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International Midwife Assistance (IMA) funds a Community Based Organization in Soroti, Uganda - The Teso Safe Motherhood Project (TSMP).

TSMP runs a health clinic/birth center for the most marginalized and vulnerable populations in and around the northeastern town of Soroti.

Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have moved through squalid “IDP camps” around Soroti and are now struggling to relocate and rebuild their lives after having lost everything in a brutal civil war. Thousands of impoverished people, mostly women and children, have little or no access to basic medical care. They live in grass thatched huts with dirt floors. They don’t have access to safe water, and their subsistence agriculture has been disrupted by a drought-flood cycle. Sanitation is a serious concern, and malaria is the biggest problem of all. Malnutrition leads to anemia and other diseases caused by living in poverty.

Through the TSMP clinic, IMA offers general medical care, prenatal, vaccination, family planning services and a birth center, to help the poorest of the poor in the Teso region of Uganda.

IMA midwives help local practitioners provide quality prenatal and birth services, as well as general medical care, to increasing numbers of men, women and children from surrounding poor communities. Through these services, women receive the assistance they need to help ensure safe, healthy pregnancies. The clinic staff also conducts weekly mobile outreach clinics to remote rural areas.

Our birth center allows us to offer special assistance to women during childbirth, increasing the capacity to ensure safe delivery and quick and efficient response to complications during childbirth. Feasible low-cost health interventions are all that is needed to save countless lives of women and babies in Uganda.