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Are you working in adolescent and youth reproductive health (AYRH)? Then we've got exciting news! Read about how Knowledge SUCCESS is launching NextGen RH, a new youth Community of Practice that will serve as a platform of exchange, collaboration, and capacity building. Together we'll creatively develop solutions to common challenges, support and develop AYRH best practices, and push the field towards new areas of exploration.
How can hands-on, collaborative approaches - like design thinking - help us re-imagine knowledge management in family planning and reproductive health? Participants from four regional co-creation workshops share their experience.
The Caya Diaphragm is a new self-care product available to Nigerien women as of June 2019. Experts predict a rise in demand for self-care during the pandemic due to stay-at-home orders, strain on health systems and fear of acquiring COVID-19 in healthcare settings.
Knowledge SUCCESS désire vous présenter son agent régional dédié à la gestion des connaissances en Afrique de l'Ouest. Aissatou THIOYE est la représentante de notre équipe en Afrique de l'Ouest. Elle a rejoint notre récent atelier régional, qui a réuni des professionnels de la PF / SR de toute l'Afrique francophone pour concevoir une prochaine génération de solutions de connaissances. Ce sont ses réflexions de l'atelier.
The integration of voluntary family planning and reproductive health care (FP/RH) with HIV service provision ensures FP information and services are made available to women and couples living with HIV without discrimination. Our partners at Amref Health Africa discuss the challenges of effectively addressing FP needs for vulnerable clients living in informal settlements and slum areas, and offer recommendations for reinforcing FP and HIV integration.
On July 15, Knowledge SUCCESS and FP2020 launched our new webinar series, "Connecting Conversations"—a series of discussions on adolescent and youth reproductive health. Missed the first webinar? Our recap is below, and so are links to watch for yourself and register for future sessions.
FP2020's webinar on digital health for family planning during the COVID-19 pandemic brought together presenters from a variety of projects, all of which are leveraging technology to meet the needs of their clients in new ways. Missed the webinar? Our recap is below, and so are links to watch for yourself.
To mark International Self-Care Day, Population Services International and partners under the Self-Care Trailblazers Working Group are sharing a new Quality of Care Framework for Self-Care to help health systems monitor and support clients accessing health care on their own—without hindering clients’ ability to do so. Adapted from the Bruce-Jain family planning quality of care framework, the Quality of Care for Self-Care includes five domains and 41 standards that can be applied to a broad range of primary health care approaches to self-care.
The chronicle of Malawi’s rapid, efficient introduction of self-injected subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC) into the method mix is a model of teamwork and coordination. Although this process typically takes about 10 years, Malawi achieved it in fewer than three. Self-injected DMPA-SC epitomizes the ideal of self-care by empowering women to learn how to inject themselves, and has the added benefit of helping clients avoid busy clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ghanaian nonprofit Hen Mpoano implements and supports coastal and marine ecosystems governance projects and best practices. Tamar Abrams talks with Hen Mpoano's deputy director about a recent project that took a Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) approach, integrating the health of both the environment and those who live there.
