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YEAR: 1992

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

National family planning service guidelines. Contraception.

AUTHORS

Knauff L; Muhuhu P

SOURCE

AFRICA HEALTH. 1992 Mar;14(3):12-3.

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the role of the Program for International Training in Health (INTRAH) in the development of

national family planning service guidelines throughout sub-Saharan Africa. INTRAH noted that the service managers,

trainers and service providers lacked a common set of references to guide family planning service development,

provision, training and evaluation. This was evident from the great variations in family planning service delivery

practices and procedures and working conditions, and considerable confusion about what constituted an acceptable

level of family planning service coverage and quality. In response to this problem, INTRAH conducted a series of

technical assistance program in Botswana, which resulted in two ministry-sanctioned service and training-directed

guidance documents. These documents include a national family planning service policy and a set of standards to

accompany the policy statements, and a set of family planning service guideline that operates the policy and

standards. These documents are available at all government-sponsored family planning service sites, and service

providers are expected to use them as references for service planning, provision and evaluation. In addition, INTRAH

assists ministries of health to organize for and prepare drafts of country-appropriate service guides and guidelines

with an emphasis on in-country working groups. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1564-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "National family planning service guidelines.

Contraception.", is(are) Knauff L; Muhuhu P. The source of this article is "AFRICA HEALTH. 1992 Mar;14(3):12-3.".

This article was published in 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 1564-06. All

rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11564

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