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Family Planning
The Family Planning Education and Outreach Program began in 2007. The program focuses on essential education about conception and contraception – information most Ugandans are not taught – as well as the administration of family planning methods in the field.
Education through pictorial diagrams, followed by Q & A sessions, distribution of condoms and administration of birth control pills, injectable methods and implants is conducted by trained nurses with the assistance of local educators. Both men and women attend the sessions.
Teams of nurse-educators return to the same 39 villages on an ongoing quarterly basis.
The program provides information about:
The nutrition discussion emphasizes the importance of breastfeeding, vitamin supplements, vaccination, and clean water. Deworming, vitamin A supplementation and vaccination are available to all attendees at the family planning outreach sessions as well.
Education through pictorial diagrams, followed by Q & A sessions, distribution of condoms and administration of birth control pills, injectable methods and implants is conducted by trained nurses with the assistance of local educators. Both men and women attend the sessions.
Teams of nurse-educators return to the same 39 villages on an ongoing quarterly basis.
The program provides information about:
- Conception and all forms of contraception.
- Family planning including benefits of child spacing.
- STD’s including HIV.
- Male and female condom use as a means of disease protection and birth control.
- Nutrition.
The nutrition discussion emphasizes the importance of breastfeeding, vitamin supplements, vaccination, and clean water. Deworming, vitamin A supplementation and vaccination are available to all attendees at the family planning outreach sessions as well.
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