Posters

Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health
Strengthening Systems for Maternal Health
Reproductive and Sexual Health
Underlying Factors in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
Measuring and Monitoring Maternal Health
Policy, Advocacy and Communications

Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

Poster Presentations: Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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A.Abbakar: Use of prenatal care services in Kassala, eastern Sudan
A.Ahmed: Community involvement in improving maternal health in Bangladesh
A.Dongre: An approach to monitor and initiate community led actions for antenatal care in rural India
A.Mir: Can Misoprostol be used at home for the prevention of PPH in rural Pakistan?
B.Bhat: Impact of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) on promoting institutional deliveries in Jammu and Kashmir
B.Savy: Increase in facility births poses new challenges
C.Rokx: Health system strengthening for maternal health in Indonesia
E.Elhassan: Anemia and low birth weight in Medani Hospital, Sudan
F.Luzinda: Nutrition awareness programs for prenatal and postnatal health: experiences of women in Goma subcountry (Mukono district, Uganda)
F.Ndiaye (substitute for D. Trudeau): On the job training for improved family planning and maternal and child health services in Senegal: the mentoring approach
J.Bejarano: Road to maternal survival for indigenous Andean women
K.Thomas: Social marketing approach as an alternative extension delivery for nutrition intervention among women in Osun state, Nigeria
L.Freij: Training community educators to shift norms of marriage in Yemen
L.Tamang: Nurses' efforts in establishing an independent birthing centre in Nepal
M.Bhatta: Effectiveness of focused-interventions to improve maternal health in Nepal
P.Loomba: Identifying gaps in medical abortion dispensing behavior among pharmacies in India
P.Patel: Empowering traditional birth attendants (TBAs) as a link between community and health facilities
R.Ahuja: Shaping demand and practices to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition outcomes in northern India
S.Pandit: Ensuring health through insurance: lessons from working with slum communities in Nanded City, India
V.Manning: Lessons learnt in scaling up abortion services in the public sector
V.Shaahu: Quality of antenatal care in Ibarapa region of Oyo state, Nigeria
Vd.Bajpai (substitute for Subhangi): Civil society partnership with public health system
Vd.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health
Z. Rashid (substitute for A.Wajid): Which cadres of birth attendants are likely to be more effective in rural Pakistan?

Poster Presentations: Ideas and Interventions to Improve Maternal Health

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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A.Gogoi: Increasing access to skilled attendance at birth
A.Isah: Engagement of clerics improves fistula prevention and reintegration efforts in northern Nigeria
D.Panwar: Supporting frontline workers to improve home-visits: strengthening government systems in Uttar Pradesh, India
F.Jega: Actions to manage and prevent postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in Nigeria
F.Khatun: Home deliveries and traditional birth attendants: findings from an operations research on chlorhexidine introduction in Bangladesh
G.Sankar: Manman an Bon Sante Timoun an Bon Sante (healthy mothers, healthy children project): pre and post earthquake in rural Haiti, 2004-2010
G.Verma: How to build a commercially viable model for delivery of public health products and services?
H.Alemu: Community based data for decision-making for improving maternal and neonatal health in rural Ethiopia
L.Palo: Nutrition secure India
L.Vanderveken: Community participation: increasing quality and use of child survival and reproductive health services
M.Haris: Effective community based support improves maternal health behaviors
M.Khan: Household costs of obtaining maternal and newborn care: Can poor households afford skilled care in rural Bangladesh?
M.Krishna: Cost analysis of interventions to stimulate community action for the improvement of maternal & newborn health in Uttar Pradesh (Sure Start) and implications for replication
M.Sibande: Community based safe motherhood in rural Malawi
M.Vasquez: Maternal health and vulnerability among indigenous women from northwestern Argentina
M.Vasquez: Mother to child transmission (MTCT) prevention strategy in low-income areas from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Md.Iqbal: Cause of adult female deaths in slums of Dhaka City: implications for maternal health service delivery
Md.Isalm: Community support system for improving maternal health
O.Omobowale: National health insurance scheme, MDG and maternal and child health in Oyo state, Nigeria
O.Omobowale: Sociocultural beliefs and sexual activity among postmenopausal women in an urban community in Iban, Nigeria
O.Taiwo: Mobile healthcare
S.Dutta: Microfinance as an untapped resource to improve the health of pregnant women and infants
S.Mulyanga: Right to care: engaging health workers and communities in ensuring women's right to safe pregnancy and childbirth
S.Pathak: Upgrading maternity and newborn care across Mumbai's Municipal Hospitals
S.Saha: Cost analysis study for a program to improve maternal and newborn health in three cities of Maharashtra
T.Joshi: Strengthening systems for scaling up village health and nutrition days in northern India
V.Kumari: Traditional remedies for induction of labor
Vd.Bajpai (substitute for Subhangi): Civil society partnership with public health system
Vd.Bajpai: Public hearing for enhancing public accountability for maternal health

