by Sarah Brittingham | Sep 16, 2019 | East Africa, TCI News
Contributors: Magdelene Mbondo, Waziri Njau, Lena Mfalila, Denis Sama and Alex Namaala Lwasa Integrated outreaches – one of The Challenge Initiative’s (TCI) proven approaches – promote access to family planning services by delivering contraceptives alongside...
by Sarah Brittingham | Aug 28, 2019 | Francophone West Africa, In Their Words, TCI News
Dr. Fatoumata Touré Bamba is the regional health director in Bouaké, Cote d’Ivoire. She sat down with TCI recently to talk about changes in her city due to TCI’s presence. What was happening in Bouaké before TCI arrived? Before TCI, family planning services were...
by Sarah Brittingham | Jul 18, 2019 | AYSRH, Francophone West Africa, TCI News
Until recently, the monthly duties of Bouaké’s regional data manager included travel by motorbike to 23 district health centers to copy family planning information from handwritten registers before transferring all of the data to an Excel spreadsheet. He would then...
by Sarah Brittingham | Feb 4, 2019 | East Africa, TCI News
With a shift towards increasingly urban living, how will cities absorb growing populations?A cultural and gendered preference for large families is an important factor in the rapid growth of African populations that has been slow to budge. In Burkina Faso, 15- to...
