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Community-Driven Family Planning in Urban Slums: Results from Rawalpindi, Pakistan

BACKGROUND: Pakistan's contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) has remained static (less than 1% annual increase since 2006) due to several demand and supply issues. The Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation implemented a community-driven, demand-generation intervention with complementary supply side famil...

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Autores principales: Khan, Adnan Ahmad, Ahmad, Taimoor, Najam, Areesha, Khan, Ayesha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36794253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/2587780
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author Khan, Adnan Ahmad
Ahmad, Taimoor
Najam, Areesha
Khan, Ayesha
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Ahmad, Taimoor
Najam, Areesha
Khan, Ayesha
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description BACKGROUND: Pakistan's contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) has remained static (less than 1% annual increase since 2006) due to several demand and supply issues. The Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation implemented a community-driven, demand-generation intervention with complementary supply side family planning (FP) services in a large urban informal settlement in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHODS: The intervention recruited local women as outreach workers called Aapis (sisters), who conducted household outreach and provided counseling, contraceptives, and referrals. Program data were used to guide in-program corrections, identify the most willing to use married women of reproductive age (MWRA), and target specific geographic locations. The evaluation compared results from two surveys. The baseline survey included 1485 MWRA while the endline included 1560 MWRA that were sampled using the same methodology. A logit model was used with survey weights and clustered standard errors, to estimate the odds of using a contraceptive method. RESULTS: CPR in Dhok Hassu increased from 33% at the baseline to 44% at endline. Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) usage increased from 1% at baseline to 4% at endline. Increase in CPR is correlated with increasing number of children and education of MWRA and is the highest between the ages of 25 and 39 and for working women. Qualitative evaluation of the intervention provided lessons about in-program corrections using data and empowerment of the female outreach workers and MWRA. CONCLUSION: The Aapis Initiative is a unique community-based demand-supply side intervention that successfully increased modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) by economically engaging the women from within the community as outreach workers and enabling healthcare providers to establish a sustainable ecosystem for increasing knowledge and access to family planning services.
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spelling pubmed-99252542023-02-14 Community-Driven Family Planning in Urban Slums: Results from Rawalpindi, Pakistan Khan, Adnan Ahmad Ahmad, Taimoor Najam, Areesha Khan, Ayesha Biomed Res Int Research Article BACKGROUND: Pakistan's contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) has remained static (less than 1% annual increase since 2006) due to several demand and supply issues. The Akhter Hameed Khan Foundation implemented a community-driven, demand-generation intervention with complementary supply side family planning (FP) services in a large urban informal settlement in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHODS: The intervention recruited local women as outreach workers called Aapis (sisters), who conducted household outreach and provided counseling, contraceptives, and referrals. Program data were used to guide in-program corrections, identify the most willing to use married women of reproductive age (MWRA), and target specific geographic locations. The evaluation compared results from two surveys. The baseline survey included 1485 MWRA while the endline included 1560 MWRA that were sampled using the same methodology. A logit model was used with survey weights and clustered standard errors, to estimate the odds of using a contraceptive method. RESULTS: CPR in Dhok Hassu increased from 33% at the baseline to 44% at endline. Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) usage increased from 1% at baseline to 4% at endline. Increase in CPR is correlated with increasing number of children and education of MWRA and is the highest between the ages of 25 and 39 and for working women. Qualitative evaluation of the intervention provided lessons about in-program corrections using data and empowerment of the female outreach workers and MWRA. CONCLUSION: The Aapis Initiative is a unique community-based demand-supply side intervention that successfully increased modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) by economically engaging the women from within the community as outreach workers and enabling healthcare providers to establish a sustainable ecosystem for increasing knowledge and access to family planning services. Hindawi 2023-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9925254/ /pubmed/36794253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/2587780 Text en Copyright © 2023 Adnan Ahmad Khan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Community-Driven Family Planning in Urban Slums: Results from Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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title_short Community-Driven Family Planning in Urban Slums: Results from Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9925254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36794253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/2587780
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