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Partner  Highlights  

Basic  information  

Partner  organization:    ACCESS-­‐UGANDA         Date  of  report:    January  2015  Person  completing  report:    Dr  Robert  Kalyesubula    Job  title:    Executive  Director    

Key  achievements  

• We  supported  156  rural  women  to  access  family  planning  services,  which  were  previously  only  offered  in  big  clinics  and  hospitals  within  Nakaseke.  

• We  trained  12  Community  Health  Workers  (CHWs)  and  Village  Health  Teams  (VHTs)  in  family  planning  and  enabled  them  to  provide  this  care  from  within  their  communities.    The  CHWs  and  VHTs  are  linked  with  skilled  health  workers  at  the  nearest  health  centers  and  have  been  given  basic  transportation  and  communication  tools  to  ensure  proper  distribution  of  family  planning  packages  and  appropriate  referrals  for  reproductive  health  services.  

• Our  Lifecare  Center  Clinic  has  offered  permanent  methods  of  family  planning  for  free,  including  norplant  and  bilateral  tubal  ligation.    These  were  not  available  before.  

• We  have  also  increased  community  awareness  of  family  planning  and  we  have  seen  and  resolved  a  lot  of  myths  about  family  planning.    The  community  is  slowly  accepting  family  planning  services  and  getting  increased  male  involvement.  

Beneficiaries  

Number  of  Children/Youth  Served  

Under  5  years   5-­‐12  years   13-­‐19  years   20-­‐25  years  

Number  of  Parents  or  

Caregivers  Served  

Number  of  other  Community  

Members  Served  

Male   Fem.   Male   Fem.   Male   Fem.   Male   Fem.   Male   Female   Male   Female  

7   11   136   158   14   32   22   48   33   43   86   112  

 

Services  delivered  

SERVICES   Describe  services  in  detail   How  many  people  received  services?  

Describe  results  of  services  

Training  CHWs   We  train  CHWs  and  VHTs  in   12  members  trained  for   156  patients  so  far  

   

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and  VHTs  in  family  planning  

family  planning  and  adolescent-­‐friendly  reproductive  health  services.      

family  planning.   served  with  family  planning.  

Family  Planning  services  

Skilled  healthcare  workers  at  Lifecare  Center  clinic  provide  consultation  and  referral  for  families  as  they  engage  in  family  planning.      CHWs  and  VHTs  provide  family  planning  services  within  the  community  and  appropriate  referrals  for  reproductive  health  services.  

156  women  received  family  planning  services  in  the  first  quarter  of  the  family  planning  program.  

Families  have  been  supported  to  engage  in  family  planning.  

Community  awareness  campaign    

We  work  with  support  groups  in  schools  to  educate  people  about  family  planning  and  to  help  in  the  prevention  of  HIV/AIDS.  

2  support  groups  help  with  family  planning  messages  in  the  community.    0ver  800  people  sensitized  on  FP  and  HIV  prevention.  

Community  slowly  accepting  family  planning  services  and  getting  increased  male  involvement.  

Challenges  and  next  steps  

• We  still  have  a  big  challenge  to  convince  men  to  get  involved  in  family  planning.    Permanent  methods  of  family  planning  like  bilateral  tubal  ligation  and  vasectomy  are  not  largely  favored  by  the  people  in  the  community.    We  will  continue  to  run  community  awareness  campaigns  to  tackle  the  myths  around  family  planning  and  encourage  male  involvement.  

• Before  family  planning  is  offered  to  the  women,  health  workers  need  to  rule  out  the  client  being  pregnant.    We  had  to  include  family  planning  kits  in  the  FP  tool  kit  for  this  purpose.  

• Members  also  want  to  have  circumcision  as  part  of  family  planning  and  HIV  prevention  but  we  had  not  planned  for  it.  

• We  plan  to  procure  a  new  motorcycle  to  aid  in  distribution  of  the  family  planning  supplies  and  also  transport  patients  and  program  follow  up  activities.