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    MULTICOUNTRY MEETING IN ARMENIA ACCELERATES PROGRESS TOWARD IMPROVED MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IN EASTERN EUROPE

    World Health Organization
    Nov 6 2013

    06-11-2013

    Alberta Bacci

    Within a project to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and
    mortality in eastern Europe by improving primary health care for women
    and babies and referral systems during pregnancy and after childbirth,
    WHO organized a meeting on this topic on 24-25 October 2013 in Yerevan,
    Armenia. The project is being implemented in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan
    and is financed by the Government of the Russian Federation.

    The meeting allowed participants:

    to summarize the project's achievements; to share experience in
    implementation of the "WHO assessment tool for the quality of
    outpatient antepartum and postpartum care for women and newborns";
    to review the introduction of supportive supervision and improvement
    of referral systems not only in the project's target countries, but
    also in 10 other countries of eastern and central Europe; to identify
    remaining challenges.

    Main outcomes

    Participants developed recommendations for improvement of referral
    systems and concrete actions to implement these recommendations in
    the near future.

    The meeting was an important step forward in accelerating progress
    toward achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 (on reducing
    child mortality and improving maternal health) and the objectives of
    the European policy for health and well-being "Health 2020".

    Invited speakers

    Besides representatives of 12 Member States nominated by their
    ministries of health, the meeting was attended by experts and
    international development partners.

    Dr S. Khachatryan, Deputy Minister of Health of Armenia, Dr S.

    Axelrod, Deputy Director of the Department of International
    Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Health of the
    Russian Federation, and many other speakers emphasized the importance
    of improving maternal and newborn health, health promotion and the
    prevention of complications related to childbirth.

    Professor R. Nadishauskiene, Chair of the European Regional Panel
    on Research and Training in Reproductive Health and Head of the
    Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in the Lithuanian University of
    Health Sciences, said "I was happy to share experience of development
    of a referral system for pregnant women, mothers and newborns in my
    country, but I also learned a lot and will use the new knowledge in
    Lithuania. The meeting provided the possibility to look at outpatient
    care from another angle".

    http://www.euro.who.int/en/countries/armenia/news/news/2013/11/multicountry-meeting-in-armenia-accelerates-progress-toward-improved-maternal-and-child-health-in-eastern-europe


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