Activities

• Organizing TBA training
• Organizing TBA workshop
• Provision of TBA supplies and maternity kits
• Introduction of family planning methods on child spacing

The Maternal and Child Health Program is not currently delivered in Mon (1) and (2) field areas, though it is delivered in the Karenni area. During these six months 20 new TBAs have received their initial training. Fifty TBA Follow-up Workshops were held throughout the fields and 518 TBAs attended these Follow-up Workshops.

At least 1,774 babies were delivered during the first six months of 2007, though sadly 65 were still-births or abortions and 46 of these babies died during the neo-natal period. There were also 17 maternal deaths during this period. Only around fifty percent of MCHP data sheets that are sent to the field with the TBA supplies are returned, as many TBAs have low literacy levels and some are afraid to keep documentation in case they are caught by the SPDC. The Kawkareik field was not able to return data this six month period and the Lahu field did not return data about maternal and child births and deaths.