Many maternal and child health programs want to add family planning (counseling, referrals or even services) into their programs. Many health program and government staff would like to get the skills needed for this process—but time and resources are not available for a week(s) long training.This curriculum can share these useful skills without requiring a lot of time or … [Read more...] about Social and Behavioral Change for Family Planning
Reproductive Health/Family Planning
Community-Based Care and Support within the APHIA II Nyanza project
APHIA (AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance) is a USAID-financed program in Kenya that works with the Ministry of Health and faith-based and community-based organizations to reduce the risk of HIV transmission and the fertility rate in Nyanza. Specifically, the project focuses on improving and expanding facility-based HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, reproductive health, … [Read more...] about Community-Based Care and Support within the APHIA II Nyanza project
Community-Based Access to Injectables: An Advocacy Guide
This advocacy guide offers a strategy to facilitate the adoption of injectable contraceptives into CHW health service delivery programs. It expands on six steps that advocates can take to push for a policy change that would allow CHWs to provide injectables. … [Read more...] about Community-Based Access to Injectables: An Advocacy Guide
Community-Based Health Workers Can Safely and Effectively Administer Injectable Contraceptives
In an effort to inform future policies and programs, WHO, USAID, and Family Health International (FHI) convened a consultation group on injectable contraceptives and CHWs. The report concludes that CHWs, given appropriate training, can provide contraceptive injectables effectively and that the expanded use of injectable contraceptives by CHWs will provide underserved … [Read more...] about Community-Based Health Workers Can Safely and Effectively Administer Injectable Contraceptives
Reproductive Health Manual for Trainers of Community Health Workers
This Reproductive Health Manual for Trainers of CHWs was developed by CEDPA to help organizations that provide reproductive health services through the community-based distribution approach, to train their CHWs in reproductive health. The training manual is based on the premise that reproductive health is a fundamental human right and stresses that informed choice, quality of … [Read more...] about Reproductive Health Manual for Trainers of Community Health Workers