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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs:  Decentralization of Postabortion Care in Senegal and Tanzania</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb53decpost.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page Brief describes an overview of USAID's Post Abortion Care (PAC)policies and focuses on new programs to improve access to PAC services in Senegal and Tanzania.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:59:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Population Reports: Elements of Success in Family Planning Programs</title>
            <link>http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/J57/J57.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A well-trained, supervised, and motivated staff is one of the most important elements of success in family planning programming, according to this 28-page report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's INFO Project. 

Obtaining an adequate budget is one of the most difficult elements for family planning programs to achieve. Although proper funding in and of itself will not guarantee program success, inadequate funding of programs will ensure their failure.

Other elements include: Making services accessible; Offer client-centered care; Rely on evidence based technical guidance; Communicate effectively; Assure contraceptive security; Work for supportive policies;
Coordinate; Build a high performing staff; Base decisions on evidence; Lead strongly, manage well; Integrate services appropriately.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:49:42 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Population Reports: New Findings on Contraceptives</title>
            <link>http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/m20/m20.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This 20-page Population Reports issue highlights new research findings about contraceptives:

-Providers can now give clients the DMPA injection even if they are four weeks late without otherwise ruling out pregnancy. 

-Contrary to popular belief, a recent systematic review by the Cochrane Collaboration has shown that giving emergency contraceptive pills in advance does not result in increased sexual risk-taking. 
  
-Family Health International has developed a new checklist to help providers identify women who are at low risk for current sexually transmitted infections (STIs). These women could be medically eligible for IUD insertion.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:11:55 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>INFO Reports: Vasectomy: Tools for Providers</title>
            <link>http://www.infoforhealth.org/inforeports/Vasectomy/Vasectomy.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Family planning providers can use the checklists and tables in this report to:

• Counsel clients about vasectomy and ensure that they make an informed choice.

• Identify men with conditions that require a delay or special consideration before they can have a
vasectomy.

• Explain the vasectomy procedure.

• Try to make sure that the client’s decision for vasectomy is well-considered and his own.

• Explain to a man what he should do before and after the vasectomy.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:52:07 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Population Reports: Vasectomy: Reaching out to new users</title>
            <link>http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr/d6/d6.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This 24-page Population Reports issue states that vasectomy is simpler and more cost effective than female sterilization and offers men a way to share responsibility for family planning.

Although vasectomy is highly effective, convenient, and poses little risk of medical complications, vasectomy use remains low throughout the developing world. 

Worldwide fewer than 3% of women ages 15 to 49 who are married or in union rely on a partner's vasectomy for contraception. Many men are not aware of vasectomy as a family planning option or fear that vasectomy will make them impotent. 

Family planning progam managers can use the report to:
-Address the barriers that discourage men from choosing vasectomy.
-Compare and assess different approaches to offering vasectomy services.
-Plan how to intorduce and scale up safe and effective vasectomy services.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:38:05 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs: Postpartum Care</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/postp.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page Technical Brief summarizes why Postpartum Care is so important. 

-In developing countries, over 60% of maternal deaths occur in the postpartum period, and about 70% of women receive no postpartum care. 

-Effective care during the first week postpartum—especially during the first 24 hours—is essential to maximize survival of mothers and newborns. 

-Women, their families and communities should be able to recognize maternal danger signs and have a plan for seeking appropriate care. 

-Programs should manage the care of mother and newborn together, as the health and well-being of both are interdependent.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:05:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Techncial Briefs: Peer Education: A Viable Approach for Reaching Youth</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb51peereducators.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page Technical Brief explains why peer education is an effective method to reach yout.

-Peer education can be an effective way to improve youth reproductive and sexual health outcomes(unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV). 

-Greater exposure and improved outcomes are associated with the quality of peer education programs. 

-Programs should ensure high quality by emphasizing adequate training, retention efforts, monitoring and evaluation, curriculum/structure, and meaningful youth involvement.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:59:50 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs: Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb50PMTCT.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page Technical Brief summarizes the interventions for preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV. 

