covered short studies related to reasons for homebirth in Balrampur, tracking GoUP’s family planning program and understanding exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection in Uttar Pradesh.

The Nurse Mentoring Program: Saving Mothers and Newborns

The Nurse Mentoring program was launched in 2014 beginning with 150 blocks of 25 HPDs in Uttar Pradesh. From 2019, it has been scaled up in all 820 blocks of 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh. The program aims to improve knowledge, skills and practices of the staff nurses around mother and newborn care, intra-partum and post-partum care and management of maternal and new born complications, through its dedicated workforce/change agents called Nurse Mentors.

The Buddy Buddy Model: For Rapid Activation of First Referral Units

First Referral Units (FRUs) are required to be equipped with a specialized workforce that can manage all the major medical causes of maternal and neonatal deaths. The Buddy Buddy Model is an innovative policy initiative for activation of FRUs. It incorporates policy enablers for posting and leveraging available MBBS government medical officers trained either in Emergency Obstetrics or in Life Saving Anesthesia Skills, as a pair with complementary skills that are required to conduct C-section deliveries at inactive FRUs.