Equatorial Guinea - Campaign to End Fistula

c) To develop Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities as well as an
advocacy on Emmergency Obstetric Cares (EMOC) and obstetric fistula, through the
following activities:
- Operationalisation of 18 IEC distrital teams to allow women and the families to
recognize signs and alert symptoms and pregnancy complications and deliveries and
to adopt responsible behaviours to avoid obstetric fistula.
- To prioritize advance strategy jointly between health and IEC agents in order to
increase utilisation of ante natal consultation (ANC) services, family planning (FP)
and information on fistula in terms of causes, cosequences and possibilities of
treatment, through difussion of appropriate messages accessible to the population.
- Empowerment of counseilling in health centers and maternities to stabilize a real
confidence between women and health personnel ensuring that women are
accepting identification and reparation of obstetric fistula.
- To develop advocacy activities for the mobilisation of ressources to allow reparation
and socialeconomic reinsertion of women after obstetric fistula reparations.
- Utilisation of all available communication media that can permit exhaustive detection
of all existing and not yet identified fistula to seek for reparation.
d) To promote the stablishment of women groupes and associations to improve maternal
health through the following activities:
- To support female and non governemental organisations (NGOs) to associate and
join establishment of organisation for the transportation of obstetric emmergencies.
- To put at disposal of women organisations (groups and NGOs) media and
modalities to permit the families, when necessary, in the payment of expenses
regarding obstetric cares through a system of activities of generation of incomes
(DJANGUE).
- Mobilisation of men to participate in the establishment of female organisations
towards the promotion of Reproductive Health.
e) To warranty reparation and reinsertion of women after obstetric fistula reparations,
through the following activities:
- The application of the elaborated obstetric fistula reparation protocol, including the
mobilisation of a team of specialists on reparation of Addis Abeba and Nigeria to
reinforce national teams of the regional hospitals of Malabo and Bata.
- The establishment of a psycosocial accompanying plan to facilitate social
reinsertion of women after obstetric fistula operations.
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