By Roger Nokes | Communications Manager
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, continues to work with international, national, and local partners to rebuild health systems devastated by the Ebola outbreak in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
In July, UNFPA began work with regional partners to address issues that transcend national boundaries related to maternal health, including access to skilled birth attendants, family planning, adolescent sexual reproductive health, obstetric fistula, and HIV/AIDS services.
UNFPA has continued to recruit and deploy midwives to health facilities and has supplied delivery beds, examination tables and infection prevention and control materials across the region. Particular attention has been paid to Grand Cape Mount County in Liberia, which borders Sierra Leone and was one of the hardest hit counties. With a population of about 127,000, the county has only 33 health facilities and 22 midwives. UNFPA is also working with traditional birth attendants to integrate them into health facilities in order to bolster health care workforces.
UNFPA also launched a campaign aiming to reach 1.5 million people to enable access to condoms and related information. Because the Ebola virus can be sexually transmitted many months after the onset of symptoms, condom use is strongly recommended to prevent spread of the disease. The UNFPA campaign emphasizes the role of condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections, including Ebola and HIV, and in preventing unintended pregnancies.
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