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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH

Rotary supports activities and training to improve maternal health and reduce mortality for children
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under five. Projects strengthen the health care system by improving access to and expanding medical
services, providing medical equipment, and training health care personnel.

Area of Focus Statement of Purpose and Goals

TRF enables Rotarians to improve the health of mothers and their children by:

1. Reducing the neonatal and newborn mortality rate
2. Reducing the mortality and morbidity rate of children under five

3. Reducing the maternal mortality and morbidity rate

4. Improving access to essential medical services, trained community health workers, and health
care providers

5. Funding graduate scholarships for career-minded professionals related to maternal and child
health

Parameters for Eligibility

TRF considers the following activities to be within the scope of the maternal and child health area of
focus:

1. Maternal prenatal, delivery, and antenatal care
2. Training or “train the trainer” initiatives for maternal and child community health care workers
and medical professionals

3. Projects that provide medical equipment to health care facilities. Equipment must meet current
technology standards and satisfy environmental criteria for power, water, and air quality. Grant
sponsors must provide proof of ownership and operational and maintenance plans, including
documentation showing that personnel received training on equipment operation and
maintenance, or a training plan that ensures compliance. Equipment projects must include
educational activities for women related to healthy pregnancy, delivery, or neonatal care.

4. Education about and enhanced access to family planning and other sexual and reproductive
health interventions and services available through the health care system
5. Immunizations for women, adolescent girls, and children under five

6. Interventions to combat pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and other major causes of
disease in women and children under five
7. Interventions to reduce the transmission and impact of sexually transmitted disease in
adolescents and women

4 A health care system includes both the public and private sectors engaged in the delivery of health care services.

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