Global Fund

Caption: “I love it. I just love my job! I just wanted to be a midwife. I went to a facility as a patient when I was pregnant and there was another mother there. She wanted help and the midwife said she was going for lunch – I asked her to help the other woman. I said then that I had to be a midwife and make a change. I was 21. It took three years to become trained. I can’t remember how many babies I’ve delivered. There are three babies named Winnie here.” From Jan – June 2019 the clinic was funded by Big Up Uganda / Adwoa Aboa. Winnie explains what happened in those six months.This IYCF centre opened thanks to Adwoa’s funding. (The structure was there but empty)Adwoa’s funding funded three mother and baby areas and this IYCF centre. We did IYCF in Emergencies training with nutrition counsellors in all four centres.In April we had a child day plus, so immunisation for children who had missed their supplements, up to give years. And we give HPV to children aged 9 and 10.We have community dialogues. We closed the inpatient department so we go talk to communities about family planning, ante natal, where to find IYCF corners.Under Adwoa’s funding we have been able to do some training in EMTCT – elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV. I did this training.We had training in EMTCT. We trained staff and local government /District facilities. 28 people were trained. We did training in pharmaceutical drug rations too. And we did quality improvement training. It’s all about the key things that have to be done to ensure services of quality.In the last six months we had immunisations for mumps and measles in Feb/March, in the whole settlement. We support the ministry – they bring the vaccines and we do the rest.We also supplied mass nutrition screening for all of the settlement. We reached about 31,000 beneficiaries. We did this in February and May.We also have male engagement sessions. Dads come and we tell them about nutrition and feeding. They are