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Home » Innovations » 1807-12142

Using Cooperatives to Improve Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Among South Sudanese Refugees and their Host Communities in Uganda

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Start Date: 31/03/2018- End Date: 30/09/2019


Project Lead(s): Odwa Atari

This intervention aims to promote health education and services for South Sudanese refugees in Ugandan camps. The goals include providing access to a cooperative store, community health workers, health products and services; information on gender equality, gender-based violence, sexually transmitted infections, and mental health; and reducing acute child malnutrition by at least 2% (from 9.4%), anemia among refugee children to 30% (from 40%); and the number of South Sudanese refugee children in need of mental health care to 55% (from 60%).

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  • Innovation Overview
    Program

    Stars in Global Health

    Institution

    Nipissing University

    Institution Country

    Canada

    Implementation Country

    Uganda

    Implementation Region

    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Priority

    Displacement, Economic, Maternal Conditions, Reproductive Health, Social Justice, Traumatic Context

    Platform

    Behaviour Change Communication, Community Health Worker Training, Mobile health delivery system, Social Franchise

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