-HIV-positive women can transmit HIV to their infants during pregnancy, childbirth, or while breastfeeding.  

-Providing HIV prevention, care and treatment within existing maternal and child health services dramatically improves their uptake, improving maternal health and reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:42:22 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs: Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb48posthem.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page Brief concludes that:

* Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality in low-resource settings. 

* In countries with high maternal mortality and limited resources, introducing safe, low-cost, evidence-based practices that prevent PPH can save women’s lives.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:23:56 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs: Avian Influenza: Critical Program Issues</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb46avianflu.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page Brief concludes:

*While the spread of avian influenza (H5N1) virus from person-to-person is currently rare and unsustained, H5N1 continues to pose a significant threat to public health and economies worldwide. 

*All evidence to date indicates that close contact with dead or sick birds is the principal source of human infection with H5N1. 

*Key protective practices endorsed by international agencies include washing (proper hygiene), separating chickens/birds, reporting dead or sick chickens/birds, and cooking poultry properly. 

*Strategic AI communication can effectively increase awareness of AI risks, means of transmission, and promote sustained behavior change when carefully delivered.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:18:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs:Tuberculosis and the Media: The Importance of Communicating ...</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb47mediainterac.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two page Brief concludes that: 
*Planning is the key to a successful tuberculosis (TB) communication program or activity. 

*You need to choose a format for contact with the media that best fits your audience and message. 

*You need to identify the SOCO (“single overriding communication objective”) that you want your audience to remember. 

*You need to identify and train a spokesperson to represent your program to the media.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:09:42 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs: Risk Communication: Principles, Tools, and Techniques</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb49riskcomn.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This 2-page Brief concludes that:

*Risk communication is central to informed decision-making. 

*Guidelines exist to help programs and providers present risk information clearly and effectively. 

*People under stress typically want to know that you care before they care about what you know. 

*People under stress typically have difficulty hearing, understanding, and remembering information.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:03:45 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Health Technical Briefs:The Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM): A Postpartum ...</title>
            <link>http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb45LAM.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This two-page fact sheet discusses:

*The Lactational Amenorrhea Method is an effective, temporary contraceptive method based on natural infertility resulting from certain patterns of breastfeeding.
 
*Studies suggest that LAM attracts previous non-users to the modern method mix. 

*Providers should discuss with clients healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies and return to fertility as part of LAM counseling. 

*Programs should assist mothers in transition from LAM to another method by providing or linking to family planning services.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:55:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>INFO Reports: Entertainment-Education For Better Health</title>
            <link>http://www.infoforhealth.org/inforeports/E-E/E-E.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This issue of INFO Reports discusses three aspects of entertainment-education to improve
family planning/reproductive health and prevent HIV infection:

• How E-E works and its potential effects on knowledge, attitudes, and behavior;

• The best uses of the various E-E formats; and

• The important steps for managing E-E projects, within the framework of the general process for developing communication programming.

Managers of family planning/reproductive health programs and policy makers can use this report
to become more knowledgeable advocates for E-E and better prepared to oversee E-E projects.

Also, this report can help E-E managers with choosing formats and producing E-E products. For radio or TV dramas, a checklist includes the tasks that are the responsibility of the E-E manager.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:48:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>INFO Reports: Tools for Behavior Change Communication</title>
            <link>http://www.infoforhealth.org/inforeports/BCCtools/index.shtml</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many health and development programs use behavior change communication (BCC) to improve people’s health and wellbeing, including family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and prevention of infectious diseases. 

BCC is a process that motivates people to adopt and sustain healthy behaviors and lifestyles. Sustaining healthy behavior usually requires a continuing investment in BCC as part of an overall health program.

The tools in this issue of INFO Reports are meant to help with planning and developing a BCC component in family planning programs. The same tools can be used, however, for any health- or development-related BCC program. This report is part of a set of publications on behavior change communication.]]></description>
            <author>sgoldste@jhuccp.org (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP))</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:11:57 +0100</pubDate>
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