Feature Stories

Pathfinder International/Peru Introduces Postabortion Care to Angola: Trainings in Luanda mark a first step toward a national postabortion care system.

Grameenphone Co-Organizes USAID-Funded NSDP Conference 2007: Meeting highlights five years of achievements; identifies challenges for years to come.

NSDP Enters Partnership with Grameenphone: Telecommunications giant to support National Safe Motherhood and Infant Care Project.

Famous Cricketer Mohamed Rafique Visits Smiling Sun Clinic: 2005 Player of the Year stars in role as NSDP spokesman.

Joya Ashan Visits Smiling Sun Clinic: Television star speaks about the importance of health.

Smiling Sun Clinics Take Part in National Polio Immunization Campaign: 20 million children to be vaccinated.

Dealing with Difficult Realities: the Power of Peer Counseling: HIV positive mother faces challenges, uses her experience to reach out to others in need.

Pathfinder International/Botswana Hosts Miss PMTCT Pageant: Event raises AIDS awareness in Gabarone.

Changing Lives: A young woman reaches out to her peers to prevent HIV/AIDS.

Hope and Faith Against Overwhelming Odds: Couple endures pain and stigma of fistula for 23 years but hopes are answered through Pathfinder program.

Peer Promoter Saves Three from Circumcision: Tadalech Girma, trained by Pathfinder, rescues three young sisters from the cruel and harmful practice.

Addressing the Consequences of Early Marriage: Zegewchu Kassa overcomes the debilitating and stigmatizing condition of obstetric fistula through the help of a Pathfinder-trained community health worker.

Saluting Leading Women: With the help of Pathfinder and a local partner NGO, Fikirte Hailu leaves behind a life of prostitution to become a leader in her community.

Reaching the Underserved: Buzayo Rata, a Pathfinder-trained community-health worker, fights harmful traditional practices and introduces family planning in the vastly underdeveloped area of South Omo.

From Liquor Bar to Youth Center: Pathfinder teams up with authorities in Enchini Town to create a vibrant center for local youth.

Religious Leader Expands Community Role through Training: Kebele Kuttu, a protestant priest from southern Ethiopia, becomes a community-based reproductive health agent for his congregation.

Effort through Unity: Women team up to earn income, clean up neighborhood.

Mums for Mums: Pathfinder implementing partner delivers home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS.

Rays of Hope: Young Indian Couple Faces Brighter Future with Help of PRACHAR Project: Veena Kumari*, married at 15, decides to delay childbearing and stay in school after support from Pathfinder's PRACHAR project.

Ceremony Celebrates Pathfinder-Trained Providers: Lady health visitors and auxiliary nurse midwives of Gaya district, trained in IUD insertion, receive certification at Pathfinder ceremony.

IUD Training Empowers Providers in India: Auxiliary nurse midwives and lady health visitors from Primary Health Centers trained on counseling, screening, and insertions.

Peer Educator Idol II: Mukta peer educators select their representatives to the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico.  

Reducing Reproductive Health Burden of Women—A Relentless Effort: Barachatti Primary Health Centre and PRACHAR conduct a non-scalpel vasectomy camp to help reduce burden of reproductive health care on women.

Expanding Contraceptive Choice: PRACHAR conducts IUD insertion training to improve access to contraceptive choices for women and men in Bihar. 

Newlywed Couple Learns Importance of Family Planning: Couple attends Nav Dampati Swagat Samaroh ceremony and after learning more about reproductive health, decide to delay first pregnancy. 

Eradicating Myths and Misconceptions: Young mother learns how she can space her pregnancies and thus better care for her family.

Shama Parvin: Making the Right Choice: Family Welfare Counselor courageously decides to end early marriage in her own family.

Salute to the President, Pratibhatai: Sex workers from Mukta Project celebrate first female president of India. 

Men Pledge Commitment to Family Planning: PRACHAR Project promotes non-scalpel vasectomy.

Mukta Project Holds Workshop with Local Police: Officers and sex workers pledge commitment to HIV/AIDS prevention.

A Silent Heroine: Celebrating the Life of Pathfinder International's Shubhangi Barawkar.

Pathfinder/India Hosts Peer Educator Idol: Winner attends 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto.

Beyond Stigma and Discrimination: With Pathfinder's support, Habiba Hassan Abdillahi works to help her community come to grips with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Kenyan Girl Addresses Global Women's Conference: Sheila Wangui, a Kenyan girl guide and participant in a Pathfinder adolescent program attends UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Football to the Rescue: APHIA II NEP holds first "Chill" Football Tournament to educate youth about important reproductive health messages.

Northern Kenya to Benefit from Improved Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care: North Eastern Province to receive enhanced community and clinical health care services.

Mobile Voluntary HIV/AIDS Counseling and Testing Reaches Matatu Drivers in Nairobi: Local Pathfinder partner captures the attention of the matatu community through innovative outreach.

US Ambassador and Moldovan Minister of Health Inaugurate New VCT Center: With Pathfinder support, first Voluntary Counseling and Testing Center for HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B and C opens in Ştefan-Vodă.

New Blood Bank Named for Dr. Habib Sadauki: Pathfinder's Nigerian Continuum of Care project director honored for his dedication to ending maternal mortality in Nigeria.

New Technology Saves Nigerian Women's Lives: Two women saved during recent Pathfinder trainings for the Continuum of Care project.

A Little Bit of Magic: Community magic shows in Nepal entertain communities while providing important reproductive health messages.

Pathfinder/Peru Announces 2008 Anonymous Heroes—Saving Mothers' Lives Award: Local health center honored for its dedication to helping women of Peru give birth safely.

New Clinic Opens After Devastating Earthquake: Pathfinder/Peru builds new clinic in San Clemente to help those left without health care in the aftermath of August earthquake.

Pathfinder/Peru Announces 2007 Anonymous Heroes—Saving Mothers' Lives: Organization honored for its efforts to help women in Peru.

Pathfinder International/Peru Announces Winners of 2006 Sarah Faith Award: Organization honors efforts to save women's lives.

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael O. Leavitt visits ‘Tutunzane’ program: Secretary and delegation saw the work of community home-based care first-hand.

Community Ownership: Aisha Ally, a home-based care supervisor, helps communities take charge of the fight against HIV/AIDS.

A Milestone in Public-Private Partnership: Local municipality donates bicycles to Pathfinder International/Tanzania.

From Client to Caregiver: Pathfinder beneficiary Agnes Yohanna brings HIV/AIDS counseling, testing, and treatment to her community.

Changing Lives through Community Home-Based Care: Maria Laurent learns to cope with HIV through her Pathfinder-trained community health worker.

Home-Based Care in Ilala: Siasa, saved from tuberculosis, becomes a Pathfinder-trained health worker in his community.

Uganda Team Represents Pathfinder at World Population Day Actitivies: Staff organize stall exhibit to highlight Pathfinder's contributions to improving the sexual and reproductive health of Ugandans.

Giving a Helping Hand to Fellow Students: Peer service providers support student needs at Makerere University.

Pathfinder/Viet Nam Leads Exchange Visit to University of Western Australia: Vietnamese delegates inspired to start new initiative to improve medical education for ethnic minority and remote populations.