Tuesday, 10 June 2008Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan, the USAID ZdravPlus Project, its implementing partner John Snow, Inc., UNFPA, the ADB WCHD Project, and Project HOPE held a meeting "Contraceptive technology: evidence-based facts" on 10 June in Tashkent.
Key health care providers, medical professors and faculty, family planning trainers, and other stakeholders gathered to obtain the latest evidence-based recommendations on the safe and effective use of modern contraceptive methods.
Experts in the field of contraceptive technology ÔÇö including Emory University professor, the first author not only of the authoritative Contraceptive Technology textbook, but also of the World Health Organization's and Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs' book, Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers, together with the deputy medical director of an internationally recognized contraceptive service provision research organization, Family Health International ÔÇö presented the latest scientific evidence on modern contraceptive use.
The Europe and Eurasia Regional Family Planning Activity is a program led by John Snow, Inc. together with the USAID-funded Private Sector-One Partnership project. It is a regional effort to enhance and complement family planning programs and create a supportive policy environment for acceleration of existing and new family planning programs.
The project will assist the Health Ministry of Uzbekistan to increase the theoretical knowledge and clinical skills of providers regarding modern contraceptive methods, so that they can safely provide a wide array of methods to couples planning for healthy families.
The USAID ZdravPlus Project has worked in close collaboration with the Health Ministry, and especially with the Joint Project Implementation Bureau of the World Bank Health 1 & 2 projects and the Asian Development Bank WCHD project in the areas of rural and urban Primary Health Care strengthening and Maternal and Child Health.
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) is the UN agency working in the field of population and renders comprehensive support to the government of Uzbekistan by provision of evidence-based materials on family planning, contraceptives, and implementing the roll-out of the ZdravPlus-developed contraceptive logistics system throughout Ferghana Province, and etc.
The Woman and Child Health Development (WCHD) project, funded as a loan to the Republic of Uzbekistan through the Asian Development Bank, works on improvement of maternal and child health mainly in six oblasts of the country, with plans to expand to the rest in the coming year.
The USAID Project HOPE Healthy Family has worked in the field of maternal and child health strengthening in two provinces in Uzbekistan, namely Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya regions.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008
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