Resource Type: Research paper or report
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Building a Palliative Care Program in Ethiopia: The Impact on HIV and AIDS Patients and Their Families
July 2010 – Home – and community-based care in Ethiopia implements palliative care through the continuum of care in 14 major cities with links to local health facilities. Community support through traditional burial societies (idirs) makes it possible for the program to provide holistic care to people living with HIV (PLHIV) and their family members. The…
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From Burial Societies to Mutual Aid Organizations: The Role of Idirs — Traditional Burial Societies in Ethiopia — In Ensuring Community-Level Care and Protection of Vulnerable Children
March 2012 – From 2004 through 2009, Family Health International engaged 270 Idirs—traditional burial societies—in Ethiopia’s fight against HIV and AIDS, which required the Idirs to change from only supporting death and mourning ceremonies to also supporting the living via mutual aid. Results show that more than 126,000 children received services and that these Idirs…
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EQUIP 3 Brief — Community YouthMapping
Community YouthMapping is a youth-centered participatory development strategy that engages young people and adults in canvassing their communities to document community-based resources, needs, and opportunities. Seeing the community through the eyes of young people is, to many, a more comprehensive assessment of what a community has to offer. This is a tool designing Community YouthMapping…
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Preventing Unintended Pregnancy Among Young Women in Kenya: Prospective Cohort Study to Offer Contraceptive Implants
May 2012
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An Evaluation of the Government of India’s Initiative on Contraceptives at the Doorstep by Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)
2012 — An evaluation of a pilot project to improve contraceptive access via community health workers in India has found the initiative to be promising, as 86 percent of the health workers said it would work in the long term and 75 percent of female beneficiaries were satisfied. The full report of the initiative, which addresses issues…
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Feasibility of Providing Family Planning Services Through an Agricultural Cooperative Field Day
February 2012 – The Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project has demonstrated the feasibility of using non-health institutions to improve access to family planning and community health services in rural areas of Kenya. Seven field-day health camps organized by FHI 360 with agricultural cooperatives supported by Land O’Lakes International Development offered a convenient and free channel…
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IUCD Post-training Evaluation
May 2012 — In collaboration with FHI 360’s Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project, Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health conducted a post-training evaluation in 37 woredas where providers had been trained by Ipas, Marie Stopes International Ethiopia, and EngenderHealth to deliver intrauterine device (IUD) services. Results of the evaluation, which determined the extent of IUD…
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2012 Comprehensive Family Planning Training Evaluation Report (Ethiopia)
November 2012 – With support from FHI 360’s Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project, FHI 360 researchers and independent consultants evaluated a group of comprehensive family planning trainings that were conducted by the Integrated Family Health Program (IFHP) in Ethiopia. This report describes the success of the trainings as well as weakness that need to…
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A Situation Analysis of Family Planning in Ethiopia: Full Report
October 2012 — This report describes the results of a situation analysis conducted by Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health, with support from FHI 360’s Program Research for Strengthening Services (PROGRESS) project, to assess the readiness of the health system to expand the delivery of family planning services in select sites. Information on the capacity to provide long-acting…
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Quality Improvement Stories: Improving the System of Care for Malnourished Children Infected with HIV in Delhi, India
March 2012 — Under the Strengthening Abilities to Manage and Respond Effectively to HIV/AIDS (SAMARTH) project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, FHI 360 and a Delhi-based nongovernmental organization, Women’s Action Group (WAG) CHELSEA, worked together to address malnutrition among children with HIV. Using a quality improvement framework and community-based approach, the project treated…