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Studies
E&R Study #11 Engaging Communities as Partners in Postabortion Care: A Desk Review of the Community Postabortion Care Project in Nakuru, Kenya
This desk review documents the ACQUIRE Project’s efforts in community engagement and mobilization for postabortion (PAC) in Kenya. The Kenya COMMPAC Project was a replication of the Bolivia PAC Community Mobilization Program (C-PAC), which was implemented by CATALYST and Socios para el Desarrollo/PROSALUD (2004–2007). Both the Bolivia and Kenya projects are important efforts funded by USAID to put the community PAC component into practice, and empower the community to mobilize itself to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality due to complications resulting from miscarriage and incomplete abortion. (2008)
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E&R Study # 13 Evaluation of a Family Planning and Antiretroviral Therapy Integration Pilot in Mbale, Uganda
In Uganda, there is an urgent need for quality, voluntary family planning (FP) services to help people living with HIV achieve their fertility intentions and to reduce HIV incidence. Working with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), one of the leading local nongovernmental organizations in Uganda providing HIV services to people living with HIV, ACQUIRE pilot-tested from March 2006 to April 2007 a project integrating FP and antiretroviral therapy (ART) services at a TASO center located in the Mbale District, using ACQUIRE’s FP-ART integration framework. ACQUIRE conducted a retrospective evaluation using a case-study methodology to assess the pilot, including its effect on the program processes and on FP method mix and uptake. This report presents the findings from this case study and provides recommendations for replication and scale-up. (2008)
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Assessment of the Bolivia Postabortion Care Community Mobilization Program
This assessment looks at the Community Mobilization PAC (C-PAC) program that was implemented in Bolivia from 2004 to 2007.The overriding goal of the Bolivia C-PAC Program was to empower the community to mobilize itself and thus help reduce maternal morbidity and mortality cause by complications of incomplete abortion (both spontaneous and induced). This assessment evaluates the C-PAC Project carried out by CATALYST and Socios para el Desarrollo in Bolivia. It is meant to provide information to interested parties in Bolivia and to key stakeholders in the USAID global PAC program and to provide a knowledge base for replicating the program and scaling up investments in similar programs worldwide. (2008)
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Collaborative Studies
Dual Protection Among South African Women and Men: Perspectives from HIV Care, FP and STI Services (co-authored with the Women's Health Research Unit, School for Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town)
This research aimed to explore the current approaches toward dual protection among men and women attending HIV care and family planning/STI services, and the health care providers working in these services. (2007)
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Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability and Cost of Introducing Postabortion Care in Health Centres and Dispensaries in Rural Tanzania (co-authored with FRONTIERS)
The ACQUIRE Project supported the Tanzanian Ministry of Health (MOH) since early 2005 to decentralize the management of postabortion care (PAC) services to primary health care facilities (health centres and dispensaries), with the intention of bringing services closer to women who are unable to access them at district hospitals. The decentralized service was pilot tested in one district, Geita District in Mwanza Province, northern Tanzania, to provide the Ministry with experience and operational information before it expanded decentralization to the rest of the country. In November 2005, the Population Council FRONTIERS Program began documenting the process of decentralizing PAC and prospectively assessing its feasibility, effectiveness and, cost. (2007)
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