CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS.

1. Service Delivery: Ensuring quality and accessible Maternal, Newborn, and Adolescent Health services.

• Improving quality of care for maternal, newborn, and adolescent health services
• Strengthening referral systems for emergency obstetric and newborn care
• Expanding community-based maternal, newborn, and adolescent healthcare models

2. Health Workforce: Enhancing human resource capacity for safe motherhood

• Addressing workforce shortages and improving retention
• Strengthening community health worker models for maternal and newborn care
• Training and capacity building

3. Health Financing: Sustainable investment in maternal, newborn, and adolescent health

• Strengthening domestic resource mobilization
• Enhancing financial efficiency and accountability
• Mitigating the impact of external funding reductions on essential maternal services
• Alternative health financing models

4. Health Information system: Strengthening data for Decision-Making

• Improving maternal and Perinatal Death surveillance and response systems
• Leveraging digital health and real-time data for maternal and newborn health monitoring
• Enhancing health management information system for evidence-based policy making

5. Medical products, vaccines, and Technologies: Innovations for Maternal and Newborn care

• Utilizing digital innovations and telemedicine
• Strengthening supply chain management
• Expanding access to essential commodities and life-saving medicines

6. Leadership and Governance: Strengthening accountability

• Strengthening community engagement and social accountability mechanisms
• Enhancing policy implementation and enforcement
• Improving coordination among government, private sector, and development partners
• Improving functionality and accountability through the local maternity and neonatal systems

7. Family planning: A key pillar for safe motherhood

• Expanding access to quality and equitable family planning services
• Strengthening community engagement and male involvement
• Leveraging innovation and digital health solutions for FP service delivery.

8. Harnessing Multisectoral engagement to strengthen community health for safe motherhood

• Tackling poverty, gender inequality, education, and cultural barriers that impact maternal, child, and adolescent health outcomes.
• Role of community health workers in bridging the gap between health facilities and communities
• Strategies for reducing maternal and newborn mortality through cross-sector partnerships
• Community engagement and ownership

Abstracts

We shall receive two types of Abstracts:

1. Program Abstracts: Program description submission must use structured abstract format and include Background, Description, and Conclusions.
2. Research Abstracts: Research submissions Must use structured abstract format and include: Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

What Must be Included in the Program Abstract submission?

• Submission MUST include the author/main contact, background, and description sections of the structured abstract.
• Titles and abstracts will not be formatted or edited. It is your responsibility to check for correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. You will be judged in the review process on the professionalism of your submitted abstract.
• The background section: should include program objectives and/or purpose, background description and setting.
• The description section: should include the process of developing, implementing, and evaluating your new service, program, or initiative
• The conclusions section: If your program has already been completed, enter your outcomes at this time. Otherwise, include outcomes of the program you expect to measure.

What Must be Included in the Research Abstract submission?

• Submission MUST include the author/main contact, objective, and methods sections of the structured abstract.
• Titles and abstracts will not be formatted or edited. It is your responsibility to check for correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. You will be judged in the review process on the professionalism of your submitted abstract.
• The objective section (for which you may substitute the research question). Should have a brief background and Objectives for the study
• The methods section: should describe your methods in sufficient detail (include the design, setting, population, intervention, and exposure as appropriate) so the peer reviewers can evaluate your submission adequately.
• The results section: enter results and conclusions if completed. Authors should share any available information about your results at the time of submission, such as how the approach to analysis (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, etc.) will inform conclusions.
• The conclusions section: enter conclusions if completed. Authors should share any available information about conclusions at the time of submission, such as trends you have noticed in this field will inform conclusions.
• The Abstracts should not contain tables, figures, or references.

A submission link will be used in receiving the abstracts. Deadline of Abstract submission: 15^th July 2025 before 2359hrs EAT.

Abstracts will be reviewed after closure of submission and a notification email about the status of your abstract (accepted or declined) will be sent on or before 22^nd August 2025. If the submitting author wouldn’t have received the notification email by 29^th September, please contact nsmc.moh@gmail.com or call on +256 755 260763.

Accepted abstracts will be categorized into oral and poster presentations. Authors with accepted abstracts will be notified by email the type of accepted presentation for their abstract.