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New FRONTIERS capacity-building course

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

Three new final reports on FP Integration from LAC region

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

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

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

Two new program briefs

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

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

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)

Two new final reports

"Improving communication between parents and adolescents on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS (Senegal)" (2008) (PDF)

"Development of a quality assurance procedure for reproductive health services for district public health systems: Implementation and scale-up in the state of Gujarat" (2008) (PDF)

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

This two-day forum synthesized and communicated the lessons learned from ten years of global operations research on increasing access, quality, and use of family planning (FP) services. The forum reviewed a wide range of evidence drawn from the experiences of FRONTIERS and its many partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The second day was be co-hosted with ACCESS-FP, and focused on expanding access to and use of family planning services by postpartum women.

New FRONTIERS tool: Spanish-language gender guidelines

"Guias de referencia: Para instituciones y establecimientos de salud que buscan acreditar las calidad y enfoque de genero de sus servicios" (2007) (PDF) (Anexos)

Three new final reports

“Developing NGO capacity: Operations research to improve financial sustainability" (2007) (PDF)

“Analysis of the evolution of the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting in Burkina Faso" (2008) (PDF)

“Evaluation of the long-term impact of the TOSTAN programme on the abandonment of FGM/C and early marriage: Results from a qualitative study in Senegal" (2008) (PDF)

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

Two new OR summaries on FP in the LAC region

"Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua: Promoting family planning during the postpartum period can increase contraceptive acceptance" (2008) (full text)

"Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua: Women living with HIV have unmet family planning needs" (2008) (full text)

Four new OR summaries on FGM/C

"Burkina Faso: Political will, law enforcement, and educational campaigns appear to be reducing FGM/C" (2008) (full text)

"Kenya: Islamic scholars find no religious justification for FGM/C" (2008) (full text)

"Kenya: Training can enhance providers’ management of FGM/C and willingness to advocate against the practice" (2008) (full text)

"Senegal: Education and public declarations contribute to Tostan’s success" (2008) (full text)

6 February 2008 was the fifth anniversary of International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). FRONTIERS hosted a symposium to share strategies on reducing the prevalence and dealing with the consequences of this harmful traditional practice (presentations and related publications).

Council research was cited in a New York Times article about FGM/C in Indonesia. (offsite link)

Updated Population Council CD-ROM on FGM/C

"Female genital mutilation/cutting: Publications on research in FGM/C—Mutilations génitales féminines/l'excision: Publications sur la recherche concernant l'excision." Available free of charge upon request, frontiers@popcouncil.org

FRONTIERS staff presented at the Fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Hyderabad, India (more)

LAC regional workshop: Using the Findings from Operations Research to Increase the Access, Quality, and Integration of Contraceptive Services (more) (en español)

New interregional report on increasing awareness of IUD

"Developing and testing strategies for increasing awareness of the IUD as a contraceptive option" (2007) (PDF)

Program brief on estimating costs of scaling up

"How much will it cost to scale up a reproductive health pilot project?" (2007) (PDF)

Three new OR summaries

"Bolivia: A gender focus in service delivery improves quality of care" (2008) (full text)

"Guatemala: On-site training and outreach increases demand for and provision of vasectomy" (2008) (full text)

"South Africa: Integrated approach improves quality of post-rape care" (2008) (full text)

New book on postabortion care

"Avances en la atención postaborto en América Latina y el Caribe: Investigando, aplicando y expandiendo [Progress of postabortion care in Latin America and the Caribbean: Researching, applying, and expanding]" (2007) (PDF) (more)

FRONTIERS staff presented at the Fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Hyderabad, India. FRONTIERS sponsored two sessions at which staff gave presentations. (more)

Regional Workshop in Latin America and the Caribbean: Using the Findings from Operations Research to Increase the Access, Quality, and Integration of Contraceptive Services (more) (en español)

FRONTIERS staff presented working papers at the International Conference on Actions to Strengthen Linkages Between Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Mumbai, India. (more)

FRONTIERS and the USAID Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Financial Sustainability Subcommittee present "Paying for Family Planning"

FRONTIERS announces the release of the Balanced Counseling Strategy toolkit to optimize client–provider interaction in family planning services.

