Health Worker Education and Training: Selected Resources
Family Planning
Barrier Methods (FHI Contraceptive Technology and RH Series modules)
Family Health International (1996)
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The Contraceptive Technology and Reproductive Health Series modules are designed to meet the continuing educational needs of family planning practitioners, program managers, and policymakers in resource-constrained settings by providing information on contraceptive technology and reproductive health. These modules may be used individually for a self-study program or as training presentations for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or other trained health care personnel. The purpose of this presentation is to familiarize providers of family planning with information on barrier methods.
For updated content, this document should be used with the World Health Organization's Selected Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd ed. 2004 and Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd ed. 2004.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Family Planning
Choices in Family Planning: Informed and Voluntary Decision Making
EngenderHealth (2003)
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EngenderHealth's tool kit of related job aids is designed to help users support individuals in making informed and voluntary family planning decisions. Choices in Family Planning: Informed and Voluntary Decision Making is intended for use by a wide range of audiences in different family planning settings, including service providers, trainers, managers of service programs, managers and members of community-based organizations, policymakers, and donors.
Subject Categories: Counseling | Family Planning
Condoms and Sexually Active Youth
YouthLens No. 5
Family Health International (2003)
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YouthLens is a series of research briefs that summarize the latest information on key issues regarding reproductive health and HIV prevention among youth ages 10 to 24.
This issue's key issue is: Condom use among sexually active youth varies widely, due to issues including risk perception, social support, gender, and knowledge gaps.
Subject Categories: Adolescent Health | Family Planning | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Contraception After Pregnancy (FHI Contraceptive Technology and RH Series modules)
Family Health International (2000)
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The Contraceptive Technology and Reproductive Health Series modules are designed to meet the continuing educational needs of family planning practitioners, program managers, and policymakers in resource-constrained settings by providing information on contraceptive technology and reproductive health. These modules may be used individually for a self-study program or as training presentations for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, or other trained health care personnel. This presentation will familiarize health professionals with contraception after pregnancy; that is, contraception after childbirth or abortion.
For updated content, this document should be used with the World Health Organization's Selected Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd ed. 2004 and Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd ed. 2004.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Family Planning
Emergency Contraception for Conflict Affected Settings: a Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium Distance Learning Module
Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium (2004)
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This module was developed by the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children on behalf of the RHRC Consortium. The RHRC Consortium is working to mainstream EC by increasing awareness and knowledge of EC and improving access to and demand for EC in appropriate program locations.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Family Planning | Refugees & Conflict
Emergency Contraceptive Pills: Medical and Service Delivery Guidelines, 2nd ed.
International Consortium for Emergency Contraception (2003)
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The organizations that make up the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception have compiled these service delivery guidelines to give family planning and other reproductive health programs and practitioners the information they need to provide ECPs safely and effectively. The recommendations in these guidelines reflect the latest available research on emergency contraception and have been reviewed by internationally recognized reproductive health experts. Local programs should adapt these guidelines as necessary to comply with national or other requirements.
For updated content, this document should be used with the World Health Organization's Selected Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd ed. 2004 and Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd ed. 2004.
Subject Categories: Family Planning
Expanding Contraceptive Options and Access for Youth
YouthLens No. 12
Family Health International (2004)
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YouthLens is a series of research briefs that summarize the latest information on key issues regarding reproductive health and HIV prevention among youth ages 10 to 24.
This issue's key issue is: Education, services, and products can help protect youth against unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, but groups should be targeted with appropriate messages.
Subject Categories: Adolescent Health | Family Planning
Family Planning and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS Services: an Integration Analysis Toolkit
IntraHealth International (2004)
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This methodology for systems analysis takes a holistic view of an organization or system. It is particularly useful for complex analysis of situations that involve multiple groups of health care workers or intersecting systems. A wide to narrow approach begins at the sectoral level, moves to the systems and process level, and finally, analyzes the performer level. It is a practical process designed to encourage investigators to probe information received, re-interview specific stakeholders, or add other interviews they consider necessary to reach a conclusion.
Subject Categories: Family Planning | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis | Quality
Family Planning Methods and Practice: Africa, 2nd ed.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2000)
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This second edition of Family Planning Methods and Practice: Africa is a comprehensive reference on reproductive health and is written for family planning and reproductive health service providers in Africa.
For updated content, this document should be used with the World Health Organization's Selected Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2nd ed. 2004 and Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd ed. 2004.
Subject Categories: Family Planning
Family Planning Plus: HIV/AIDS Basics for NGOs and Family Planning Program Managers: Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS for NGOs, FBOs & CBOs, Vol. I,
CEDPA www.cedpa.org (2000)
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This manual provides both NGO staff and communities at large with a deeper understanding of the dynamics and impact of HIV/AIDS. It also sensitizes participants to the issues and challenges faced by people living with HIV/AIDS. Topics include modes of transmission and prevention, cultural and social factors contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS, health issues of the immune system and disease progression, and strategies for coping and living with HIV/AIDS.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Community Health | Family Planning | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis | Integrated Reproductive Health
