Transforming Health Facilities into Mother-Baby Friendly Centers: Experience of World Vision, East African Maternal Newborn and Child Health Project in Kitgum District, Uganda, 2016
The Baby Friendly Health facility Initiative (BFHI)
is a health care environment which supports, protects and promotes
breastfeeding as a norm. The World Vision Uganda East African Maternal Newborn
and Child Health (EAMNCH) project supported its implementation with a focus on
the Transformation of 24 health facilities into Mother-Baby Friendly in Kitgum
district. Four (4) out of twelve (12) health facilities that participated in the
external assessment scored 75% and above, and this is the required minimum
score for a health facility to be certified as Baby Friendly. The four are: St
Joseph’s Hospital (81%), Orom HCiii (75%), Loborom HCiii (75%), and Akilok
HCiii (75%). From the findings, it’s recommended that health facilities should
actively engage the Village Health Teams (VHTs) in their catchment areas to
strengthen Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) community support to
strengthen community-health facility linkages.
Cite this paper
Geoffrey, B. , Benon, M. , Barungi, L. M. , Tumuhameho, A. , Florence, T. and Rwegyema, T. (2016). Transforming Health Facilities into Mother-Baby Friendly Centers: Experience of World Vision, East African Maternal Newborn and Child Health Project in Kitgum District, Uganda, 2016. Open Access Library Journal, 3, e3180. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1103180.
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