New Technical Briefs on Hormonal Contraception and HIV, Family
Planning Successes
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Looking for technical overviews on health? Global Health Techni-
cal Briefs summarize the most important information on a timely
reproductive health topic in two pages, and pinpoint the impli-
cations for public health programs.
Five new Global Health Technical Briefs are now available at
http://www.maqweb.org
* Hormonal Contraception and HIV: More Research Needed; No
Changes in Family Planning Practices Currently Warranted.
No conclusive evidence exists that hormonal contraceptive use
increases the risk of HIV acquisition, transmission, or disease
progression.
* Family Planning Success Stories in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Ghana demonstrate that rapid
uptake and sustained use of modern family planning methods can
occur in even the most poor, resource-strapped, and largely ru-
ral countries.
* Leading Changes in Practices to Improve Health.
Experience shows that long-lasting change can result when health
care managers incorporate success factors in their planning and
implementation of new practices.
* Postabortion Family Planning Benefits Clients and Providers.
Clients, providers, and programs benefit when family planning
methods are offered as part of postabortion care.
* Building Successful Alliances for Global Health.
Successful alliances enable donors, partners, and policymakers
to work together to maximize impact on global health programs.
Lessons learned from the CORE Group and the White Ribbon Alli-
ance for Safe Motherhood include effective approaches to forming
and managing alliances.
New Global Health Technical Briefs are posted regularly on
MAQWeb at http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/index.shtml. Cur-
rently, the site offers 24 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 Norton
Associate Editor
The INFO Project
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Center for Communication Programs
111 Market Place/Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202 USA
Tel.: +1-410-659-2697
mailto:tnorton@jhuccp.org
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