Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #110479

Taroub Harb Faramand, MD, MPH, The CATALYST Consortium, 1201 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036, Damianos Odeh, PhD, TAHSEEN/CATALYST, 53 Manial, 4th Floor, Cairo, 11451, Egypt, and Mohamed Abou Nar, MBA, MSc, TAHSEEN/Pathfinder, 53 Manial, 4th Floor, Cairo, 11451, Egypt, (20)2-532-5065, mnar@tahseen.org.

The TAHSEEN/CATALYST Project is the last USAID-funded family planning and reproductive health project in Egypt. The Project uses an integrated and comprehensive approach to FP/RH emphasizing technical assistance to host country institutions, community mobilization, improved quality of care and sustainability. The Project works with young people, women's groups, service providers, communications professionals, religious and community leaders, local and national government officials and the commercial and NGO sectors. In its first year, the project focused on five communities in the rural Egyptian governorate of Minia. In its second year, the Project expanded its activities to include more than 50 communities in three rural governorates and four urban poor areas in Cairo and Alexandria. Initial results are very encouraging. The Project's impact is readily apparent in the five communities where it has had the longest impact. Over the past year, in the clinics serving those communities, client flow has increased five-fold (from 2,575 to 13,303), couple-years protection (CYP) has more than doubled (744.8 to 1696.9) and the number of pregnant women seeking care at the clinics increased almost 60 percent (from 1575 to 2679). There was also a noticeable shift to long-acting family planning methods illustrated by an increase in the share of IUDs to the CYP from 50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2003 to 71 percent. The Project's success shows that adopting an integrated approach to family planning and reproductive health has the potential of changing the way an entire society approaches family planning and reproductive health issues.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants attending this session will be able to describe a new way of approaching family planning and reproductive health.

Keywords: Family Planning, Reproductive Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.

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