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Walking Together: Towards a Collaborative Model for Maternal Health Care in Pastoralist Communities of Laikipia and Samburu, Kenya
(10/1/2017)
Purpose: In 2009 the Kenyan Government introduced health system reforms to address
persistently high maternal and newborn mortality including deployment of skilled birth
attendants (SBAs) to health facilities in remote ...
Factors Influencing Place of Delivery for Pastoralist Women in Kenya: A Qualitative Study
(2016)
Background: Kenya’s high maternal mortality ratio can be partly explained by the low proportion of women delivering in health facilities attended by skilled birth attendants (SBAs). Many women continue to give birth at ...
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in Pastoralist Communities of Laikipia and Samburu Counties, Kenya: a Cross-sectional Survey
(Pan African Medical Journal, 11/26/2016)
Introduction: current efforts to reduce maternal and newborn mortality focus on promoting institutional deliveries with skilled birth attendants
(SBAs), and discouraging deliveries at home attended by traditional birth ...