Commitment title:

Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive approach towards the essential package for sexual and reproductive health

Commitment description:

Increase the proportion of women with access to antenatal care from 93 per cent to 100 per cent, focusing particularly on adolescent girls and young girls, while ensuring the availability of qualified staff by 2022; Increase the proportion of childbirths attended by qualified staff from 92 per cent to 100 per cent by 2022; Increase the coverage rate of health facilities providing BEmONC and CEmONC by 20 per cent by 2022;

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Augmentant le nombre de femmes ayant accès à la CPN ; Augmenter le taux d’accouchements assistés par un personnel qualifié ; Augmenter le taux de couverture des formations sanitaires en SONUB et SONUC;
Commitment to be actioned in: Congo
Submitted from: Congo
Submitted by
Ministère de la Santé, de la Population, de la promotion de la Femme et de l'Intégration de la Femme au développement
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.