The 2016 Global Health Mini-University (Mini-U), an annual day-long learning forum for Global Health professionals and students, will take place on Friday, March 4 in Washington, DC. The Mini-U's exciting agenda contains a variety of innovative sessions highlighting evidence-based best practices and state-of-the-art information. Register online to select from 68 global health sessions in nine technical topic areas. We hope to see you there!
News
Read below for APC-related news, partner announcements, and information on new or existing RFAs.
2016
Nana Kofi Akorlegah, a Health Keeper from Shama, Ghana shares his experience as a Health Worker.
2015
Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) and the USAID – Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) Guyana Project has began hosting critical conversations to ensuring that barriers to attaining the highest standards of physical, sexual and mental health of all Guyanese are removed. This recent “Lunch Talk” focused on the barriers Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people face in accessing services for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV).
Family Planning 2020 is hosting a webinar on Contraceptive Discontinuation: Reasons, Challenges, and Solutions. The report by Sarah Castle and Ian Askew of Population Council provides an in-depth look at reasons for discontinuation, interventions to reduce discontinuation and/or enhance switching to new methods, and measurement and monitoring of discontinuation. Join the webinar on Wednesday, December 9 at 8:00 AM EST.
Save the date for the launch of the 2015 State of the World Population Report. The launch will be held at the Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW on December 3, from 10am-12pm. This year's report will focus on a transformative agenda for women and girls in a crisis-prone world.
Advancing Partners & Communities's Aysa Saleh-Ramirez considers the profound psychosocial barriers faced by transgender people in seeking and receiving HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and other basic health services.
On Friday, November 4, The Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) project is hosting a dissemination meeting to present to key partners the findings and recommendations from an assessment of the health and social needs of trans persons in the Dominican Republic. The assessment was carried out in collaboration with the Center for Integrated Training and Research (COIN) with academic support from the Iberoamericana University (UNIBE), and the active participation of community-based organizations representing trans communities in the Dominican Republic.
The meeting will include work group sessions to encourage partners to use the assessment findings and begin planning follow up activities. Approximately 75 representatives from government, civil society, and donor agencies are expected to attend the event.
Join us as we work to integrate the needs of trans people into the national agenda.
On Tuesday, December 1, at 9 a.m. EST, the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3), with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is hosting the first webinar in a series of three that focus on increasing the demand for life-saving underutilized commodities for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH). This webinar will bring together technical experts in gender and RMNCAH programming to share best practices and experiences in developing effective programs to reach and work with men and boys in resource-constrained settings.
The votes are in for USAID Learning Lab’s Collaborating, Learning and Adapting case competition! Advancing Partners and Communities’ story about social inclusion of transgender (trans) persons in the Dominican Republic (DR) is the Fan Favorite winner! Inclusion, Not Exclusion follows the story of Valentina, a trans woman living in the DR, as she overcomes stigma and discrimination to advocate for the equal rights of trans persons in her country.
Through Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), FHI 360 has developed the first mobile phone applications based on the traditional paper-based Family Planning Checklists.
The USAID ASSIST Project has just launched an eLearning course on Improving Health Care Quality through USAID’s Global Health eLearning Center. Free and open to learners from around the world, this course is the first of its kind to focus on quality improvement approaches and methodologies for low-resource settings.
Are you attending the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in November? Come and join SonkeGender Justice, one of the Advancing Partners & Communities Project’s grantees, for an interactive and exciting pre-workshop about men in family planning on November 11, 2015!
To understand where, when, and what health services are provided within a health system, quality data must be available. In a country as large as Ethiopia—with 94 million people—developing and implementing systems for capturing quality data can be a daunting task, but when done well can improve how decisions are made, from national budgeting down to health facility outreach planning.
A case story from the Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) project is up for Fan Favorite in the USAID Learning Lab’s CLA Case Competition! The story titled “Inclusion not Exclusion” focuses on Valentina, a trans woman living in the Dominican Republic (DR). Valentina works for a community-based organization (CBO) that is getting technical support from APC, so it can effectively advocate for the social inclusion and health needs of the trans community in the DR. Vote for APC at http://owl.li/TdYYb. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to choose APC’s story (#74). The poll closes on November 17.
Thanks so much for your vote!
This video from Measure Evaluation tells a powerful story of how a simple innovation in a paper-based patient tracking system helped improve the health of mothers, newborns, and communities.
To address the gap in knowledge about the integration of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) within community-based family planning (CBFP) programs, APC convened a meeting in June 2015 on the integration of EC in CBFP programs. Learn more about the meeting and view the presentations.
APC's grantee, HealthKeepers Network, introduced its youth centered program known as Youth Link Up Program in Ghana to help address the raise in teenage pregnancy and promoting safer sexual practices and increase access to contraceptives for youth.
Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) launched their new 'Rights in Action' blog series to commemorate the third anniversary of the London Summit on Family Planning and the creation of FP2020. The blog series celebrates the longstanding work and dedication of their global partners in upholding the principles of rights and empowerment in family planning.
WellShare International and APC undertook a formative assessment to evaluate current knowledge, use, supply, and barriers to the uptake of ECPs in four districts of Uganda where CBFP programs are operating. This assessment is the first of its kind in sub- Saharan Africa.
The State of the World's Fathers is the first-ever report to provide a global view on the state of men’s contribution to parenting and caregiving around the world.
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