New Global Health Technical Briefs Offer Programming Tips on
Family Planning for Married Adolescent Girls, Home Birth Emer-
gency Care
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Global Health Technical Briefs summarize the most important in-
formation on a timely reproductive health topic in two pages,
and pinpoint the implications for public health programs. The
INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Pro-
grams publishes the briefs in association with the MAQ Initia-
tive and contributing authors from a variety of organizations.
The entire series -- on topics such as family planning, health
care programming, maternal and child health, and malaria -- can
be found at: http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/
INFO is pleased to announce these recently published briefs in
the series:
Family Planning for Married Adolescent Girls
http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb25maradol.shtml
Avoiding early childbearing is crucial to preventing maternal
and infant mortality in married adolescent girls. Reproductive
Health programs can do more to meet the high unmet need for fam-
ily planning among these vulnerable youths.
First Aid for Women and Newborns: Where Home Birth is Necessary
or Common
http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb26homebirth.shtml
The Home Based Life Saving Skills approach, developed by the
American College of Nurse-Midwives, helps community teams pro-
vide safe, acceptable and feasible emergency care during home
births.
For more information about Global Health Technical Briefs, or to
suggest a topic, contact
Theresa Norton
mailto:tnorton@jhuccp.org