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- Addressing Poor Health in Nairobi's Slums
This is one of a series of fact sheets that describe PATH's current and past work in Kenya. The fact sheets focus on specific projects as well as unique approaches that cut across projects. This fact sheet describes the work of the Nairobi Urban Health and Poverty Partnership to address the poor health outcomes associated with rapid urbanization and the related inaccessibility of adequate basic services.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- Advances in Reproductive Health
This fact sheet describes PATH's work in reproductive health.
- AMKENI: Engaging Communities in Coast and Western Provinces
This fact sheet describes PATH's work in behavioral change communication as part of AMKENI, a program of integrated family planning, reproductive health, and child survival services.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- APHIA Projects: Eastern and Nyanza Provinces
This fact sheet describes PATH's work on APHIA projects, focusing on HIV and AIDS service delivery, as well as broader reproductive health issues.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- Asking Questions for IMPACT
This fact sheet describes PATH's behavior change communication work as part of the IMPACT project in Kenya.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
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- Bangladesh Bidder's Guide
This highly illustrated manual is designed to help suppliers and consultants understand the documents and procedures they will encounter when they compete for Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) contracts financed wholly or in part by the World Bank's International Development Association.The manual explains the contracting sequence for goods and services, explains how to prepare bids or proposals, and describes procedures for awards and financial arrangements. The manual includes important background information about the World Bank, a list of resources, a list of acronyms, and a glossary.
- Becoming a Man During AmaXhosa Ceremonial Rites of Initiation: A Manual for Teaching Traditional Surgeons and Attendants About Safe Circumcision and Social and Sexual Responsibility
This manual is designed for teaching traditional surgeons/circumcisers (ingcibis) and attendants (amakhankatha) about safe male circumcision (MC) practices and how to talk to initiates about social and sexual responsibility during the amaXhosa ceremonial rites of initiation (ulwaluko) into manhood. It is used as part of a training program in the Eastern Cape of South Africa that provides extended post-MC education to young initiates during ulwaluko. In the program, ingcibis and amakhakatha learn key messages of social and sexual responsibility that are intended to be passed on to young initiates as they heal from their circumcision and go through their traditional initiation rites.
Publication date: 2005
Region: Africa
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- Choosing Male Sterilization (Outlook, vol. 21, no. 3)
This issue of Outlook looks primarily at vasectomy as a contraceptive option for men. A number of important topics related to this theme are addressed, including no-scalpel vasectomy, no-scalpel vs. conventional vasectomy, choosing vasectomy, cost, vasectomy in developing countries, possible side effects and complications, regret, reversibility, and other strategies for male contraception.
- Convergence of HIV and SRH Services in India: Impacts on and Implications for Key Populations
This document reviews global literature on the impacts and implications for converging HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for people most at risk: young men and women, sex workers, and HIV-positive people.
Publication date: January 2007
Region: Asia
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- Directions in Global Health (Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2004)
The January 2004 issue of PATH's programmatic newsletter focuses on five projects: preventing HIV and AIDS in the Philippines, evaluating a malaria vaccine candidate, increasing youth access to services through pharmacies, advancing the Ultra Rice technology, and using theater to encourage social change.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2005)
The April 2005 issue of Directions in Global Health features five PATH projects: efforts to improve health among migrant communities in China, Thailand, and Cambodia; the Global Campaign for Microbicides, PATH's Woman's Condom, procurement of safe-injection supplies under the PEPFAR program, and the Rotavirus Vaccine Program.
- Directions in Global Health (Volume 4, Issue 2, September 2007)
This special issue of Directions in Global Health features PATH's work in women's health. Featured projects include Sure Start; the Maternal and Newborn Health Technology Initiative; the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative; Global Campaign for Microbicides; SILCS diaphragm; the PATH Woman's Condom; microbicide applicators; AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance II Western Province; and Spring Bud Healthy Development.
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- Encouraging Healthy Sexual and Reproductive Health Behaviors (Outlook, vol. 22, no. 3)
This issue of Outlook focuses on using behavior change communication (BCC) to encourage healthy individual and societal behaviors related to sexual and reproductive health. It also addresses the challenges and importance of monitoring and evaluating BCC programs.
