Our Activities

Activities with direct Impact

Through a variety of activities, we serve specific maternal and infant health needs throughout Uganda Addressing the maternal and infant health crisis is not straightforward with one solution. It takes a combination of strategic and collaborative efforts in different areas to truly impact change to moms, babies and families every day.

Raising Awareness

Raising awareness and increasing our impact is what our network strives to take action on. Our efforts are around making media rounds on radio, Television and social media sharing knowledge on prematurity, caring for a preterm baby, hygiene, and pregnancy related conditions like pre-eclampsia, post discharge home care for preterm among others. We aim to inform, empower and support parents and caregivers of preterm babies, families, parent’s groups, medical experts, educators, political decision-makers and many more.

Creating and managing Parents support groups

Many mothers face challenges after leaving the hospital because preterm babies have low immunity and get complications any time. This leaves the mother desperate for immediate counsel in case any issues raise up. Because of this, we created the parent support groups where mothers can share and support each other; In addition, there is a medical expert on the group to give professional advice. They advise the mothers whose preterm babies are experiencing conditions that need urgent attention and require visiting a health care facility.

Training

Preterm Infant Parents Network Uganda organizes a number of trainings to give parents, caregivers, and health workers a better understanding of what prematurity is, together with the knowledge and skills, they need to care for a preterm baby. This improves their confidence in caring for preterm babies, which positively influences the baby’s chances at good health and a normal life. We do post discharge trainings, KMC training, lifesaving actions, nutrition and feeding among others.

Preterm home care follows up.

Our network has a database of new preterm mothers generated from our post discharge trainings and outreach programs, who we follow up on by contacting them about the progress and wellbeing of the preterm baby. In case the preterm baby developed any complication, we document and link the mother or caregiver to the relevant specialist so that immediate action starts towards the young one getting better with treatment.

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