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Addressing the Role of Gender in the Demand for RMNCH Commodities: A Programming Guide

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This guide is a resource for increasing demand for the 13 reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) commodities identified as underutilized by the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities (UNCoLSC) for Women’s and Children’s Health. This guide provides information and practical tools to help program managers determine how gender norms and roles may limit demand for these commodities, and how to address these norms and roles to ult…

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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision In-Service Communication Best Practices Guide

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The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s (PEPFAR’s) Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Technical Working Group(TWG) identified the need for a counseling reference guide during external quality assurance assessments conducted in several priority countries in 2013-2014. These assessments revealed inconsistencies in core content and key messages communicated to clients. The Communication Sub-Group (CSG) later confirmed the need …

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Engaging Community Leaders to Provide a Safe and Supportive Environment for Adolescent Girls and Young Women

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This training is designed to strengthen the capacity of community leaders to create a protective environment that reduces the vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) , as well as to increase agency for males and females to reduce GBV and advocate for modification of harmful cultural norms or practices that place AGYW at risk for HIV infection. Engaging Community Leaders to Provide a Safe and Supportive Environment for Adolescent …

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Young Women’s Savings and Empowerment Clubs: A Guide for Mentors

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The Young Women Empowerment programme focuses on reducing the vulnerability of young women (20-24) to HIV and gender based violence (GBV) through community-based HIV prevention, using a combination of socio-economic approaches. This tool is focusing on economic empowerment, conducting financial education training and helping to start savings and loans self-help clubs for young women. This manual guides Mentors in setting up YWSECs and in providin…

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Engaging Community Leaders: A Tool For Facilitating Dialogue

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This tool is aimed at engaging community leaders to reduce vulnerabilities and increase the safety of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Swaziland’s HIV response. It was developed to assist community leaders in creating a protective environment to reduce the vulnerability of AGYW and advocate for modification of harmful cultural norms and practices that place AGYW at risk of HIV infection. Composed of four sections: Gender and HIV, AGYW V…

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Journey to a Bright Future Guide

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… This facilitator manual is part of a set of materials developed for use under the HC3/Sierra Leone project that will be used for training and leading community discussions which complement the HC3/Sierra Leone activities being carried out at the health facility level, as well as through mass media and national level capacity strengthening. Journey to a Bright Future Guide …

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Swazi Men4Health: Communicating About HIV Risk Reduction Strategies with Men

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The goal of Swaziland’s extended National Multisectoral Strategic Framework for HIV and AIDS (eNSF, 2014–2018) is to halt the spread of HIV and reverse its impact on Swazi society. The first priority, in pursuit of that goal, is to prevent new HIV infections and reduce mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Political and community leaders in Swaziland, in concert with service providers and the support of development partners, are working…

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Swazi Women4Health: Communicating About HIV Risk Reduction Strategies with Women Aged 25 to 39

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The goal of Swaziland’s extended National Multisectoral Strategic Framework for HIV and AIDS (eNSF, 2014–2018) is to halt the spread of HIV and reverse its impact on Swazi society. The first priority, in pursuit of that goal, is to prevent new HIV infections and reduce mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Political and community leaders in Swaziland, in concert with service providers and the support of development partners, are working…

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Swazi Girls4Health: Communicating About HIV Risk Reduction Strategies with Adolescent Girls and Young Women

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The goal of Swaziland’s extended National Multisectoral Strategic Framework for HIV and AIDS (eNSF, 2014–2018) is to halt the spread of HIV and reverse its impact on Swazi society. The first priority, in pursuit of that goal, is to prevent new HIV infections and reduce mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Political and community leaders in Swaziland, in concert with service providers and the support of development partners, are working…

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The “P” for Partnership: A Guide to Public-Private Partnerships to Increase the Demand for RMNCH Commodities

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A guide to public-private partnerships in increasing the demand for RMNCH commodities is a resource for developing, implementing and assessing public-private partnerships (PPPs) to help increase demand for the 13 reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) commodities identified as underutilized by the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women’s and Children’s Health (UNCoLSC). Public-private partnerships, descri…

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Social and behavior change considerations for areas transitioning from high and moderate to low, very low and zero malaria transmission

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A 37% reduction in malaria cases and 60% reduction in mortality due to malaria in the past 15 years have saved an estimated 6.2 million lives and increased the life expectancy among those in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region by almost ten years. The global community has called for even greater progress among the remaining 3.2 billion people at risk of infection. To this end, the WHO Global Technical Strategy (GTS) goals include r…