Guinea

We partner with Guinea’s government and local organizations to improve maternal health care in four regions.

Adama Barry, MOMENTUM Safe Surgery Guinea

MOMENTUM is partnering with nearly 40 countries to accelerate progress and advance USAID’s work to save lives and improve health outcomes for women, children, families, and communities in all of their diversity. MOMENTUM brings together specialized technical and country expertise through six distinct yet integrated awards with the depth and breadth of experience to spur reductions in maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity.

In Guinea, MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics collaborates with the government and professional organizations to strengthen surgical safety in maternal health care and prevent and treat obstetric and iatrogenic fistula.

Strengthening Safe Surgeries for Maternal Health

Guinea has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world at 550 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births (DHS 2018). Many maternal and newborn deaths in Guinea can be attributed to inadequate emergency obstetric and neonatal care services. MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics works with governmental partners and professional associations in Guinea’s Boké, Conakry, Kindia, and Labé regions to address some of the root causes of maternal morbidity and mortality. The project strengthens gaps in surgical teams’ capacities to provide safe surgical obstetric care and prevent and treat fistula, a maternal injury that occurs when obstructed labor leaves a hole in the birth canal, causing uncontrollable leakage of human waste. The project also provides technical support to the government to update, develop, test, validate, and implement quality improvement and social and behavioral change strategies with providers to optimize appropriate and high-quality cesarean delivery care.

Sita Millimono, MOMENTUM Safe Surgery Guinea
Our Partners in Guinea

MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics: EngenderHealth, Guinea Ministry of Public Health & Hygiene (Family Health Directorate; Community Health Directorate);  Guinea Ministry for the Advancement of Women, Children, and Vulnerable People; Guinean Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SOGGO); Guinean Order of Midwives; Guinean Order of Nurses

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