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Strengthening Systems for Maternal Health

Poster Presentations: Strengthening Systems for Maternal Health

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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B.Alam: Provision of comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Bangladesh
D.Byrd: Standard based management and recognition (quality assurance) as a means to empower health workers in Afghanistan
J.Smith: Improving maternal health through health systems strengthening: lessons from Malawi
O.Kehinde: Gaps in knowledge of HIV transmission: a survey of antenatal clinic attendees in a rural Nigerian community
R.Gopinath: Integrating health and family welfare structures to achieve synergistic action at primary health care level: systemic reforms in Andhra Pradesh, India
R.Nunez-Urquiza: Critical links in healthcare systems to avert maternal deaths
R.Nunez-Urquiza: Using geographical information system and health service data to measure met need for emergency obstetric care in Mexico
R.Rai: Do accessibility to health facility centres and availability of health care providers affect quality maternal health care in Indian villages?
R.Rai: Dynamics of contraceptive use: apprehension versus future intention among non users and traditional method users in selected Indian states
S.Hossain: Cell phones to improve access to information and health care in maternal emergencies in rural Bangladesh
T.Wahed: The client's perspective on oxytocin use to augment labor during home deliveries in an urban slum, Bangladesh

Poster Presentations: Strengthening Systems for Maternal Health

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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C.Ndwiga: Maximizing human resource utilization in low resource settings: mentoring works!
D.Sarkar: A comparison of the health systems in Bangladesh and India
L.Shaikh: Public private partnership intervention in south Asia in health sector
M.Bhattacharya: Understanding of maternal health indicators in HMIS among peripheral level health functionaries in Uttar Pradesh
M.vanDijk: Sexual and reproductive health needs of recently pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS in Mexico
R.Nunez-Urquiza: Critical links in healthcare systems to avert maternal deaths
R.Nunez-Urquiza: Using geographical information system and health service data to measure met need for emergency obstetric care in Mexico
S.Ganda: Implementing policies to reduce maternal mortalities in Niger
S.Ghosh: Assessment of FRU functioning and setting up a monitoring mechanism as a step towards improving quality: West Bengal experience
S.Uddin: Strengthening maternal health services in rural areas
T.Yigzaw: Making preservice HIV/AIDS intervention work for strengthening the quality of midwifery education: The Case of Gondar University

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Reproductive and Sexual Health

Poster Presentations: Reproductive and Sexual Health

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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A.Tamang: Role of private pharmacists and medicine sellers in increasing safe abortion access to Nepalese women living in Indo-Nepal border settlements
B. George (substitute for M.Steiner): Global introduction of a new low cost contraceptive implant
D.Shrestha: Risk factors of uterine prolapse, and reason for delay in utilization of health services among women with uterine prolapse admitted at Gynae ward of BPKIHS
E.Otupiri: Abortion in Bosonmtwe district, Ghana: a case control study at St. Michael's Hospital
F.Sultana: Comparing quality of post menstrual regulation family planning counseling between government and NGO facilities in Bangladesh
M,Ako: Effect of a school based sexual and reproductive health intervention on pupils' knowledge, attitudes and sexual behaviour in rural northeastern Ghana
M.G.P: Increasing access to medical abortion as a way to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality
M.Mbah: Reproductive health in Cameroon
R.Rai: Do accessibility to health facility centres and availability of health care providers affect quality maternal health care in Indian villages?
R.Rai: Dynamics of contraceptive use: apprehension versus future intention among non users and traditional method users in selected Indian states
S. Agampodi: Reproductive health services for newlywed couples: a Sri Lankan experience
S.Adaji: Fixing the fistula problem in northern Nigeria: the human resources angle
S.Posokhova: Reproductive health and family planning in HIV-infected women
V.Pandey: Status of teenage pregnancy and the role of 108 emergency medical services in ten states of India

Poster Presentations: Reproductive and Sexual Health

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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B.Hassan: Health workers leadership and managment impact on maternal health
I.Hena (substitute for U. Rob): Creating a space for men and youth at health and family welfare centers
J.Gutierrez: Companions of legal abortion service users at Mexico City
J.Vajpayee: Quality assurance for increasing acceptance of IUD insertion through private providers
K.Geeta: Physical health and morbidity profile of women in reproductive and postmenopausal years
M.Okenge: Evolution of maternal mortality in armed conflict zones in Maniema province, DR Congo
O.Omobowale: National health insurance scheme, MDG and maternal and child health in Oyo state, Nigeria
O.Omobowale: Sociocultural beliefs and sexual activity among postmenopausal women in an urban community in Iban, Nigeria
P.Sanhueza: Companions of legal abortion service users at Mexico City
S.Pednekar: Infertility observed in a community study stree arogya shodh: a women's health program in Goa, India
S.Unisa: Prevalence of infertility and unmet need of treatment

