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Yemen
Program starting—

Namibia
Country Overview Funding Began 2012 MCHIP Partners involved Lead Organization: JSI, Partner: Jhpiego

Tea Garden Laborers in Bangladesh Receive Better Health Care Thanks to MaMoni Project
8 May 2013 Twenty-two-year-old Asholata Mohali and her husband, Apon, are tea garden laborers in Northeastern Bangladesh. Married for four years, they recently had their second child, a healthy baby girl, at a nearby community clinic. Their first child, Roni, who is now three, was not delivered at a clinic—she was born at home with the help of an untrained traditional birth attendant. The difference between the two births, their mother notes, was significant.

In Mountains of Northern India, Community Health Workers Oriented to Postpartum Family Planning
6 May 2013 While breathtakingly beautiful, the Himalayan mountain ranges that surround many districts of Uttarakhand make this part of northern India hard to reach. This is certainly true of the district of Pauri Garhwal—parts of which are at a height of almost 10,000 feet above sea level.

Filipino Women Celebrate “Buntis Day,” Attend Postpartum Family Planning Launch Ceremony
18 April 2013 Last month, 511 pregnant women gathered at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center (CRMC) in Cotabato City for two events – an annual celebration of “Buntis (Pregnant) Day” and the launch of postpartum family planning (PPFP) and postpartum IUD (PPIUD) services at the facility. The March 12th event highlighted ways for attendees to take care of their bodies for the future health of their unborn babies. PPFP was also stressed as a health intervention with benefits for both mothers and babies.

Healthy Mothers Make Healthy Babies
From 15-18 April, the 2013 Global Newborn Health Conference: Accelerating the Scale-Up of Maternal and Newborn Health Interventions to Reduce Mortality is being held in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a welcome reception and optional supplementary session will be held prior to opening day, on 14 April 2013.

Phillipines
Country Overview Funding Began 2012 MCHIP Partners Involved Lead Organization: Jhpiego, Partner: Save the Children

PPIUCD Services: Start-up to Scale-up Regional Meeting in Zambia, April 9-12
5 April 2013 MCHIP and Population Services International’s (PSI) Support for International Family Planning Organization (SIFPO) program, with funding support from USAID, will convene a regional meeting to bring international and regional experts to advance integration of postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device (PPIUCD) into maternal health services.

You're Invited - "Women Deliver" Pre-event on Postpartum Family Planning
WHAT: A special Women Deliver pre-event: A Technical Meeting on Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP) WHEN: 27 May 2013 WHERE: Kuala Lumpur Conference Center Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia WHY:
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