This guide is to be used as a resource for trainers in developing in-service training for facility-based healthcare providers and community health workers (chws) who already have some basic experience with and understanding of FP/RH.
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In Burkina Faso, this project promoting HTSP had three components:
This video explains the basics of HTSP in a short animated form.
This is a 2-hour online course which is free of charge.
By the end of this course, the student will be able to do the following:
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies (HTSP) is an approach to helping couples time their pregnancies to occur during a mother’s healthiest years (ages 18-34) and space pregnancies by 3 to 5 years, improving both maternal and child health.
This is a generic type poster that can be used to explain four key messages of HTSP: too young, too old, too close, too soon.
This web page offers basic information about HTSP, including:
- Definition
- Target behaviors
- Information about age of women (teens, older women), and safety of becoming pregnant at that age
This infographic provides basic information about the value of HTSP for women and their families, along with statistics in support of HTSP implementation.
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) is an intervention to help women and families delay or space their pregnancies, to achieve the healthiest outcomes for women, newborns, infants and children, within the context of free and informed choice, taking into account fertility intentions and desired family size.
This toolkit was developed to promote USAID/BASICS strategy to utilize maternal and child health entry points to care to introduce messages around healthy timing and spacing and or limiting pregnancies to mothers, couples and care givers that access child health services.
