Issue

Issue

Action

Action

EPI acceleration

EPI acceleration

Impact

Impact

Health services and sector reform

Health services and sector reform

Immunization

Immunization

Disease control

Disease control

Reproductive health and safe motherhood

Reproductive health and safe motherhood

 

Impact

© UNICEF Somalia/01-130-Taylor

Happy woman and children. Though the maternal mortality rates in Somalia are among the highest in the world, UNICEF through its health programme seeks to ensure a brighter future for mothers and children like these in the picture taken in 2001.

Key aspects of  the UNICEF country programme for Somalia included the following:

1. Providing essential drugs and medical equipment to health centres.

2. Training medical staff in supervision and monitoring.

3. Preventing and controlling outbreaks of malaria, measles, meningitis and cholera through immunization and related awareness campaigns, training health staff, and providing vaccines and cold chain supplies.

4. Reducing the number of reported cases of wild polio virus.

5. Improving the availability and use of essential supplies, particularly clean delivery kits, for safe home delivery and obstetric care.

6. Improving the capacity of local authorities to manage health care systems, through training, assisting in the development of health sector policies and establishing standards.