MNBC definition
Examples of MNBC in a sentence
The ACCESS/Nigeria Project approach integrated FP with maternal and newborn care MNBC services using a Household to Hospital Continuum of Care framework.
The second indicator measured increased utilization of newborn essential care and has already been discussed with the PO indicators that measured increased utilization of FP and MNBC services.
Demand creation for MNBC services under the ACCESS/MCHIP Project focused on community mobilization efforts and relied largely on Interpersonal Communication (IPC) utilizing community leaders, male motivators and women who went house to house to reach pregnant women in their homes.
It would appear that the hospitals were slightly less affected by the stock-outs than the PHCs. Feedback from the facility staff visited and SMOH and LGA officials interviewed further supports the fact that utilization of key FP and MNBC services increased at the facility level over the LOP.
The ACCESS/Nigeria approach focused on increasing the supply, demand and quality of FP and MNBC interventions through community mobilization, competency based skills training for providers, strengthened service delivery management and improved quality of care at the facility level.
The high levels of MMR and total fertility rate (TFR) and the low contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) reflect the low utilization rates of MNBC services including FP, as well as inadequate availability and accessibility of services and skilled service providers.
All FP and Maternal and Newborn Care (MNBC) services were facility-based; only awareness raising, counseling and the establishment of Emergency Transport Systems (ETSs) were community based.
Integration of FP into MNBC services worked well, due largely to the fact that FP was presented in terms of birth spacing and ANC was used as the entry point.
USAID/Nigeria also chose to focus heavily on integrating birth spacing with MNBC services and was one of the few Missions to design and carry out a baseline and endline population-based survey, although only for the ACCESS phase.
Household Counselors (HHCs), recruited and trained to educate pregnant women on a one-to-one basis in their homes about the danger signs of pregnancy, labor, delivery and during the postpartum period, especially with their newborns, proved to be an effective mechanism for increasing awareness and demand for MNBC services in an appropriate manner.