The most popular tool of the HTSP Toolkit is the HTSP Advocacy Powerpoint presentation. Most often used by advocates presenting HTSP to policymakers, decision makers, senior MOH personnel, and clinicians, Heather says, “the slides were designed to be selectively adopted and used based on specific country situations and audiences. One of the greatest attributes of the PowerPoint is that it has been generalized for local adaptability and includes data slides detailing the relationship between pregnancy spacing and health outcomes for women, infants, and children.”

Overall, the HTSP Core Group envisions the toolkit as the primary source of evidence-based knowledge on HTSP and resources for integrating HTSP into existing health and community programs and policies. The ESD Project, which has led the efforts in creating and populating the HTSP Toolkit, will be officially ending soon. However, the Toolkit serves as an electronic library of resources, so people can access the most up-to-date information and materials on healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies. Plus, an online discussion forum is already in the planning stages to be held in September 2011. The forum will be held through K4H and plans to engage HTSP Core Group members by inviting experts to contribute. 

Access the entire HTSP Toolkit on K4Health or users in developing countries with limited Internet access can request this and other K4Health Toolkits on flash drive or CD-ROM by emailing toolkits@k4health.org.

Take an eLearning Course on HTSP

Do you know the magnitude of health problems related to timing and spacing of pregnancies in the developing world? Do you want to know how to add a HTSP approach to your own program? USAID's Global Health eLearning Center recently announced the release of a new eLearning course on Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy.

 The course will cover how to implement HTSP strategies into your own programs. One-time registration at www.globalhealthlearning.org will give you free access to this and 50 other courses that cover a variety of global health topics.