Endline Report of the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau Community-Based Family Planning Project
In December 2017, the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB) was awarded a one-year cooperative funding agreement from USAID through Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) to implement a project to integrate community-based family planning (FP) into the Anglican Church of Uganda’s health structures and health facilities. Based on available...
“ICM Partners with Churches to Help Bring Family Planning to Families in Need “
International Care Ministries (ICM) integrates family planning into its Transform project to lift families in the Philippines out of poverty. Nurse Mylin Rendoque is happy to help families with family planning and believes that it aligns closely with her Christian values. “Being a parent is a great gift...
“Empowering Parents To Plan Their Families and Overcome Poverty in Pakistan”
In this story, Dr. Ashchenaz Lall, Director of the Christian Hospital Taxila in Punjab, Pakistan explains why women may be reluctant to use family planning in his country. “This is a male dominated society, and women don’t have much power in deciding the number of children they have,”...
Success story/FAMILY PLANNING USE INCREASES ASRELIGIOUS LEADERS PROMOTE HEALTHYTIMING AND SPACING OF PREGNANCIES
Success story of women accessing family planning services at four heatlh facilities in Uganda after trained religious leaders in their communities encouraged healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies.