Post Abortion Care Global Resources:
A guide for program design, implementation and evaluation
http://www.postabortioncare.org
USAID and the Postabortion Care Working Group invite you to visit this
new online resource guide at http://www.postabortioncare.org/.
This guide was developed collaboratively by representatives of USAID,
its partners and contractors, and others working in postabortion care
worldwide. Materials were contributed by 18 organizations working in 16
different countries. Contributing organizations include the American
College of Nurse Midwives, the International Federation of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists, the US Department of Health and Human Services, WHO
and others.
In addition to collecting and sharing examples of policies,
communication materials, sample strategies, guidelines and standards,
the resource guide includes useful tools for assessing communication
materials, allocating resources for PAC services, and writing training
curricula, just to cite a few examples.
More than 600 documents were reviewed during the development of this
resource package. In addition, each section of the package underwent
extensive international review and field testing.
Highlights:
Research - The PAC research compendium
(http://www.infoforhealth.org/pac/research/research3.shtml) entitled
What Works: A Policy and Program Guide to the Evidence on Postabortion
Care functions as the foundation for building solid evidence-based
programs. When compiling the research compendium, more than 400
documents from 1994 through 2004 were reviewed and evaluated
Strategy - The Strategy Section
(http://www.infoforhealth.org/pac/strategies/strategies1.shtml) includes
links to the full text of strategy documents from USAID and The Ministry
of Health in Malawi.
Policies and Standards
(http://www.infoforhealth.org/pac/policies/policies1.shtml)- This
section features guidelines on how to write policy, a policy template, a
policy assessment tool, and links to examples of recommended policies
from Bolivia, The Philippines, Malawi and Uganda.
There are also sections on Training (with extensive links to full text
training resources), Service Delivery (with an example of service
delivery guidelines), communication (with a full set of generic
communication materials and job aids in English, French, Spanish and
Russian that can be adapted by countries for their local context), and
community mobilization (with resources in English, French and Spanish).
The Home Page also features a link to a webcast of the web site launch
event and new PAC materials from Nepal.
Visit the PAC Global Resource web site for new resources, links to the
latest PAC-related research and updates from the field. French, Spanish
and Russian translations will be available by May, 2008.
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Laili Irani, MD, MPH
Program Specialist,
INFO Project,
Center for Communication Programs,
Johns Hopkins University,
111 Market Place, Suite 310,
Baltimore, MD 21202
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