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Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women

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Title :

Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women

Type of Document :

TOOLKIT

Institution :

The Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Date Published :

2006

Description :

Reproductive health for women affected by conflict entails providing services to ensure safe pregnancies and deliveries, meeting family planning needs, preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS, and preventing gender-based violence (GBV) in populations affected by complex humanitarian emergencies. Assessing these needs requires gathering information and technical knowledge about how to conduct a survey. The Toolkit includes sampling instructions, training manual, questionnaire, data entry program, analysis guide, and suggestions for data use. It allows field staff to collect data to inform program planning, monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy. Information can be gathered about safe motherhood, family planning, sexual history, STIs, HIV/AIDS, GBV, and female genital cutting. The Toolkit has been pilot tested in three settings during 2004-2006 among women in refugee camps and women displaced in their own countries.

Target users

The Toolkit is intended for organizations such as government, non-governmental, and United Nations agencies that provide or are interested in providing reproductive health services to conflict-affected women. Field staff who use this Toolkit should be familiar with survey work, but it is designed to be used by staff with limited survey skills.

Learn how to implement the Toolkit

CDC will be conducting a full day training class at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, November 5, 2006. The training will include lecture, open discussions, small group work, and hands-on activities related to planning and translation of data to action. The cost is $225 per registrant. Registrants may earn continuing professional education (CE) credits for specific professional disciplines for $50. For more information or to register, visit the website: http://www.apha.org/meetings/continuing_ed.htm (Course: CEI 2015.0 Implementing the Reproductive Health Assessment Toolkit for Conflict-Affected Women). Online registration ends October 2, so please register early. Space is limited.

Language :

English

Format :

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Url :

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Contact information :

For more information of gaining access to this tool kit please contact:

Stacy Laswell,

Telephone: (770) 488-6393,

slaswell@cdc.gov