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Underlying Factors in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Poster Presentations: Underlying Factors in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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A.Sahu: Factors affecting maternal health care Services in Orissa: findings from NFHS-III Survey
D.Navin: Awareness and accessibility of medical abortion among women in India
J.Chawla: Indigenous systems of medicine (ISM): essential inputs for maternal health policies
K.Rimarova: Socio-economic inequality influencing outcomes of pregnancies and newborns parameters in Roma (Gypsy) and non Roma population
L.Singh:Assessing utilization of reproductive and child health care among married adolescents Indian women: how far, how close?
M.Pradhan: Appraising maternal health status in India: does empowerment of women matter?
N.Huq: Maternal and neonatal complication management in rural Bangladesh: lesson learned from a formative research
O.Arulogun: Factors associated with late reporting for antenatal care among women of child bearing age in Udi Local Government Area, Nigeria
R.Bhargava: Nutritional status of adolescent girls in urban slums of Allahabad and the impact of communication methods on their knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP)
R.Kulkami: Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices of self help group women on maternal health issues in Maharashtra, India
R.Tweheyo: Factors affecting male partner participation in skilled delivery care in a peri-urban community in Gulu district, Northern Uganda, 2009
S.Chandorkar: Maternal nutritional status: a hospital-based study
S.Singh: Inner space and outer faces of gender and sexuality in reproductive health: lessons from the intervention for improving health outcomes

Poster Presentations: Underlying Factors in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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A.Gupta: Environmental determinants for maternal health: a case study of Delhi slums
A.Igbafe: Management of obstetric complications
J.MacLellan: Lack of information and antenatal anxiety in a sample of pregnant women from rural Cambodia
M.Rahman: Overcoming the challenges to achieve millennium development goal for maternal health in India
M.Vasquez: Maternal health and vulnerability among indigenous women from northwestern Argentina
M.Vasquez: Mother to child transmission (MTCT) prevention strategy in low-income areas from Buenos Aires, Argentina
O.Makinde: Mortalities associated with severe pre-eclampsia in a Nigerian teaching hospital
P.Ramesh (substitute for Virginie Chasles): Supply and access to maternal care infrastructure in rural South India (Anantapur District)
R.Adholeya: Influence of Indian socio-cultural beliefs in gender biased attitude and health seeking behavior of women: a pilot study towards potential role of community health practitioner (CHP)
R.Shahrawat: Socio economic inequities and risk of maternal mortality among pregnant women in India
S.Mukhopadhyay: PAHEL: towards Empowering Women

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Measuring and Monitoring Maternal Health

Poster Presentations: Measuring and Monitoring Maternal Health

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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Azza Omer

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A.Omer: Maternal mortality measurement through census, countries' experience and lessons learnt

Poster Presentations: Measuring and Monitoring Maternal Health

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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Boniface A. Oye-Adeniran | Nirmala Nair | Nuwan Dharshana | Prayas Joshi | Reetu Sharma

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B.Oye-Adeniran: The use of the sisterhood method for estimating maternal mortality ratio in Lagos state, Nigeria
N.Dharshana (substitute for E. Thalagala): Data quality of maternal morbidity surveillance in Sra Lanka
N.Nair: Understanding the context, causes, and determinants of maternal deaths in the underserved areas of bordering districts of Jharkhand and Orissa states of India
P.Joshi: HMIS: a tool for a successful and safe motherhood
R.Sharma: ICDS and RCH: issues of Convergence and Synergy

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Policy, Advocacy and Communications

Poster Presentations: Policy, Advocacy and Communications

August 31, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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A.Ademola: Local government legislators perception on maternal mortality and strategies for reduction in Ibadan metropolis of Oyo state, Nigeria
A.Garba: Repositioning the commitment of 10 LGAs and state government in addressing maternal morbidity and mortality in Kano State of Nigeria through improved budgetary allocation and service delivery
A.Kashyap: Accountability in maternal health care: translating law Into Health Interventions
A.Nyarko: Testing for syphilis in pregnancy: policy versus practice in Ashanti region, Ghana
A.Rastogi: Analysis of the use of public interest litigation to address reproductive health issues in India
L.Vanotoo: Community perceptions, beliefs, and practices about stillbirth
M.Khatun: Trends of institutional deliveries by wealth quintile: evidence from repeated national surveys in Bangladesh
N.Sloan: Saving women's lives: unite for the cause!
V.Fauveau: Investing in midwives: surely the best way to reach MDG 5

Poster Presentations: Policy, Advocacy and Communications

September 1, 2010 16:15-17:45 Room - Hall

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Anjali Borhade | Deepa Jha | Ndola Prata | Sabina Wakasiaka | Suranjeen Prasad

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D.Jha: Deliver now for women and children: advocacy for maternal and child health in India
N.Prata: Community mobilization to increase uptake of maternal health services in northern Nigeria
S.Prasad: Improving effective utilization of NRHM flexible funds for improved maternal and child health outcomes
S.Wakasiaka: Interpretation of safe motherhood policies by midwives practitioners in Kenya

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