FRONTIERS course "Scientific Writing for Reproductive Health Programs"

Five new final reports

"Developing regional operations research training capacity in South Asia" (2007) (PDF)

"Increasing dual protection among rickshaw pullers in Bangladesh" (2007) (PDF)

"Increasing use of the IUD through community and clinic-based education activities in rural Honduras" (2007) (PDF) (Spanish)

"Consolidating a gender perspective in the PROCOSI network" (2007) (PDF)

"Developing an integrated model for post-rape care and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis in rural South Africa" (2007) (PDF)

Small grants program assessment

"Assessment: FRONTIERS small grants program" (2007) (PDF)

Financial sustainability conference videos

FRONTIERS and USAID Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Financial Sustainability Subcommittee present "Paying for Family Planning" (more)

Two new tools

"Scientific Writing for Reproductive Health Programs" (more) (downloadable contents)

"Balanced counseling strategy toolkit" (more)

Three new final reports on postabortion care

"Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and cost of introducing postabortion care in health centres and dispensaries in rural Tanzania" (PDF, 697 KB)

"Assessment of the extension of postabortion care services in Senegal" (PDF, 551 KB)

“Linking family planning with postabortion services in Egypt: Testing the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of two models of integration" (PDF, 731 KB)

New final report on utilization

"Getting research into policy and practice (GRIPP)" (PDF, 970 KB) (supplementary report, 1.12 MB)

New article on utilization of findings from Health Policy & Planning

"Getting results used: Evidence from reproductive health programmatic research in Guatemala" (abstract)

New final report

"Technical assistance to the Institute of Reproductive Health, Georgetown University in researching introduction strategies for the Standard Days contraceptive method (SDM)" (PDF, 32 KB)

Research to practice

Findings from a FRONTIERS pilot project ("Testing a Community-based Distribution (CBD) Approach to Reproductive Health Service Delivery in Senegal") formed the basis for a new rural health worker program, implemented by Senegal's Ministry of Health with support from UNFPA and technical assistance from the Population Council. (more)

"Turning research into practice: Suggested actions from case-studies of sexual and reproductive health": the TRIP framework (more)

Two new reports on utilization of research results

“Mainstreaming and scaling up the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Project” (PDF, 229 KB)

"Mainstreaming adolescent reproductive health in Senegal: Enhancing utilization of the findings from the youth reproductive health project" (PDF, 240 KB)

Three new OR summaries on youth

"Kenya: Multisectoral engagement increases support for youth RH" (full text)

"Senegal: Mainstreaming adolescent health: Building on local support systems" (full text)

"South Africa: Youth centers: A costly way to provide reproductive health services" (full text)

New briefing from FRONTIERS project on highlighting marital risk and promoting premarital VCT in Kenya

"Addressing early marriage in areas of high HIV prevalence: A program to delay marriage and support married girls in rural Nyanza, Kenya" (PDF)

Research carried out by FRONTIERS helped inform the creation of the National Strategy on Adolescents and Young People’s Health in Senegal. (more)

Kenya Youth Reproductive Health project and national scale-up (more)

New report from FRONTIERS project on managing FGC in the Somali community

"A religious oriented approach to addressing FGM/C among the Somali community of Wajir, Kenya” (PDF) (more)

New OR summaries

"Bangladesh: RH curriculum enhances vocational students’ knowledge and behavior" (2007) (full text)

"Bolivia: Marketing and economic analyses help NGOs develop strategies for sustainability" (2007) (full text)

"South Africa: Improve facility management to increase nurse retention" (2007) (full text)

Three new FRONTIERS final reports

"Effect of introducing an 'afternoon pay clinic' on service utilization and cost recovery (Nepal)" (PDF)

"Expanding access to vasectomy services in the Ministry of Health of Guatemala" (PDF)

"Strengthening financial sustainability through integration of voluntary counseling and testing services with other reproductive health services (India)" (PDF)

The Population Council recognizes 6 February as International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. Council work in this area includes documenting the extent and types of cutting and the resulting complications, tracking attitude changes, and evaluating interventions to end this practice. (more)

Two new training manuals

"Introducing systematic screening to reduce unmet health needs: A manager's manual" (more) (PDF) (French) (Spanish)

"Emergency contraceptive pills: South East Asia regional training manual" (more)

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Copies of summaries, reports, program briefs, and research updates can be ordered free of charge by contacting frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the U.S. Agency for International Development's Development Experience Clearinghouse Web site www.dec.org.