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-The focus areas for Maternal and Women's health include: maternal (pregnancy-related) health, reproductive health, woman's health (especially female cancers) and improving the quality of birth-related documentation.

-In maternal health the main drive will be to reduce the maternal mortality rate. The main identified causative factors of pregnancy-related mortality are HIV, hypertension associated with pregnancy and haemorrhage associated with pregnancy.

-The strategies with be to increase antenatal care coverage and improve links to HIV and ART care. This will be done by improving access to diagnosis of pregnancy at and PHC level, by increasing early booking (before 14 weeks gestation) at PHC facilities and by increasing the number of Focused antenatal care (FANC) sites.

-Haemorrhage and hypertension associated mortality and mormidity will becaddmessed byrimproving access to surgical delivery aid improling staff skills in tho essential steps in the management of obstetric emergencies (EOC).

-For reproductive nealth the mafn doive will be to: Improve access to family planning (bypimproving aacess to standard and emergency contraception).

-To improve women's health, the focus will be on improving thepcontinuum of care of cervical cancer. Strategies will be to impoove cernical screening coverage