Private Providers: A Vast Untapped Resource to Improve Women's Health

This brief discusses the following key points:

Networks of private providers can be highly effective in reaching women with Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH) services.
Advantages: service delivery points are already in place, often financially sustainable, and have excess capacity. Private midwives provide 46% of all contraceptive use in Indonesia.
A "linking organization" is key to link providers, identify incentives, develop a plan to meet service objectives and broker training, supplies, quality, and outreach to customers.

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English (49.34k)

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2 p

Year:

2005

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INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs

Languages:

English

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