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2206-54247

Creating a Community Based Self Sustaining Ecosystem for Improving Abortion Access

  Greenstar Social Marketing Pakistan         Pakistan

Innovator Story: Pioneering Accessible SRHR in Pakistan 

Greenstar Social Marketing Pakistan aims to decentralize abortion care and create an enabling environment that is safe and accessible for clients through community health workers (Sitara Baji) houses – a designated confined home-based solution. The Sitara Baji’s home will be converted to a Sitara House and become a community health hub for women and girls. The Sitara Bajis will be recruited and trained to deliver a holistic self-care package, including medical abortion, family planning, menstrual health and hygiene, mental health awareness, breast self-examination and pregnancy testing. The homes will as well offer primary health education and screening (such as health communication materials, weighing scales, blood pressure monitors and pregnancy testing kits) and be stocked with misoprostol, emergency contraceptive pills, condoms and sanitary pads. Tablets with 24/7 connectivity to a physician will be provided to Sitara Bajis, in case needed to help guide misoprostol administration and education on self-care packages. Additionally, Sitara Bajis will engage in outreach activities with community members and stakeholders to increase awareness and generate trust.

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2011-36110

Community Self-managed menstrual regulation with pills in Sindh Pakistan

  Peace Foundation                Pakistan

Peace Foundation addresses the supply and demand of self-administered safe menstrual regulation options in 120 rural villages. To improve supply, Peace Foundation trains and equips sellers at sales outlets with medication, information, counselling aids, and referral mechanisms for safe menstrual regulation and self-injected methods for family planning. These outlets are established at grocery stores, women-run shops and by donkey cart vegetable sellers. Health service providers and pharmacists assist women and girls with more complicated cases referred by the sellers, and are also involved in improving the supply of medications to local chemist shops. Peace Foundation will simultaneously address demand by disseminating information on misoprostol to women and girls, sensitizing village leaders, and conducting edutainment activities.

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1902-31741

CHOICE: Communicating to HER Options via Information, Care Coordination & Empathy

  DoctHERs                      Pakistan

doctHERs provides personalized information and guidance around safe abortion services to underserved women in Pakistan, including female factory workers across rural and peri-urban village communities. doctHERs will deploy trusted up-skilled frontline care coordinators, who will use tablets with 4G internet connectivity to connect with marginalized women and girls. The care coordinators will refer them to a nationwide network of established safe abortion providers and family planning services via HD video-consultation.

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1902-31826

Addressing barriers to young people access to MR/PAC services and De-stigmatizing Uterine Evacuation/Post Abortion Care (PAC)

  Rahnuma – Family Planning Association of Pakistan                     Pakistan

Family Planning Association of Pakistan provides menstrual regulation and post-abortion care services to women and girls at five clinics in semi-urban areas of Pakistan and through monthly mobile camps. The clinics will provide safe uterine evacuation/post abortion care (PAC) services including counseling, medical and surgical uterine evacuation, treatment of complications, and post-abortion contraceptive services. To reduce stigma related to these services, service providers at the clinics and youth peer educators will be trained on value clarification and attitude transformation and de-stigmatization. The trained youth peer educators will then organize sensitization sessions with local youth and with community members.