- Ensuring Privacy and Confidentiality in Reproductive Health Services: A Training Module and Guide for Service Providers
A growing body of research supports that protection of privacy and confidentiality is a priority factor in whether clients access RH information, counseling, and services. Whe clients experience violations of privacy or confidentiality they are more likely to drop out of services. This manual is designed to enable clinic staff at all levels to better support and protect the right of clients to privacy and confidentiality. It includes a training module; job aids; and supporting documents (that includes a list of resources related to privacy and confidentiality).
- Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health: Guiding Principles for Inclusion on National Medicines Lists
WHO, UNFPA, and other agencies have collaborated to establish a common nonproprietary list of essential reproductive health medicines. This introductory guide is a companion to that work and provides an overview of the process for including reproductive health medicines on national essential medicines lists at the country level based on the essential medicines concept. The guide also presents the rationale for including these medicines on national essential medicines lists.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Expanding Magnet Theater
This fact sheet describes PATH's work to bring magnet theater to Shikusa Juvenile Centre in Western Kenya.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
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- The Growing Chronic Disease Burden: Implications for Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 26, no. 1)
This issue of Outlook discusses the emerging chronic disease burden in developing countries with a focus on cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and the risk factor of obesity. The newsletter addresses relationships between chronic diseases and reproductive health, such as hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy, and contraceptive choice for women with cardiovascular conditions and risk factors.
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- Increasing Access to Reproductive Health Services Through Pharmacists (Outlook, vol 21, no. 2)
This issue of Outlook looks at the role pharmacists and pharmacy staff play in providing health care services, particularly those related to reproductive health. The issue addresses a number of important topics related to this theme, including accessibility, pharmacists as primary health care providers, reproductive health needs, health care referrals, social marketing, training, building pharmacist capacity through innovative programs, pharmacists and youth, pharmacists and EC, and critical considerations.
- Infertility in Developing Countries (Outlook, vol. 15, no. 3)
- Involving Men in Reproductive Health (Outlook, vol. 14, no. 3)
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- Magnet Theater: Involving Audiences and Encouraging Change
This fact sheet describes PATH's work in community theater that entertains and educates, involving audience members in the action and encouraging sustained behavior change.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- Making Marriage Safer
This is one of a series of fact sheets that describe PATH's current and past work in Kenya. The fact sheets focus on specific projects as well as unique approaches that cut across projects. This fact sheet describes work to bring awareness to the risks associated with early marriage, promote couples voluntary counseling and testing, and empower girls.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- Male Circumcision: Current Epidemiological and Field Evidence
This conference report provides information on program and policy implications for HIV prevention and reproductive health.
Author: USAID Office of HIV/AIDS, AIDSMark (PSI, PATH, MSH), JHPIEGO
Publication date: 2002
Region: Global
- Management of Unintended Pregnancies [Vietnamese]
Developed as part of a project aimed at strengthening the provision of reproductive health services for young people at pharmacies, this leaflet emphasizes the importance of early pregnancy confirmation, provides three options for unintended pregnancies and a list of youth friendly services in Thanh Hoa.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Asia
- Meeting the Need: Strengthening Family Planning Programs
This report is designed as a general resource to help family planning program managers strengthen their programs and meet growing family planning needs. It offers a broad overview of key programmatic considerations, lists of practical specialized resources, and hands-on tools that are available online.
- Meeting the Needs of Women, Men, and Their Communities: PATH's Approach to Reproductive Health
Publication date: 2003
Region: Global
- Meeting the Reproductive Health Needs of Refugees (Outlook, vol. 17, no. 4)
- Misoprostol Literature Review
Publication date: 2001
Region: Global
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- New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies
The Caucus on New and Underused Reproductive Health Technologies is a community of practice established under the auspices of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, for which PATH serves as Secretariat. Caucus members developed this series of peer-reviewed briefs on underused reproductive health technologies. Responsibility for the selection and contents of the briefs rests solely with the Caucus and does not imply endorsement of any single technology by the Coalition or its wider membership. For more information on the Caucus, please visit http://rhsupplies.org/index.php?id=894 or contact secretariat@rhsupplies.org.
