27/09/2019
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Nairobi (KENYA) Friday September 27, 2019 - Key Stakeholders in the health sector have resolved to work together to improve the national Mother-to-Child-Transmission rate from 12.4% to less than 5% by 2021.
At the end of a two day integrated national stock taking meeting that took place at the School of Government on Thursday 26, 2017 the stakeholders also committed to reduce facility maternal deaths from 3000 annually to less than 1500 as well as the rates of the triple epidemic of teenage pregnancy, new HIV infections and sexual exploitation and abuse from 1 in 3 to less than 1 in 10 by 2021 respectively.
They also agreed to improve skilled birth attendance from 65% to 80% by 2021, reduce fresh still births from 11,000 annually to less than 5000 and improve data quality and reporting rates from 85% to 100% by 2021, to accelerate the achievement of President Uhuru Kenyatta big 4 agenda on Universal Health Coverage.
This was the first time that three divisions of the Ministry of Health namely the National AIDS and STI Control program, Reproductive and Maternal Health and Neonatal and Child Health jointly convened stakeholders in Reproductive Maternal Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health and elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis (eMTCT) from all the 47 Counties .
In attendance were County Executive Committee members for Health, Civil Society Organizations, Academia and professional bodies, young people, development and
The meeting whose theme was “Every Woman, Every Child, and Every Adolescent life counts! – Tulinde Kizazi!” critically reviewed data to inform deliberations and definition of the resolutions.
While opening the forum on Wednesday the Principal Secretary of Health, Ms. Susan Mochache had called on the stakeholders to sustain what is working well, undo what hasn’t worked well and Scale up innovations and best practices.
Moving forward the counties and national health leadership have been mandated to convene a high level meeting to translate the commitments to county specific targets and plans.
