Talking About LARCs with Young Clients Video & Discussion Guide

This video, which is part of a set of materials for young women on LARCs, is intended for service providers to guide them in how to approach young women who are interested in postponing pregnancy and searching for an appropriate contraceptive. There is a discussion guide which accompanies the video.

The materials are available in English and French.

The purpose of this discussion guide is:

  • To accompany the video so viewers may reflect on, debate and draw insights from the content they have watched
  • Facilitate discussions among health pr:oviders about their role and their needs in delivering comprehensive contraceptive counseling for young people
  • Increase providers’ comfort and confidence in providing comprehensive contraceptive counseling for young people that includes information about LARCs

Intended users include:

  • Program managers or staff working with healthcare providers on offering a range of voluntary contraceptive methods, including LARCs, or adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health issues
  • Healthcare providers or managers who lead discussions with colleagues on delivering reproductive health services to young people

Other materials in this set (also in both English and French) include:

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Tenemos Derecho a Planificar una Familiar Saludable y Feliz

This pamphlet, translated as “We have the right to plan a healthy and happy family,” is part of a project in Guatemala to increase understanding of the right to family planning among rural indigenous population of the Guatemalan Western Highlands and prioritized areas of intervention. The pamphlet is part of a series intended for several different audiences.

This pamphlet covers the availability of modern family planning for adolescents, women, and families.

Source: Ministry of Health Guatemala, PASMO, PSI

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Tenemos Derecho a Planificar una Familiar Saludable y Feliz Pamphlet #1

This pamphlet, translated as “We have the right to plan a healthy and happy family,” is part of a project in Guatemala to increase understanding of the right to family planning among rural indigenous population of the Guatemalan Western Highlands and prioritized areas of intervention. It is part of a set of pamphlets from the project.

This particular pamphlet is addressed to parents, and focuses on the needs of adolescents and their right to use contraception.

Source: Ministry of Health Guatemala, PASMO, PSI

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Thinking about Using Depo? Things to Consider

This pamphlet was designed for women considering using Depo-Provera as a contraceptive method.

It provides important information about the relationship between Depo-Provera and HIV, about taking Depo when using ARVs, and about protecting oneself and one’s partner from HIV.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Treatment 2.0 Factsheets

This factsheet presents questions and answers about “Treatment 2.0” – a new approach to HIV treatment. It is hoped that by treating HIV in this new way, there will be a dramatic increase in ARV coverage not only to save lives and
meet Universal Access goals, but as a strategy to significantly reduce new HIV infections.

Treatment 2.0 is also called Treatment as Prevention, and the factsheet explains that when a high percentage of an HIV-infected population is on ARV treatment in a city or a cohort, HIV infection rates drop significantly in that population. This seems to imply that ARV drugs could be a powerful prevention tool at the population level.

The main goals of Treatment 2.0 are:

  • Increase HIV treatment access
  • Simplify treatment delivery
  • Lower HIV infection rates
  • Reduce costs of HIV care
  • Strengthen communities to engage in health services
  • Protect human rights

Source: ITPC Global

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Treatment as Prevention: Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ was developed with input from the National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV (NEPHAK) and Health GAP on the basis of national PLHIV dialogues on treatment as prevention conducted throughout Kenya. The questions and answers contain information relevant for a global audience—but have been written specifically for individuals living and working in low and middle income countries.

Questions include:

  • What is new about treatment as prevention?
  • When should PLHIV start treatment?
  • What does treatment as prevention mean about the best time to start HIV treatment?
  • Should everyone with HIV start ARVs right away—even before they feel sick or the CD4 cell count drops?
  • If you start ARVs and want to use them as treatment as prevention, do you have to stay on them for life?
  • Many countries don’t have viral load tests in public facilities. How can an individual tell if treatment as prevention is working—especially if he or she is feeling healthy anyway?
  • There are treatment shortages in many countries. Why should PLHIV push for expanding access for treatment as prevention?

Source: National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Treatment as Prevention (TasP) Factsheet

This factsheet provides answers to some common questions about Treatment as Prevention.

The questions include:

  • What is ART treatment as prevention?
  • What is new about “treatment as prevention”?
  • What determines when to initiate ARV treatment in Kenya?
  • When should someone with HIV start treatment?
  • Should everyone with HIV start ARVs right away?
  • What can Kenyan people living with HIV do or demand?

Source: National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Use of Misoprostol for Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage

This poster is intended for the Ugandan market and focuses on the use of misoprostol – a cost-effective tablet that prevents postpartum hemorrhage during childbirth. Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal deaths in low resource settings. The full-color pictorial shows how to administer Misoprostol.

Source: Uganda Ministry of Health, Population Services International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

Use Your Net (LLIN)

Brochure with illustrations of how to open, air out, hang, and use a long-lasting insecticide treated net (LLIN) for sleeping.

Source: Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019