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Table 4 Percentage of women age 15–49 who reported that they have serious problems in accessing health care for themselves when they are sick, by type of problem in the 14 countries* that were validated for maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination during 2011 –2020 and had a Demographic and Heath Survey (DHS) conducted post-MNTE validation

From: Sustaining Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE) in countries that have been validated for elimination – progress and challenges

Country

Getting permission to go for treatment

Getting money for treatment

Health facility too distant

Not wanting to go alone

At least one problem accessing health care

Cambodia

21%

64%

35%

45%

75%

Cameroon

35%

67%

40%

28%

72%

Ethiopia

32%

55%

50%

42%

70%

Ghana

7%

48%

24%

14%

57%

Haiti

9%

73%

37%

20%

78%

India

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

Indonesia

6%

15%

11%

26%

36%

Liberia

14%

36%

28%

19%

45%

Philippines

9%

45%

22%

21%

54%

Senegal

12%

43%

21%

13%

52%

Sierra Leone

24%

67%

44%

22%

72%

Tanzania

14%

50%

42%

30%

66%

Timor-Leste

35%

38%

46%

41%

60%

Uganda

5%

45%

37%

21%

59%

  1. Data source: Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) https://dhsprogram.com/ [13] MNTE: maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination* The preliminary report of the 2019/2020 DHS for Mauritania (Mauritanie Enquête Démographique et de Santé (EDS) 2019–2020 [PR125] (dhsprogram.com), the only post-validation DHS does not include information on problems accessing health care
  2. ND No data