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Expanding Community Access to Quality Family Planning Services through Integration and Coordination – The Kasur Model, Tauseef Ahmed (Substitute Presenter: Julio Paca) - Family Planning
Expanding Community Access to Quality Family Planning Services through Integration and Coordination – The Kasur Model, Tauseef Ahmed*Substitute Presenter: Julio PacaProgress of population welfare programs is constrained by low coverage, availability and access, low quality of care, weak monitoring, and minimal involvement of health sector. Pathfinder’s project in Kasur district, Punjab, supported functional integration at grassroots, facility, and district levels to enhance expertise of Family Welfare Centers (FWCs) and involvement of community-based Lady Health Workers (LHWs) to increase demand generation for long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) and referral to FWCs for services on a Family Health Days. The FWCs have become key facilities in provision of LARCs. Within six months of implementation, IUCD use rose from 4% to 12%, an 80% increase from past averages in the same period. The results show that involvement of LHWs, enhancing capacity of FWCs, good referral mechanisms, and extensive coordination by DTC, can now be replicated.
