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Strengthening Contraception & Safe Abortion Service Delivery

In Mozambique’s Maputo province and two districts in Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam, this project supports public health facilities to offer a wide range of quality contraceptive and safe abortion services, so women have the choice of whether and when to become pregnant, of how many children to have, and to safely terminate a pregnancy.

Project Date: 2015 - present
Funder: Anonymous
Country: Mozambique Tanzania
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More than 262,000 new users of contraception

242 health providers in Tanzania trained on postpartum IUD insertion

Nearly 13,000 women received safe comprehensive postabortion care

1,000+ community health workers trained to provide quality counseling, short-acting methods, and referrals for further services to women in communities

What We Do

  • Make sure short-term, long-acting, permanent, and emergency contraception are always available so people of all ages can choose the method that’s best for them
  • Ensure availability of quality, non-judgmental, youth-friendly, safe, and comprehensive abortion care and postabortion care
  • Train community health workers to counsel women in communities on sexual and reproductive health services, directly provide women with short-acting contraceptives, and refer them to health facilities for further services
  • Engage communities in systematic processes to hold health facilities accountable for provision of high-quality, rights-based reproductive health services

Project Staff Members

Riaz Mobaracaly

Senior Country Director

Riaz is a proven leader in public health with more than 10 years of experience in the management and implementation of national, provincial and district level health programs with specific focus on...

Joseph Komwihangiro

Senior Country Director

A medical doctor with more than 15 years of experience leading and managing donor-funded health programs in Tanzania, Dr. Komwihangiro combines his technical experience with his passion for helping...

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