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Improving the Skills of Health Workers
In Ethiopia, ACCESS is improving the quality of essential maternal and newborn health care (EMNC)
services by building the capacity of training institutions for health workers. With ACCESS assistance, Health Officers (HOs)
and Health Extension Workers (HEWs) are being trained in EMNC, including infection prevention practices in service delivery
and linkages with HIV prevention, care and support services at the community level.
In partnership with the Carter Center and other key stakeholders, ACCESS is strengthening selected hospitals
to serve as training sites for providers from the other HO training hospitals. In these training institutions—as well as in
the HO hospitals selected for intervention—ACCESS is updating faculty and service providers in EMNC clinical and teaching
skills, ensuring the availability of EMNC equipment and supplies, strengthening the clinical training sites in infection
prevention and EMNC service provision, and supporting updated faculty and service providers to train additional staff at
these sites.
In collaboration with local and international partners and stakeholders, ACCESS is establishing a health
center-based apprenticeship program for HEWs to improve their skills in safe and clean delivery, postpartum care, and
referral of complications. Through the Ethiopian Nurse-Midwives Association (ENMA), ACCESS is strengthening selected health
centers in the Oromia Region to become training centers for HEW refresher training in maternal and newborn health services.
These training centers will support the training of HEWs in their catchment areas as well as neighboring woredas.
ACCESS and the ENMA will strengthen the skills of health center-based midwives and maternal and child health
nurses to train HEWs in EMNC, prevention and treatment of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and other HIV-related counseling
skills, as well as in appropriate infection prevention (IP) practices. In addition, ACCESS works to strengthen referral
linkages for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, and referrals for maternal and newborn emergency care.
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