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Frontiers in Reproductive Health

Mother and Children in Africa

 A mother in rural Senegal

Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) seeks to improve people’s lives by enhancing services in family planning, safe motherhood, and other reproductive health areas. 

The program conducts operations research (OR) in collaboration with developing-country organizations to design innovative interventions for improving services. One of the main goals is to communicate these research results so they can be utilized for program and policy development. FRONTIERS also works to build the capacity of local organizations to conduct operations research and utilize best practices that emerge from the studies.


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For more information contact:
Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS)
Population Council
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 280
Washington, DC 20008 USA
Telephone: +1 202 237 9400
Facsimile: +1 202 237 8410
E-mail: frontiers@popcouncil.org


FRONTIERS is funded by the US Agency for International Development. The information provided on this Web site is not official US Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the US Agency for International Development or the US Government.



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5 May 2008


   

What's New

FRONTIERS course: "Operations Research for Managers of Reproductive Health Programs"
(downloadable contents)

Family planning symposium, 23–24 April in Washington, DC: "Strengthening Family Planning Services Through Operations Research: Lessons Learned and Future Directions" (presentations)

Video interview with Maryam Sheikh Abdi about FGM/C, including her experience of undergoing FGM/C and field stories from her work among the Somali community of Kenya (here)

Postabortion care symposium, 18–19 March 2008 in Washington, DC (presentations and related publications/resources)

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Publications/Resources

"Meeting the family planning needs of postpartum women" (2008) (PDF)

"Increasing women's use of the IUD for family planning" (2008) (PDF)

"Situation analysis of the integration of family planning services in postpartum, postabortion and prevention of mother to child transmission programs in Haiti" (2008)  (PDF)

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