{"id":6051,"date":"2022-04-12T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmtraining.org\/skilled-birth-attendants-the-last-mile-link\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:54:17","slug":"skilled-birth-attendants-the-last-mile-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtraining.org\/fr\/skilled-birth-attendants-the-last-mile-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Skilled Birth Attendants: The Last Mile Link"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Safe Delivery Safe Mother aims to address high fertility and reduce maternal mortality in Pakistan. Recently, the group implemented a pilot project that trained over 160 government-deployed Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs) in the Multan district of the Punjab province. The six-month pilot project concluded in February. The Safe Delivery Safe Mother team is in the process of sharing recommendations on how to increase the use and acceptance of post-partum family planning with the Pakistani government and other partners.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Saima Faiz, from Jalalpur Khaki, Pakistan, says that women in her community have an average of 12 to 14 children. She works in her community\u2019s Basic Health Unit but has felt uncertain about how to help women who want to have safe and affordable family planning choices. After attending a recent training on post-partum family planning methods presented by Safe Delivery Safe Mother<\/a>, her confidence has increased. She found learning how to use the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC)<\/a>, a tool created by the World Health Organization to prescribe suitable family planning methods, particularly helpful. Safe Delivery Safe Mother translated it into her native Urdu, which enabled her to easily incorporate it into her daily clinical practice. The MEC is now an integral part of her counseling toolkit.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Watch the video to view Safe Delivery Safe Mother’s field trainings. Credit: Safe Delivery Safe Mother.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Pakistan has the highest fertility rate in the South Asian region, with 3.6 children per woman and an annual population growth rate of 2.4%. While Safe Delivery Safe Mother believes strongly that women must be able to choose the size of their families, we also know that women and their families are healthier when births are spaced<\/a>. However, in some rural areas, such as Jalalpur Khaki, people believe that family planning prevents births altogether.<\/p>\n

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To address high fertility and maternal death rates, Safe Delivery Safe Mother implemented a pilot project funded through The Pitch regional competition<\/a>, a knowledge management innovation created by Knowledge SUCCESS and sponsored by USAID. The project trained over 160 government-deployed Skilled Birth Attendants (SBAs) in the Multan district, located in the Punjab province (the most populous in Pakistan, with a population of over 110 million). SBAs are often a community\u2019s only source of skilled care, seeing women at a time in their lives when they are most focused on childbearing and health.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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The six-month activity concluded in February; now, the Safe Delivery Safe Mother team is in the process of sharing recommendations on how to increase the use and acceptance of post-partum family planning with the Pakistani government and our partners. We learned many valuable lessons during this project, including:<\/p>\n