Factors Affecting Achievement or Non-Achievement of Program Objectives. The inadequate number of district-based health facilities in Memba and Nacala-a-Velha continues to negatively impact program goals. • Due to existing traditions, many women prefer to participate in a prenatal care program during the second trimester of pregnancy. Reasons given for this preference included taboos around revealing pregnancy before “showing”, waiting until the sensation of fetal movement is felt and hearing that nurses at health posts will not see you until later in the pregnancy.
Factors Affecting Achievement or Non-Achievement of Program Objectives. Save the Children supported transportation logistics for the Mobile Brigade outreach activities, and this effort contributed significantly to increasing vaccine coverage in the district. However, the overall low achievement of program objectives is attributed to frequent stockouts of vaccines at district-based health facilities, including the unreliable supply of kerosene necessary to maintain the functioning of the district cold chain system.
Factors Affecting Achievement or Non-Achievement of Program Objectives. Mothers and children living far away from areas that can be covered by health facilities continue to suffer from lack of information about malaria prevention and lack of appropriate malaria case management.
Factors Affecting Achievement or Non-Achievement of Program Objectives. The continued low capacity and insufficient number of trained health workers in the districts that can deliver curative and preventive services has limited progress of this intervention.
Factors Affecting Achievement or Non-Achievement of Program Objectives. Traditional beliefs and barriers continue to prevent considerable progress with diarrheal disease control program activities. For example, exclusive breastfeeding is not yet fully practiced by all mothers in the target districts because some of them continue to discard the colostrum and give sugar water to their babies.
Factors Affecting Achievement or Non-Achievement of Program Objectives. Traditional beliefs and barriers continue to prevent considerable progress with child spacing intervention because most men believe that having many children enhances their standing in the community. In addition, the persistent high rates of infant and child mortality encourage families to have more children to compensate for those who die from childhood diseases. The FE team believes that child spacing has a good chance for success because communities and health facilities are working on the interventions that will reduce child mortality in the project area. It is believed that as more children survive beyond the age of five, more families will start to use available family planning services that will contribute to achieving the desired family size in rural areas of Mozambique.
