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FRONTIERS PROJECT
Technical Assistance for Service Delivery Programs, Optimal Birth Spacing in Mozambique
FRONTIERS provided technical assistance to Advance Africa as part of its project to improve birth-spacing services in collaboration with the Provincial Ministries of Health in the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia, and Gaza, the Health Communication Partnership, Save the Children, and World Vision. The project tested alternative models of community-based reproductive health care delivery in the Nampula province. The study findings showed that the best target groups for interventions are young mothers (less than 19 years old), those with very short birth intervals (less than 24 months), and those who are most at risk of short duration of breastfeeding without contraception. The study recommended that policy changes should be accompanied by changes in health service strategies to support new initiatives.
Location
Nampula province, Mozambique
Duration
October 2004–September 2005
Population Council researcher
Non-Council collaborators
Advance Africa
Health Communication Partnership
Provincial ministries of health in Nampula, Zambezia, and Gaza provinces
Save the Children
World Vision
Donor
US Agency for International Development
Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.
2006
RamaRao, Saumya, John Townsend, and Ian Askew.
"Correlates of inter-birth intervals: Implications of optimal birth
spacing strategies in Mozambique,” FRONTIERS Final Report.
Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF,
134 KB)
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