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Programme Component: Reproductive Health
The Reproductive Health Programme Component is designed
to help empower Lao women, men and adolescents to take care of their own reproductive
health. Important elements of this work are promoting increased utilization
of quality integrated reproductive health services offered through the primary
health care network, building knowledge and awareness among the population on
reproductive health and reproductive
rights. Interventions focus particularly on women, men, adolescents and
ethnic minority groups in remote areas. UNFPA is assisting the Ministry of Health
to fill gaps in coverage in under-served areas, as well as to improve and widen
the services it offers, with specific focus on: family planning; safe motherhood;
prevention of reproductive tract infections; including sexually transmitted
diseases and HIV/AIDS; health consequences of unsafe abortions; and safe and
responsible sexual behaviours, including promotion of male responsibility.
In addition to supporting the expansion of family planning services nationwide,
this component project supports the introduction of a core package of reproductive
health services through the primary health network in three poor and under-served
provinces in the south of the country: Attapeu, Sekong and Saravane.
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In Luang Namtha and Oudomxay provinces, as well as in the three southern provinces
where Component Project P01 operates, UNFPA supports efforts by the Lao Women's
Union to provide reproductive health information to women and adolescents, particularly
those from ethnic minority groups. In the three southern provinces, reproductive
health awareness-raising is being used as an entry point to discuss wider issues,
including gender equality.
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Component Project P03 sees UNFPA working with another mass organization, the
Lao Youth Union, also to provide reproductive health information to young people.
In Savannakhet and Champassak provinces, young volunteers from the Lao Youth
Union educate their peers on reproductive health issues, supported by a range
of youth-friendly information materials. UNFPA also provides technical assistance
to the Lao Youth Union at central level in order to build the organization's
capacities in the area of reproductive health.
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Under this component project, UNFPA collaborates with UNICEF to provide various
types of support for the Ministry of Education's programme providing education
on population, adolescent reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted
infections, drug and substance abuse, and life skills to children and young
people through the formal and non-formal education systems.
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The Reproductive Health component projects are designed
to realize the following inter-related outputs:
Output 1: Increased availability to women, men and
adolescents – with a special focus on members of ethnic minority groups – of
a core package of quality integrated reproductive health services and counseling
which includes: family planning; ante-natal, delivery and post-natal care; prevention
and treatment of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections
and prevention of HIV/AIDS; and management of post-abortion complications, in
the southern provinces of Saravane, Attapeu and Sekong, and in other selected
districts of the country;
Output 2: Improved availability of family planning
services, including contraceptives, for women, men and adolescents nationwide,
through the public sector;
Output 3: Enhanced knowledge and awareness of reproductive
health, reproductive rights, and gender equality among women, men and adolescents;
Output 4: Increased availability of adolescent reproductive
health information and services through special programmes in selected areas;
Output 5: Strengthening the capacity of:
- the Ministry of Health's Mother and Child Health Centre and provincial and
district health departments to plan, manage, implement and monitor reproductive
health and family planning programmes, and of the Ministry of Health's Centre
for Information and Education to produce different types of behaviour change
communication materials;
- The Lao Women's Union and the Lao Youth Union to implement community-based
reproductive health awareness programmes;
- the General Education and Non-formal Education Departments, the Department
of Teachers' Training, and the National Research Institute for Educational
Sciences of the Ministry of Education to implement sexuality education programmes;
- the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Faculty of Medicine
and the National Institute of Public Health to offer training in reproductive
health.
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