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July 2012

Increasing Access to Quality Health Services in Kenya's North Eastern Province

For five years, APHIAplus Northern Arid Lands has implemented a strategy to increase local health system and community capacity for quality health service delivery. This brief discusses the project’s experience in Kenya's North Eastern Province, providing recommendations for future efforts.

July 2012

Strengthening Strategic Health Information Systems in Kenya's North Eastern Province

This technical brief discusses steps taken by the project to meet challenges to the use of strategic health information in Kenya’s North Eastern Province, and provides recommendations for future similar efforts in comparable contexts.

March 2013

Women Who Dare: Fostering Gender Equality and Addressing Violence Against Women

This Spring 2013 edition of Pathways explores Pathfinder's gender equality work through the stories of women like Deolinda, a young advocate and female condom user, and Celia, a nurse and family planning advocate empowering women in Matola, Mozambique.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Global
Country
Mozambique
Uganda
Year
2013
August 2012

Research and Evaluation Working Paper Series

The purpose of the Working Paper Series is to disseminate work in progress by Pathfinder International staff on critical issues of population, reproductive health, and development.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Africa
Asia
Country
Bangladesh
India
Nigeria
Tanzania
Year
2012
April 2012

Bringing Youth-Friendly Services to Scale in Ethiopia

Stigma, service costs, and provider bias pose formidable barriers to Ethiopian young people's ability to access sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
HIV & AIDS
Region
Africa
Country
Ethiopia
Year
2012
October 2011

A Review of Adolescent Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health Projects: Findings and Recommendations

This report summarizes findings from a review of projects to identify promising strategies to transform gender norms and improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes with potential for adaptation and scale-up in Northern Uganda and similar contexts.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Region
Africa
Country
Uganda
Year
2011
Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Contraception & Family Planning
HIV & AIDS
Region
Africa
Country
Tanzania
Year
2011
August 2011

Promoting the sexual and reproductive rights and health of Adolescents and Youth

Developed by the Youth Health and Rights Coalition, this publication analyzes the Global Health Initiative country strategies from a youth lens.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Advocacy
Gender
Region
Global
Year
2011
January 2011

Why Youth?

Investing in the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youth has never been more important. Read the top ten reasons why the global community should invest in young people today

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Gender
Advocacy
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Global
Year
2011
January 2011

3 Billion Reasons Campaign Overview

With the launch of the 3 Billion Reasons campaign, Pathfinder International is calling global attention to the world's some 3 billion young people, the largest generation of young people in history

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Gender
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Region
Global
Year
2011
December 2010

Driving Change: The Impact of Private Funds

Pathfinder's 2010 Annual Report, "Driving Change: The Impact of Private Funds," highlights recent results made possible through private funds. In the 25 countries where we work, Pathfinder leverages every resources available to help drive change in the developing world.

Focus Area
Abortion
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
Behavior Change
Contraception & Family Planning
Gender
HIV & AIDS
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Systems Strengthening
Region
Global
Year
2010
January 2010

Reaching Underserved Youth with Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services: An ESD Approach

This paper takes a look at how ESD changed community norms in support of healthy adolescent behaviors, specifically in Nigeria and Yemen.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Contraception & Family Planning
Region
Multi-Country
Country
Nigeria
Yemen
Year
2010
December 2009

Girl2Woman: Her Right, Her Health, Our Future

Pathfinder's 2009 Annual Report, "Girl2Woman: Her Right, Her Health, Our Future," discusses the importance of reproductive health care throughout a lifetime, from girl to woman. It also highlights a new Pathfinder microsite, www.girl2woman.org.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Gender
Maternal & Newborn Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Contraception & Family Planning
Region
Global
Year
2009
May 2009

Increasing HIV/AIDS Therapy Adherence among Youth in Mozambique: The TAP/Pathfinder Int'l Experience

Increasing HIV and AIDS Therapy Adherence Among Youth in Mozambique highlights the process and results of Pathfinder's successful program to keep highly vulnerable HIV-positive youth in the medical system with access to life-saving care and treatment.

Focus Area
HIV & AIDS
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Region
Africa
Country
Mozambique
Year
2009
January 2009

From Inception to Large Scale: The Geracao Biz Programme in Mozambique

This case study describes how the Government of Mozambique has scaled up its successful youth HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health program to a national level with support from UNFPA and technical guidance from Pathfinder International.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
HIV & AIDS
Region
Africa
Country
Mozambique
Year
2009
October 2008

Pathfindings: Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Services in Africa

A report on Pathfinder's Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care project in eight African countries. The project was implemented June 2007 to May 2008 with the goal of increasing access to PAC services that are responsive to adolescents' special needs.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Abortion
Region
Africa
Year
2008
October 2008

Saving Young Lives: Pathfinder International's Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Project

Summarizing Pathfinder's recent experience implementing the Youth Friendly Postabortion Care (YFPAC) Project in eight African countries, this report contains program descriptions,key results, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.

Focus Area
Abortion
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Region
Africa
Year
2008
January 2008

Pathfinder Ghana Youth-Friendly PAC

In 2007, Pathfinder International administered a one-year Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care (YF PAC) project in eight sub-Saharan African countries. This brief document reviews the challenges, results, and lessons learned in Ghana.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Abortion
Region
Africa
Country
Ghana
Year
2008
Focus Area
Abortion
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & Newborn Health
Systems Strengthening
Region
Global
Country
Ethiopia
Kenya
Mozambique
Peru
Year
2008
January 2008

Assessment of Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Services: A Global Tool for Assessing Postabortion Care for Youth

This tool is designed to help assessment teams, project managers, supervisors, and providers collect detailed information on the quality of Postabortion Care (PAC) services provided to adolescents in order to make services more youth friendly.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Abortion
Region
Global
Year
2008
Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Advocacy
HIV & AIDS
Maternal & Newborn Health
Region
Global
Year
2008
January 2007

Community Pathways to Improved Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealtH: A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Outcome Indicators

A paper developed by the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG), advocates for a better articulation of community-involvement processes and for more comprehensive measures of outcomes of community-involvement interventions.

Focus Area
Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Contraception & Family Planning
Region
Global
Year
2007
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