FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Asia and the Near East
on Safe Motherhood/Postpartum Care

Bangladesh

• Community-based Kangaroo Mother Care to Prevent Neonatal and Infant Mortality (completed)

Egypt

• Using Operations Research to Enhance Delivery of Postpartum/Postabortion Family Planning Services in the Arab Region (completed)
• Enhancing Correct Use of Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) and Postabortion Use of Family Planning in Egypt (completed)
• Helping Women Achieve Optimal Birth Spacing Intervals (OBSI) Through Fostering Linkages Between MCH and FP Services (completed)

India

• Scaling Up the India Men in Maternity (MiM) Intervention in Delhi (completed)
• Global Agenda: Involving Men in their Partners’ Antenatal and Postpartum Care (completed)

Philippines

• Technical Assistance to Increase the Sustainability and Coverage of the Well Family Midwife Program (completed)
• Evaluation Study of a Maternal Child Health/Family Planning Matching Grant Program in the Philippines (completed)

West Bank/Gaza

• Institutional Support for a Program of Activities with the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project (completed)
• Improving Postpartum Care Among Low-parity Mothers in Palestine (completed)
• Post-test Survey for the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project (completed)
• Training Program for the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project (completed)
• Technical Assistance to the West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project (completed)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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See Also

• Population Council Safe Motherhood

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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

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