Angolan Women with a New Outlook

USAID's Miuji wa Disanze increases access to reproductive health and family planning services in four underserved municipalities in Luanda Province—Cacuaco, Kilamba Kiaxe, Cazenga and Viana—by training primary care providers at health centers, training master trainers from the Ministry of Health, training non-family planning providers, and training community agents to raise awareness about family planning and HTSP.
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Those Who Sing Always Find the Song

ESD partners with the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) to incorporate reproductive health and family planning services in workplace programs around the world. This story is about Samira, an Egyptian woman who through BSR's HERProject became a peer health educator at her factory, in her village and even at her local health center. ......................................................................................................................

Yemen: Making Pregnancy More of a Choice, Less of a Risk

By working with the Basic Health Services Project, a USAID associate award managed by Pathfinder International, ESD has helped to scale-up eight best practices in reproductive health and family planning that have great potential to reduce maternal and newborn mortality rates.
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Indonesia: Empowering the Public to Save Lives

With help from ESD, a local NGO in Indonesia managed to reduce the number of women dying in childbirth by two-thirds and the number of newborns dying as a result of childbirth by one-half in less than a year.
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Ethiopian Women Embrace New Options

ESD helps bring long-acting family planning to Ethiopia's Bale Zone.
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The Women of Walungu

ESD assists local women with powering development efforts in Eastern DRC by integrating family planning into services offered to displaced communities.
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Reaching Emma

Through an ESD project in Burundi, community health workers counsel local women on healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP) and family planning at local health facilities.
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Mamans Lumières

ESD’s Maternal and Child Health Project in Burundi’s Muyinga Province trains local women to educate, train and support other mothers to fight childhood malnutrition.
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Finding the Secrets of the Forest

Using its community-based family planning program as a platform, ESD trains former female circumcisers to become Community-Based Distributors (CBDs) of family planning methods.
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Fighting HIV/AIDS under the Stars

To reach high risk populations, staff members of the APHIA II NEP (Aids, Population and Health Integrated Assistance Project) meet at night and at bars, sometimes pitching a tent to create a temporary worksite, providing counseling, education and testing in a convenient—and discreet—environment.
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