The Inter-Agency Reproductive Health Kits have been primarily designed to facilitate the provision of priority reproductive health services to displaced populations without medical facilities, or where medical facilities are disrupted during a crisis. 2 They contain essential drugs, supplies and equipment to be used for a limited period of time and a specific number of people.
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Publications
The Global Programme to Enhance Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Annual Report 2013
Number of pages: 104
Publication date: 14 November 2014
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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Resources
Good Practices on Ending the Health and Human Rights Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula
Resource date: 2013
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
Obstetric fistula is a severe morbidity caused when a woman or girl suffers from prolonged obstructed labour without timely access to emergency obstetric care, notably a Caesarean section. The sustained pressure of the baby’s head on the mother’s pelvic bone damages her soft tissues, creating a hole – or fistula – between the vagina and the bladder and/or rectum. In most cases, the baby is stillborn or dies soon after birth, and the woman suffers a devastating injury – a fistula - that renders her incontinent.
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Combating Tanzania's high child marriage rates
15 September 20141
The Midwifery Programme Guidance has been developed by UNFPA in collaboration with ICM for country offices, programme managers, partner agencies, and midwifery managers in Ministries of Health, to assist them in developing, ‘scaling up’ and/or strengthening midwifery programmes at the national level. It explains key midwifery concepts, outlines a step by step approach on how to strengthen midwifery Education, Regulation and Association, engage stakeholders, undertake effective policy advocacy and fund raising and references key available resources to do so.
Resources
Good Practices on Strengthening Midwifery Services to Avert Maternal and Newborn Deaths
Resource date: 2013
Author: UNFPA
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