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Meeting Unmet Need of Urban Poor through Quality Outreach and Services:An Aligarh Experience
Aligarh being a city with a population of 1.2million in Uttar Pradesh, India, has a huge burden of slums (0.7 million). Aligarh has high unmet need & the Couple Protection Rate is low reflected by the fact that the need for limiting and spacing is 20.10 % and CPR 15.95 %( 2010). In this background the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) in association with Government & NGOs planned for strengthening family planning services in 188 urban slums.
OBJECTIVES
Identify areas with low CPR and help couples to choose and accept family planning methods based on their demand and to demonstrate quality services in Government and large volume private health facilities.
METHODOLOGY
The initiative was to strengthen the demand generation at community level for range of community level activities. Women members from slum community were selected as Peer Educators (PEs), for Family based counselling on basket of choice on family planning.
RESULTS
A population of 0 .7 million with 123,147 household and 55,625 Married Women of Reproductive age group received Family Planning counselling and services by community workers (PEs). The data trend shows upto 17.74 point percentage increase in CPR from December 2010 to December 2013.
CONCLUSION
Community mobilization with informed choices can change the mindset and increase receptiveness of the people. This strategy helped the team to reach out the unreached communities with Family Planning services, which were cost effective.
AUTHORS: Dr. Zebi Fatima,Umam Farooqi, Prabhat Jha, Ipsha Singh & Gyanendra Mishra
Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health educationAssessment of individual and community needs for health education
Communication and informatics
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate cost effective family planning strategies
Keyword(s): Family Planning, Urban Health
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been working as a public health professional (Doctor) providing Family Planning services with the focus on urban poor.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.