by Kim Martin | Jan 6, 2020 | AYSRH, India, TCI News
ASHAs Promote Family Planning by Building Relationships with Key Decision-Makers by The TCIHC Team For the past two years, Laxmi has worked as an accredited social health activist (ASHA) in the Ramnagar area of Firozabad city (Uttar Pradesh, India). Laxmi organizes...
by Kim Martin | Dec 6, 2019 | India, TCI News
India Contributors: Meenakshi Dikshit, Dharmendra Kumar Tripathi, Parul Saxena When scaling up its signature Fixed Day Static (FDS) services /Family Planning Day (FPD) approach in Mathura, India’s seven urban primary health centers (UPHCs), the TCIHC team...
by Kim Martin | Nov 1, 2019 | India, TCI News
India Contributors: Shafique Khan, Parul Saxena, Prabhat Kumar Jha In August 2018, India’s Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC) learned that quality assurance visits were not happening at the urban primary health centers (UPHCs) in Bhopal, Madhya...
by Kim Martin | Oct 15, 2019 | India, TCI News
Contributors: Meenakshi Dikshit, Anil Kumar Dwivedi, Pranav Jha Family planning benefits both partners in a relationship and either partner can adopt a suitable method to space or limit their family size. However, the responsibility disproportionately falls on the...
by Kim Martin | Oct 4, 2019 | India, TCI News
Contributors: Trupti Sharma and Nitin Kumar Dwivedi The city of Indore has more than 605 urban Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). Because their monthly meetings, payment vouchers and training schedules were centralized at the zonal level, it was difficult to...
by Kim Martin | Sep 17, 2019 | India, TCI News
At an urban health conclave held Aug. 30 in Bhubaneswar (Odisha State, India), state leaders announced that The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities’s (TCIHC) proven high-impact approaches are being scaled up across their state, expanding beyond the three Odisha...
