HEALTH MESSENGER
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03 MATERNAL HEALTH: FOR A SAFE MOTHERHOOD
EDITORIAL
CONTENTS AND EDITORIAL
P h o t o A M I 2 0 0 6
The rst issue of
Health Messenger
wasdedicated to “Mental Health”. The secondone to “Communicable diseases”. The thirdone is focusing on “Maternal health”: wedo not pretend to cover this very importanttheme in just one issue, but it should enableyou to rely on basic elements of mother andchild health. You will be able to refer to it for your consultations, but also in trainings, aswell as during information and preventioncampaigns. As for the previous issues of
HealthMessenger
, this choice is a feedback fromthe eld: problems that have been identied by Acehnese healthworkers, by AMI’s medical staff, and by different actors of the publichealth system of NAD. If primary health care is starting to be op
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erational, maternal health seems to be slower to be put into place,despite a growing number of trained midwives.With regards to maternal health, the Indonesian health system isvery sophisticated: through Polindes and Posyandu, health workersare present in the most remote areas, whether it is for prevention or for healing. Thus, for the Puskesmas, the link between the villagesis performed through the Polindes and the management of theseproximity structures and their teams is a major part of the work of the Puskesmas. The challenge is now to totally rebuild this system,integrating former conict-affected areas.Several partners joined us for this third edition: International Res
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cue Committee (IRC), UNFPA, Enfants réfugiés du monde (ERM),JHPIEGO, Handicap International (HI),
UNICEF
, Aceh Partnerships InHealth (APIH), BRR Aceh and Nias, Ikatan Bidan Indonesia (IBI), Phar
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maciens sans frontières – Comité international (PSF-CI), and as usual,the WHO ofce-Banda Aceh and the PHO who proofread the articles.We thank them all for making this
HM
n°3 a really pluralist issue.While distributing
Health Messenger
n°2, we did a rst evalua
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tion of the efciency of the distribution system, which enabled us toknow who reads our magazine and where. We would like here tothank all the health workers who took the time to answer our ques
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tions, as well as those who, using the Questionnaire enclosed in themagazine, sent us their remarks and suggestions.What is signicant for us is that the magazine denitely corre
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sponds to a need here in NAD, and is really appreciated by its read
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ers and users: 82% of the interrogated persons (75% of them areworking in Puskesmas) knew
HM
n°1. And 95% of those had readit, 65,67% had shared it with their colleagues ; 50% of our readershave received
HM
by AMI’s distribution teams. The evaluation alsoshows that if
HM
does fulll its role as a health information vector, itis still not used as we wish it would be for trainings.Many of you asked for
Health Messenger
to be publishedmonthly. As regards to the time needed for the production of onemagazine, it is so far impossible. Your suggestions for more illus
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trations, and concrete cases, will be taken into account. Many of you also mentioned that there is a need for information and trainingmaterial on nutrition, HIV/AIDS, Bird Flue, which hopefully we willtackle in our next issues. Enjoy your reading and we will meet againin November 2006 with
Health Messenger
n°4.
Philippe Léger, Head of Mission AMI Indonesiaand Julie Chansel, Publication manager
Contents
NEwS02IN OUR COUNTRY04Guidelines on drug donationsPUBLIC HEALTH06Maternal health policyFamily planningGENERAL HEALTH14Ho to do ANC and PNCDanger signs during pregnancyInstrument processingManagement of normal deliveryDanger signs during deliveryNeborn assessmentNeborn resuscitationOrthopaedic problemsMEDICINE34Drugs to avoid during pregnancyREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH36what is reproductive health?Female genital cuttingHEALTH EDUCATION40Good hygiene principleTetanus immunizationNUTRITION44Iron and folic acid during pregnancyMOTHER AND CHILD46The arousal of the nebornBreastfeedingTO GO DEEPER50Pregnancy and MalariaPregnancy and AIDSSOCIETY56TBAs and the communityA delivery kit for TBAsVIEwPOINT62Improving maternal healthqUESTIONNAIRE64