Integrating Family Planning with Other Health Activities Print
  • Maximizing synergies between maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and family planning, outlines the rationale for aligning maternal infant young child nutrition (MIYCN) and family planning (FP) interventions, summarizes evidence on the relationship between these two areas, and provides an overview of opportunities to identify linkages and better integrate counseling and services across multiple interventions. The brief was written by the MIYCN-FP Working Group of which the Institute for Reproductive Health, a CCIH Affiliate, is a member. For more on IRH's work on integration, click here.

 

  • On 1 December 2011, World AIDS Day, Dr. Peter Okaalet of CCIH Affiliate Okaalet & Associates, Ltd. represented the faith-based voice on a panel in a briefing on Capitol Hill entitled: "Better Together: Family Planning & HIV/AIDS Integration." View his PowerPoint presentation here.

 

  • Strategic Considerations for Strengthening the Linkages between Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Policies, Programs, and Services. USAID, the World Health Organization, and Family Health International. This document will help local and global public health programs step up their efforts to integrate family planning and HIV services. It synthesizes recommendations made by more than 100 African and U.S. experts working in the fields of family planning and HIV/AIDS and aims to help program planners answer the following four questions: What type of service integration, if any, is needed? To what extent should services be integrated? What steps are needed to establish and sustain high-quality integrated services? What information is needed to improve programs and services and to measure success?

 

  • A Manual for Integrating Gender into Reproductive Health and HIV Programs: From Commitment to Action (2nd edition). This publication is the updated and revised version of the November 2003 reference manual prepared by the IGWG’s Gender Manual Task Force. The Manual provides program managers and technical staff at USAID as well as its implementing partners and other NGOs with current information on how to integrate a gender-equitable approach into the design and implementation of reproductive health programs. It includes definitions, background, case studies, and worksheets.

 

  • A Practical Guide to Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS into Grant Proposals to the Global Fund. 2009. Karen Hardee, Jill Gay and Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, Population Action International. This document, with links to a range of resources, will help Country Coordinating Mechanisms, civil society organizations, including faith-based organizations developing proposals for the Global Fund that contribute to preventing HIV and mitigating the effects of the AIDS pandemic through programs that link and integrate RH and HIV/AIDS. 

 

 

 

 
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