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Prevention, Recognition, and Management of PPH - Trainer's Guide
This curriculum is intended to train physicians, nurses, midwives, and community-based providers in the skills and techniques necessary to implement a comprehensive continuum of care approach to preventing and managing postpartum hemorrhage (PPH).
Integration of Family Planning into HIV Counseling and Testing, Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission, and Antiretroviral Therapy Services - Trainer's Guide
This training package is intended to train practicing HIV service providers working directly and regularly in HCT, PMTCT, and/or Antiretroviral therapy.
Strengthening Community and Health Systems for Quality PMTCT: Applications in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia
This technical brief discusses PMTCT implementation experience in four African countries, providing recommendations for future efforts to more holistically advance improved PMTCT outcomes in resource-limited settings.
Single-Visit Approach to Cervical Cancer Prevention: Counseling Cue Cards
The single-visit approach to cervical cancer prevention (also referred to as the “See-and-Treat” approach) currently involves visual inspection of the cervix with acetic acid wash and treatment of precancerous lesions with cryotherapy.
Fear and Misconceptions About Sex Among Adolescents Vertically-Infected with HIV in Tanzania
With increased access to HIV treatment throughout Africa, a generation of HIV positive children is now transitioning to adulthood while living with a chronic condition requiring lifelong medication, which can amplify the anxieties of adolescence.
PRAGYA: Multisectoral, Gendered Approach to Improve Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young People
PRAGYA, meaning "insight" in Sanskrit, is a mixed methods study commissioned by USAID and conducted by Pathfinder India to improve understanding of the effects of Phases I and II of the PRACHAR project.
Implants for Adolescents: An Option Worth Considering for Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy
This publication discusses the long-acting contraceptive implant, often considered for use in women who have chosen to stop childbearing. However, implants can be appropriate for all women, including adolescents who want to delay or space childbearing.
Women Who Dare: Fostering Gender Equality and Addressing Violence Against Women
This Spring 2013 edition of Pathways explores Pathfinder's gender equality work through the stories of women like Deolinda, a young advocate and female condom user, and Celia, a nurse and family planning advocate empowering women in Matola, Mozambique.
Addressing Unmet Need for Contraception Among HIV-Positive Women
This baseline study was conducted to assess the performance of the ARISE (Enhancing HIV Prevention for At-Risk Populations) project in Uganda.
Introducing Operations Research to Large-Scale Program Implementation in Ethiopia
This technical update describes how the USAID-funded Integrated Family Health Program built capacity of health program managers and implementers to conduct operations research to strengthen systems and foster innovation based on systematic learning.
PRACHAR: Advancing Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in India
This technical brief summarizes the evolution of PRACHAR, describes the intervention model and key evaluation results that informed each phase, and highlights next steps for dissemination and advocacy based on 11 years of project learning.
Straight to the Point: Budgeting Basics
This Straight to the Point capacity building tool introduces the concept of budgeting to community-based organizations with limited resources and financial management experience, and leads them through the process of creating a simple budget.
Straight to the Point: Identifying and Prioritizing Behavior Change Needs
Organizations and groups can use this tool to guide a group activity with members of the community they work with in order to identify the major barriers to adopting a specific healthier behavior and to prioritize which barriers should be addressed first.
Empowering Communities through Integrated Systems Strengthening in Northern Mozambique
This brief articulates SCIP’s strategy of integrated systems strengthening, shares a snapshot of its implementation status, and highlights next steps for the project’s remaining two years.
Pathfinder's Integrated Systems Strengthening Framework
This publication offers a concise overview of Pathfinder’s Integrated Systems Strengthening framework, which is our strategy for connecting people to systems and systems to people.
Driving Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health
In 2012, Pathfinder went where the need was greatest—the places where women, men, and young people must fight every day to defend their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This annual report explores our successes during fiscal year 2012.
Lighting the Way: Changing Lives Through Family Planning
The Fall 2012 issue of Pathways focuses our unique approach to providing family planning services and how these services can operate as an avenue of choice for young girls and women around the world.
Support for Scale-Up of Comprehensive Abortion Care in Northern Ghana-Technical Update
This technical update discusses Pathfinder's global CAC approach and experience in Ghana, as well as the government's recent endorsement to scale up the approach in the north.
Research and Evaluation Working Paper Series
The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to disseminate work in progress by Pathfinder International staff on critical issues of population, reproductive health, and development.
Addressing Unmet Need for Long Acting Family Planning in Ethiopia - Uptake of Implanon and Characteristics of Users
This working paper presents the results of a study conducted in Ethiopia that shows that providing Implanon through community-health workers is effective in reaching women who have unmet need for family planning.
Increasing Access to Quality Health Services in Kenya's North Eastern Province
For five years, APHIAplus Northern Arid Lands has implemented a strategy to increase local health system and community capacity for quality health service delivery. This brief discusses the project’s experience in Kenya's North Eastern Province, providing recommendations for future efforts.
Strengthening Strategic Health Information Systems in Kenya's North Eastern Province
This technical brief discusses steps taken by the project to meet challenges to the use of strategic health information in Kenya’s North Eastern Province, and provides recommendations for future similar efforts in comparable contexts.
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