This is a resource for trainers developing in-service training for facility-based healthcare providers and CHWs who already have some basic experience with reproductive health and family planning. It is a reference guide to be used by trainers and can be adapted depending on whether trainees are facility-based or community-based. This training will enable providers to … [Read more...] about Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy: A Trainer’s Reference Guide
Reproductive Health/Family Planning
Women on the Front Lines of Health Care: State of the World’s Mothers 2010
The focus of this report is on the critical shortage of health workers in the developing world and the urgent need for more female health workers to save the lives of mothers, newborn babies, and young children. This report identifies countries that have invested in training and deploying more female health workers, shows how these women are delivering lifesaving health care to … [Read more...] about Women on the Front Lines of Health Care: State of the World’s Mothers 2010
Malawi: Distribution of DMPA at the Community Level- Lessons Learned
In 2008, Malawi piloted the distribution of the injectable contraceptive DMPA by Health Surveillance Assistants. This report presents lessons learned, during the initial training and implementation roll-out, which will be valuable for other countries planning similar community-based distribution systems. The report pays particular attention to the supply chain implications of … [Read more...] about Malawi: Distribution of DMPA at the Community Level- Lessons Learned
Taking Critical Services to the Home: Scaling-up Home-based Maternal and Postnatal Care, including Family Planning, through Community Midwifery in Kenya
In Kenya, with USAID support, the Population Council's FRONTIERS in Reproductive Health project supported the scale up of a model that enabled women to give birth at home or to be referred to a hospital when attended by a self-employed skilled midwife living in the community. This report describes the project and provides recommendations on skills development for the community … [Read more...] about Taking Critical Services to the Home: Scaling-up Home-based Maternal and Postnatal Care, including Family Planning, through Community Midwifery in Kenya
Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: the Navrongo experiment in Ghana
This article compares the demographic and health impact of deploying health service nurses and volunteers in village locations. The authors found that assigning nurses to community locations to provide basic curative and preventive care substantially reduced childhood mortality and accelerates progress towards attainment of the child survival MDG. Approaches using community … [Read more...] about Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: the Navrongo experiment in Ghana