Some of South Africa’s MNH Acceleration Plan priorities include:

• Improve demand generation and quality of antenatal care services through targeting the communities with low antenatal care coverage and offering basic antenatal care training to clinicians.
• Support the roll-out of the new sexual and reproductive health policy targeting adolescent girls in and out of school to enhance their health seeking behaviours.
• Conduct a profiling exercise on the needs of maternal, newborn and child health patients who have heightened vulnerability, special needs and require dedicated attention to optimal supportive care, with granular data for targeted interventions.
• Leverage Ward-based Primary Healthcare Outreach Teams (WBPHCOTs) to improve coverage of antenatal and postnatal care and identify and refer vulnerable pregnant women.
• Advocate for additional and ring-fenced budget for maternal and newborn health, e.g. conditional grant.
• Develop essential and compulsory continuous professional development for the maternal health care workforce.
• Adopt the new updated essential newborn care training tools.
• Establish the mother-baby pair data systems.