Comparative Services Provided By Government and NGO

Running head: COMPARATIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENT AND NGO
COMPARATIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENT AND NGO
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COMPARATIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENT AND NGO
Unmet health needs
More than a millions of female aged 15-50 years face mortality every year from
pregnancy associated conditions across the world. One of the main factors related to the
unaddressed health needs for the contraception and the reproductive health facilities. The
unaddressed reproductive health care needs exists if there is any gap between the apparent need
and the recent choices that are available for satisfying the needs (Ayanore, Pavlova & Groot,
2015). The unmet reproductive health needs includes the contraceptive service use, obstetric care
and the antenatal care utilization. About 200 million women falls under the unmet requirements
for contraceptives. Hence, women often seek to abortion if they face any unintended pregnancy.
Regarding the antenatal care the need for post as well as antenatal care had been increasing day
by day. The situation is alarming, especially in the Sub-Saharan African region (SSA). SSA is
evidenced to have the highest rate of unmet reproductive health needs of women. Also SSA
accounts for about 24% of the global burden of disease. This area faces from meager maternal
and reproductive health (WHO, 2015).
NGO working in that area
World health organization (WHO) have taken several initiatives like Sexual and
Reproductive `health (SRH) program in the WHO Africa region, with the aim of strengthening
the capacity of the member States in the Region for an accelerated action.
One such initiative is to advocate for the women and girls, especially those from the
disadvantaged background. The NUWODU program in `Uganda provides advocacy for women,
promote health literacy like HIV screening, cervical cancer screening.

COMPARATIVE SERVICES PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENT AND NGO
Another strategy involve development of programs and policies for the reduction of
unsafe abortion and improve access to safe abortion and high quality of care after abortion
(WHO, 2018).
WHO carries out several campaigns for health literacy for people residing in the SSA
region. These health campaign provides health literacy about the use of contraceptives and its
safe use by consultation with the doctor. WHO collaborates with some local NGOs to provide
mobile health checkups (WHO et al., 2018). The babies are assessed for their health and
provided with recommendations and sometimes important referrals.
Comparison between the service provided by WHO and local government
In spite of the efforts and the initiatives taken by up by the African government, in
addressing the unmet reproductive needs of women, women residing in Africa faced a range of
threats to their health throughout their lives. The government’s initiative for spreading education
among the girls. The small scale health campaigns that are set up are not sufficient enough to
combat the growing needs of children. Women residing in the remote areas do not get access to
the antenatal and post natal care programs meant for the women. No initiative has been taken for
screening for HIV in pregnant women. The high unmet sexual needs of women, especially young
women underscores the urgent requirement to take a multisectoral approach to what is truly a
multisectoral approaches (Wulifan et al., 2018|). Skilled attendance at the time of birth is known
to be important for both the survival of the mother as well as the new borne, but in most of the
cases the African women do not get access to skilled health care attendance at the time of birth.
The same is true for the post-partum care that is required to treat infections and other conditions
in the post-partum period (Ayanore, 2017). Not much initiative has been taken up by the