Publication date: August 2009
Region: Global
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- Options and Challenges for Converging HIV and SRH Services in India: Findings from an Assessment in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh
This report shares findings from an assessment of how access to critical services for populations at risk of HIV and unintended pregnancy can be strengthened by converging HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services under the National Rural Health Mission and the National AIDS Control Programme in India. The report provides information on the demand for, opportunities for, and challenges of implementing HIV and SRH convergence in four Indian states—Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh. The report is available as one large file or as two smaller sections for easier downloading.
- Options for Unintended Pregnancies (job aid) [Vietnamese]
Developed as part of a project aimed at strengthening the provision of reproductive health services for young people at pharmacies, this job aid aims to strengthen the knowledge of pharmacy staff of the options to offer clients for managing unintended pregnancies, and provides a list of youth friendly services in Thanh Hoa.
Publication date: 2004
Region: Asia
- Outlook and RHO Report on Evaluation Activities in 2003
This document reports on 2003 Outlook and RHO reader evaluations, which included surveys, focus group discussions, and key-informant interviews. The report discusses evaluation methods and results, compares results to a 1997 Outlook reader survey and a 1999 RHO user survey, and outlines recommendations and outcomes. Appendices include a copy of the surveys and responses, key-informant questionnaire, focus group discussion guide, and sample pages of Outlook's design, pre- and post-evaluation.
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- The Peer Family Experience
This is one of a series of fact sheets that describe PATH's current and past work in Kenya. The fact sheets focus on specific projects as well as unique approaches that cut across projects. This fact sheet describes work of the Peer Family Program, one of the most unique and successful interventions of AMKENI, a project aimed at increasing use of integrated HIV and AIDS, family planning, reproductive health, and child survival services in Western and Coast provinces.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa
- Procurement Capacity Toolkit: Tools and Resources for Procurement of Reproductive Health Supplies
As more developing countries take on responsibility for purchasing health commodities, requisite capabilities -- such as decision-making, planning, and technical skills -- often require strengthening. To address this need, PATH developed the comprehensive Procurement Capacity Toolkit for those responsible for and involved in the supply of reproductive health products. A final version of the toolkit will be available in August 2009. The current toolkit is available as one large file or, for faster downloading, 16 smaller files.
Publication date: April 2008
Region: Global
- Procurement Primer for Health and Family Planning Programs in Bangladesh
This highly illustrated manual provides a complete orientation to procuring goods and services for health and family planning programs in Bangladesh. It describes the key steps of procurement and includes an overview of the World Bank's role in financing programs, a list of resources, a list of acronyms, a glossary, and summaries of the HPSP Development Credit Agreement and World Bank procurement guidelines.
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- Reproductive Health and Rights: Reaching the Hardly Reached
This important book brings together a public health and human rights focus on the reproductive health and rights of women and men who are the most disadvantaged and underserved: the "hardly reached." Each article fills a significant gap in our understanding of the health needs of those least served by existing reproductive health programs, including survivors of gender-based violence, refugees, sexual minorities, indigenous women, adolescents and young girls and women who have been trafficked.
- Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition Summary
This two-page summary describes the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), which provides global leadership in making essential reproductive health products available in developing and transitional countries.
Publication date: 2006
Region: Global
- Reproductive Health: Women in Their Middle Years and Beyond (Outlook, vol. 14, no. 4)
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- Sample International Reproductive Health Curricula
Publication date: 1999
Region: Global
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- The Volunteer Spirit in Western Province
This is one of a series of fact sheets that describe PATH's current and past work in Kenya. The fact sheets focus on specific projects as well as unique approaches that cut across projects. This fact sheet describes work with local volunteers, EngenderHealth, and other organizations on AMKENI, an integrated family planning, reproductive health, and child survival project.
Publication date: June 2006
Region: Africa