Faith and Family Planning: CCIH Leaders Raise Their Voices for Family Planning
To help dispel the misperception that faith leaders do not support family planning, CCIH partnered with fellow United Nations Foundation Universal Access Program partner Resource Media to produce a visual story featuring interviews with Christian faith and medical leaders explaining why they support family planning. The story features...
Africa Christian Health Associations Platform (ACHAP) Biennial Meeting, Family Planning Preconference Session Report
CCIH (through the Advancing Partners & Communities Project), the USAID-funded Evidence to Action Project (E2A), and Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) joined to co-host a pre-conference session on family planning at ACHAP’s biennial meeting, on February 23, 2015, that sought to empower participating organizations to improve...
“Involving Religious Leaders in Promoting Health Services in Uganda | Interview with Dr. Tumwesigye (1:59 minutes)”
In this brief video interview with Dr. Tonny Tumwesigye, Executive Director of the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB), he explains how UPMB involves and trains faith leaders in family planning education and promotion.
“Christian Hospital in Pakistan Integrates Family Planning with Immunization and Encourages Healthy Birth Spacing”
Involving men in healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies can be difficult in any society. In a male dominated society, such as Pakistan, it can be especially challenging. In order to educate men about family planning indirectly, female staff at the Kunri Christian Hospital in southern Pakistan talk...