 Russia/ Eurasia: Kyrgyzstan
Visiting Nurses-Project HOPE began another new program for educating visiting nurses in IMCI (Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses). These nurses will conduct home visits for approximately 21,000 mothers of children under the age of five.
Family Planning and Baby Friendly Hospitals-In January 2007, Project HOPE began a new Health of Women and Children program which includes two specific activities. The first is a breastfeeding promotion initiative to assist health officials in southern Kyrgyzstan to improve infant feeding knowledge among mothers through the creation of health information materials, breastfeeding campaigns and home visits made by trained patronage nurses or community volunteer leaders. The second is the family planning/reproductive health activity which specifically teaches standard days method, a natural form of birth control, using CycleBeads™. The program includes distribution of 10,000 sets of CycleBeads and the eventual development of local production of the beads for a sustainable supply.
Tuberculosis Management -Project HOPE is working on a region-wide initiative with the goal of improving the effectiveness of the health system in responding to TB by implementing DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy – Short Course) in five countries. The project has the following objectives: (1) increase the utilization, quality, and successful completion of DOTS; (2) improve the management of the TB control system; (3) develop approaches to bring DOTS to special populations; (4) improve laboratory support to DOTS; and (5) facilitate an improved TB policy environment and appropriate practices through dissemination of results and lessons learned.
Healthy Family – Project HOPE is leading a consortium of preeminent international NGOs to implement a large-scale maternal/ child health and reproductive health program across three of the largest and most populous countries in Central Asia. An initial and instrumental step involved effecting national and regional policy in support of the Healthy Families Initiative. Integrated management of childhood illness, control of diarrheal diseases, pneumonia case management, immunization, and sexually transmitted infections programs benefited from the subsequent employment of international standards in infection prevention. Additional policy changes enabled improvements in contraceptive flow, aiding family planning activities. Intense provider training and capacity building at the Ministry of Health and health facility levels increases the capacity of physicians to provide quality maternal and newborn care. Complimentary breastfeeding and nutrition programs involve substantive and expansive community health education activities. Fathers, mothers, adolescents and grandmothers, led by local authorities and NGOs, teachers, health-providers and religious leaders, participate in health promotion activities and disseminate health education messages within their communities and across generations.
Timeline
| 2002 |
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Child Survival program begins in Jalalabat; Healthy Family program begins in four Central Asian countries |
| 2004 |
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Current region-wide tuberculosis program begins |
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