New Global Health Technical Briefs published on service provision, FGC, breastfeeding
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Looking for technical overviews on health? Global Health Technical Briefs summarize the most important information on a timely reproductive health topic in two pages, and pinpoint the implications for public health programs.
Four new Global Health Technical Briefs are now available at www.maqweb.org:
Global Health Technical Briefs: Checklists Reduce Medical Barriers to
Contraceptive Use
HTML: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb29checklist.shtml
PDF: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb29checklist.pdf
Medical barriers often prevent clients from using their desired method of family planning. Using checklists for determining pregnancy and eligibility for oral contraceptives, injectables, and the IUD can effectively increase access to family planning while helping ensure client safety.
Global Health Technical Briefs: Five Simple Ways to Improve Oral Contraceptive Provision and Use
HTML: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb30oc.shtml
PDF: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb30oc.pdf
Providers can employ five simple strategies to reduce medical barriers to oral contraceptive provision resulting in faster and safer delivery, and improved counseling and use of OCs.
Global Health Technical Briefs: Accelerating the Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: Community Change to Support Human Rights
HTML: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb31fgc.shtml
PDF: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb31fgc.pdf
Female genital cutting affects an estimated 130 million girls and women, mainly in Africa, and often leads to serious health problems. Community-based approaches to accelerating abandonment of FGC have the best chance of achieving sustainable change.
Global Health Technical Briefs: Helping Women with HIV Decide About Breastfeeding: What Family Planning Programs Can Do
HTML: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb32breastfeeding.shtml
PDF: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb32breastfeeding.pdf
The mistaken belief that all mothers with HIV will pass HIV to their infants through breastfeeding has overshadowed the health and life-saving benefits of breastfeeding. Program managers can help ensure that family planning providers are taught the facts about HIV and breastfeeding and taught how to help women with HIV weigh the various risks in deciding whether to breastfeed.
New Global Health Technical Briefs are posted regularly on MAQWeb at http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/index.shtml. Currently, the site offers 32 technical briefs on Family Planning, Healthcare Programming, Maternal and Child Health, and Malaria. The INFO Project produces Global Health Technical Briefs for the Maximizing Access and Quality Initiative.
To suggest a topic, e-mail Rushna Ravji, USAID, at mailto:rravji@usaid.gov.
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Theresa C. Norton
Associate Editor, INFO Project
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
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Baltimore, MD 21202
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