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  • Title: Maternal and child health: effective entry points for family planning.
    Author: Ahmad S.
    Journal: JOICFP Rev; 1985 Oct; 10():1-3. PubMed ID: 12313880.
    Abstract:
    Effective integration of population development policies into national development strategies is universally accepted as a solution to a nation's population problem. Consequently, Bangladesh undertook a maternal and child health-based integrated and multisectoral program to reduce its fertility rate. The Integrated Family Planning, Nutrition and Parasite Control Project is a strategy that can be used to control growth in Bangladesh. Launched in 1979, this project is one of the few that is sponsored by the government of Bangladesh with assistance of JOICFP. The strategy of this approach is to let the family planning field workers gain the respect and confidence of the community members by administering deworming treatment. They can then provide information on family planning, nutrition, parasite control, and environmental hygiene and motivate potential acceptors. The integrated program also provides immunization, oral rehydration therapy, child health care, postnatal and prenatal care and offers sanitary latrines at subsidized rates. The project is being implemented in 4 areas and is expected to benefit 73,000 people. Field strategies involve door-to-door campaigns by field-workers who recruit family planning acceptors, supply contraceptives, refer IUD and sterilization cases to clinics, collect stools for examination and provide parasite treatment. The results of the deworming and family planning programs of the integrated project are very encouraging, as well as the results of the immunization program. The health of children in the project area has improved and fewer children misseed school because of illnesses. All the integrated project staff were given week-long training which touched upon the objectives of the project, the roles of each worker, working procedures, basic knowledge of parasite control, nutrition, and contraception motivation. Group meetings or visits to homes to discuss health education have been arranged. The project staff gained the confidence of the community.
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