In Bauchi State, the 72-hour clinic makeover – one of The Challenge Initiative’s high-impact interventions – has become instrumental in the overhaul of the public healthcare sector.
During a neighborhood family planning campaign in Mokwa LGA in Niger State, Nigeria, an inquisitive nine-year-old boy named Mohammed overheard a social mobilizer speaking with one of his relatives about child birth spacing.
The Challenge Initiative helped Kano State in Nigeria conduct 72-hour makeovers in six health facilities, including the Jaen Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC).
Justine Muwanguzi, a Nursing Officer for Midwifery in Busia Municipality in Uganda, describes how the Challenge Initiative has impacted her community and herself.
Because of TCIHC, the fixed-day static (FDS) services approach is now part of an auxiliary nurse midwife’s (ANM) job description, alleviating staffing shortages at Firozabad’s UPHCs on FDS days.
Government leaders across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are stepping up to improve the quality of reproductive health services accessible to their growing youth population.
When The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC) embarked on a journey to scale up evidence-based family planning approaches in poor urban areas, it looked to practices that yielded results in the past.
Throughout their lives, men – just like women – have a variety of reproductive needs. As a result, they are not only critical in supporting their partners’ use of contraceptives but also contraceptive users and advocates themselves.
Please join The Challenge Initiative at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, Rwanda, as we promote scaling up access to reproductive health solutions for women and girls living in urban slums.
Contributors: Trupti Sharma, Prabhat Jha, Dr. Shalini Sarouthia The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC) is working in Madhya Pradesh (MP), India, to improve access to family planning services among the urban poor. Its work with Indore...
Contributors: Dr. Basab Gupta, George Philip, Hemant Kumar Das, Dr Sanjay Pandey In Indira Marg colony in ward 14 of Puri, the air is buzzing with excitement at the Anganwadi Center (AWC), where members of the Maa Bata Mangala Mahila Arogya Samiti...
