With a focus on countries in the Global South, this infographic series illustrates: how COVID-19 has affected access to essential health services for women; how responses have exacerbated gender inequities in access to essential health services; and what practices and approaches countries have used to mitigate negative impacts.
Recently, there has been an increase in vaccine hesitancy in low and middle income countries (LMICs) due to safety concerns and long-term effects. With this skepticism, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases that were once thought mostly eradicated such as measles, pertussis and diphtheria, have increased in frequency around the world.
This guidance has been developed to provide a starting point for multi-actor efforts and actions to address quality of care in the most challenging settings. This includes practical approaches to action planning and implementation of a contextualized set of quality interventions.
The training guidance was prepared for the staff of ADRA Yemen who use it to train community health volunteers (CHV), hygiene volunteers, agriculture extension workers and other people who promote ADRA’s priority behaviors. It is based on the very useful Make Me a Change Agent guide, its recent update Make Me a Change Agent: An SBC Resource for WASH, Agriculture and Livelihoods Activities, the consultant’s SBC experience and pre-testing conducted in Yemen.
Le guide de facilitation des rencontres d'orientation des communautés est mis en place pour les équipes de Mobilisation Communautaire (MC) prêtes à déployer leur plan de mobilisation communautaire. Pour une large participation et un engagement de la communauté dans les activités, les équipes de MC auront besoin d’effectuer un certain nombre de rencontres de présentation et d'orientation avant d'entreprendre une analyse de base.
This webinar was the third part of a three-part series, Vaccination Misinformation Control and Prevention. The webinar was held in December 2020. This page offers the presentations and recording from the webinar.
Quality FP services entail meeting the reproductive health needs of the individuals and couples using the Bruce Jain Quality Improvement (QI) framework. This framework is made up of six elements, relevant to improving the quality of care in family planning services.
Access to quality and affordable Family planning {FP) services is crucial in improving Maternal and Child health (MCH) indices in Nigeria. High quality FP services is a key determinant of contraceptive uptake, and availability of a full range of commodities enables a woman to make an informed decision and increases contraceptive uptake and continuation.
In-clinic mobilization is an activity conducted in the health facility during antenatal, post-natal and immunization clinics to increase family planning use by reaching women and couples with family planning information and messages during pregnancy and after delivery.
This document explains the importance of step-down training on FP services to reduce the workload of skilled health workers and to meet the FP needs of their clients.
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