Prenatal Care Program

A woman’s chances of dying from a pregnancy related complication or during childbirth in Uganda are 1 in 49 (compared to 1 in 2,400 in the U.S.).

· As of 2019, Asteroidea is covering 100% of the antenatal care that NUMEM provides to pregnant women. Remarkably, NUMEM provides this care at no cost to women.

· Asteroidea covers the costs of Maama Kits for every pregnant woman. Such a kit is often required of the patient to bring to the delivery facility and includes 2 pairs of medical gloves, 2 new razor blades (to cut the umbilical cord), 1 bar of soap, 2 gauze pads for cleaning the eyes of the newborn, 8 sanitary towels, 9 oz. of cotton wool, 1 polyethylene sheet on which the mother gives birth, and 1 suction bulb to clean the baby’s airway.

Since the start of the Antenatal Program July 2018, a total of over 300 pregnant women have received full prenatal care coverage and Maama’s Kits.

***As of November 2020, we have made the difficult decision of temporarily pausing the subsidy program. As many organizations, particularly non-profit organizations, have been impacted by the challenges of fundraising during the COVID-19 pandemic, Asteroidea too has also been impacted significantly, forcing us to scale back our current fundraising efforts. We continue to remain in close touch with our Ugandan partners at NUMEM Health Centre, and are actively working on ways to continue to support their efforts, with the hopes of reinstating this program in the near future.