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Title: Transition to Skilled Birth Attendance: Is There a Future Role for Trained Traditional Birth Attendants?(Report)
Author : Journal of Health Population and Nutrition
Release Date : January 01, 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 232 KB

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INTRODUCTION Every year, an estimated four million babies die in the first four weeks of life, and a similar number of babies are stillborn. Moreover, half a million women die from pregnancy-related causes. Most of these deaths occur at home during the first postnatal or postpartum week, especially within the first 24 hours of birth. Most occur in developing countries with weak or failing health systems, with South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa being especially hard-hit (1-3). For more than three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other agencies of the United Nations promoted training of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) as a global public-health strategy to reduce this tragic loss of life (4). Lack of evidence to demonstrate that trained TBAs can reduce maternal mortality led to controversy over their training in relation to safe motherhood and a policy shift to skilled birth attendance (5-7). In this paper, we provided a brief history of TBA training, reviewed evidence of the effectiveness of TBA training, and considered the future role of trained TBAs in an environment that emphasizes the transition to skilled birth attendance.