Figures & Tables
Figures
Consultations with community members helped shape the design of the pilot community-based service delivery program.
- Figure 1.
Number of Health Post Visits per 100 Population, Kadawawa Intervention Community (Before and During the Intervention) and Kafin Baka Control Community, Northern Nigeria
- Figure 2.
Antenatal Care Attendance Rates per 100 Pregnant Women, Kadawawa Intervention Community (Before and During the Intervention) and Kafin Baka Control Community, Northern Nigeria
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Number of Facility-Based Deliveries by Skilled Birth Attendants, Kadawawa Intervention Community (Before and During the Intervention) and Kafin Baka Control Community, Northern Nigeria
“Gender-sensitive” motorcycles that did not expose women's legs while riding were approved by traditional rulers for use by the female community health workers.
Tables
- Table 1. Selected Demographic Characteristics for Kadawawa (Intervention) and Kafin Baka (Control) Communities in Nigeria at Baseline
No. (%) Kadawawa Kafin Baka Population 15,954 6,748 Population under 1 year old 638 (4%) 270 (4%) Women of reproductive age 2,712 (17%) 1,485 (22%) Pregnancies at any given time 789 (5%) 337 (5%) Theme Findings Barriers hindering pregnant women from accessing health care • Women have to seek approval from an authority figure to access health care. • Weak women were perceived to deliver at the hospital and strong women at home. • Community members lacked knowledge about pregnancy danger signs. Barriers at the community health facility level • Poorly equipped health facilities: “We have to give birth on cement floors because there is only one bed …” • Limited access to drugs: “We need medicines, we need our hospitals to be repaired …” • Limited access to health personnel, especially female personnel: “The male CHEWs are afraid of touching us …”; “[Female CHEWs] should be available in the facility at all times, not coming from time to time …” • No emergency transport to Jahun General Hospital: “The roads are bad and the hospital a long distance away … transportation is too high [costly] and if the only available car has gone to the market, that is all …” Barriers at the referral facility level • Perceived negative outcomes to delivering at Jahun General Hospital: “If CHEWs referred us to Jahun General Hospital, we will not really be happy to hear that …” • Feeling insulted and harassed by staff at Jahun General Hospital: “They ignore us and call us villagers …”
