Reinforce Basic Health Services Activity

USAID supports the GoTL MOH improve reproductive, maternal, and newborn health outcomes, enhancing the skills of the MOH health workers. Covalima Municipality is the model for improvements in the provision of health services.

Assistance improves health worker skills in maternal and newborn care through structured training and coaching, the quality of customer service and marketing to enhance communitiy awareness and utilization of services, establish a clinical training center for certification linked to the human resource management system, recording individual health worker professional development, deliver a full range of Family Planning (FP) and sexual and reproductive health services in targeted facilities, and work with communities to create demand for FP and maternal and child health services with health promotion and education tools such as a pre-conception care, and encourage men to support and accept their families' utilization of available health services.