Resource Type: Research paper or report
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USAID Community Care Program Baseline Survey Report
January 2013 – Under the USAID Community Care Program (CCP), FHI 360 conducted a baseline assessment of communities and their interactions with health care services to assist CCP in further understanding the health services needed by the communities served.
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Integrated Behavioral Biological Surveillance 2009 (Laos)
2009 — This document presents survey result from a behavioral risk survey of HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among female sex workers in six “hot spot” provinces of Laos — areas with consistently higher HIV/STI prevalence.
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A Field Assessment of Adoption of Improved Cookstove Practices in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Focus on Structural Drivers
April 2012 — FHI 360 and Yayasan Dian Desa, an Indonesian organization, conducted a field assessment in two villages where improved cookstove technology had been introduced, but where adoption of the technology differed. The assessment identifies both the social drivers that facilitated adoption of improved cookstoves and factors that inhibited their use.
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Report of a Stakeholder Consultation: Expanding Contraceptive Choices in India
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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…