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Family Planning

ADF Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FPRH) project activities have  focused on three main goals:
  • Improved access to family planning information and services for youth;
  • Improved access to family planning information and services for adult women; and
  • Increased public awareness of health issues related to family planning and reproductive health.
 
ADF implemented a total of 25 FPRH projects.
 
FPRH program activities and results included:
 

Youth Counseling Centers. ADF helped to strengthen existing and to establish new youth-friendly counseling centers. Over 35,000 adolescents from Backa Topola, Becej, Bor, Indjija, Kladovo, Majdanpek, Negotin, Petrovac, Sombor, Subotica, and Vrsac, have improved access to family planning and reproductive health information and services in the newly established youth counseling centers established in their municipalities.

 Youth counseling training in Subotica

Youth Peer Educators. ADF training of trainers on peer education as well as other program activities have further improved the capacities of the national youth peer network and the NGOs dealing with peer education to provide information and organize peer education on FPRH themes. ADF helped develop the capacity of some 600 peer educators.

Improved Capacities of FPRH Service Providers. ADF CRDA improved capacities of FPRH health care service providers by equipping their facilities with diagnostic and other equipment. These supplies were provided to medical centers or primary health care institutions in 18 municipalities.
ADF CRDA efforts resulted in women in Vojvodina and Eastern Serbia receiving increased access to improved and expanded FPRH services in 21 municipalities.
 
Education of Medical Professionals. In addition to education provided to youth counseling centers’ staff and peer educators, ADF supported a series of health trainings to provide gynecologists, pediatricians and nurses with updated information on FPRH issues and continuing medical education opportunities.
 
Public awareness campaigns. Several FPRH awareness campaigns were conducted by ADF. Systematic, regional campaigns engaged different stakeholders such as health institutions, medical professionals, government authorities, local communities and the civil sector which, in conjunction with its large outreach, significantly contributed to raising public awareness on health issues, particularly family planning and reproductive health.
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