Project profile — Maternal Health Care in Cité Soleil



Overview 

CA-3-S064774001
$500,000
Doctors of the World Canada (CA-CRA_ACR-0010011509)
2010-03-25 - 2012-07-31
Closed
Global Affairs Canada
MFM Global Issues & Dev.Branch

Country / region 

• Haiti (100.00%)

Sector 

• Health, General: Medical education/training (12181) (15.00%)
• Basic Health: Health education (12261) (15.00%)
• Reproductive health care:
Reproductive health care (13020) (25.00%)
Family planning (13030) (25.00%)
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040) (10.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (10.00%)

Policy marker 

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

Description 

The project aims to improve access to quality health care, and to establish a maternal health clinic at the Centre de Santé Fontaine in Cité Soleil. In particular, it aims to reduce barriers faced by women of childbearing age in accessing health services; to strengthen the capacity of the existing health system; to reduce the risk of mortality; and to contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Expected results 

N/A

Results achieved 

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2012) include: 1,222 training sessions have been provided on family planning and the importance of professional health care during pregnancy and institutional childbirth; individual family planning counselling sessions have been conducted with 18,766 women of child-bearing age, allowing them to make informed choices about family planning methods; 1,792 women have been referred to the local hospital to access family planning methods; over 8,400 pregnant women have received prenatal consultations, of which 5, 757 received their first prenatal consultation; 471 at-risk pregnancies have been referred to a local hospital; 65 HIV-positive pregnant women who enrolled in a program to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child adopted family planning methods for use following their pregnancy. These results are contributing to reducing maternal mortality and improving sexual and reproductive health in Cité Soleil.

Budget and spending 


Original budget $50,000
Planned disbursement $0
Transactions
Transaction Date Type Value
20-09-2012 Disbursement $50,000
Country percentages by sector
Type of finance Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Collaboration type Bilateral
Type of aid Donor country personnel