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population and family planning sexual and reproductive health maternal and child health hiv and aids infectious diseases gender poverty and equity
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famplan
policy and advocacy research and strategic information ealth markets and private sector h engagement modeling and economic analysis health systems strengthening strategic consulting program management
demproj Makes demographic projections based on data and assumptions about fertility, mortality, and migration. aids impact model (aim) Projects HIV prevalence, new infections, AIDS deaths, tuberculosis cases and orphans.
male circumcision decision makers program planning tool (dmppt) food security and population
Projects the cost of Male Circumcision (MC) services and estimates the impact on the HIV epidemic. Estimates the impact of resource allocation patterns on HIV prevalence and treatment requirements.
Links population projections to estimates of food requirements and projections of food production and consumption as well as child malnutrition.
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Record of Results:
Projected the cost and impact of various options in 14 eastern and southern African countries for scaling-up male circumcision services to reach 80 percent of adults and newborn males by 2015. Prepared more than 30 country-level cost-benefit analyses that compared the costs of family planning with the benefits of achieving Millennium Development Goals targets and reducing unmet need for family planning. Estimated the unit cost, resource requirements, and resource gaps for the national Orphans and Vulnerable Children plans of action in Cambodia and Ethiopia.
Nassira is from Mali. A young mother of three, she was married at the age of 15 and had her first child by 17. Nassira has been pregnant five times, and has always given birth at home. She has never used family planning methods. She did not have the opportunity to attend school. Her husband makes all the decisions about household purchases and may beat her if she challenges his decisions. Nassiras story is not uniqueit can be heard throughout Mali. Nassira is the average woman in this West African nation. What if we could improve the lives of Malian women and their families by improving family planning, girls education, and gender norms? What if, through telling Nassiras story, decision makers had information to understand the realities in their country and the impact of improved health and well-being? With funding from USAID and the Packard Foundation, Futures Group has developed an interactive software tool called RAPID/Women. It calculates how family planning positively impacts the quality of life for women, girls, and families, and contributes to overall development efforts. The model, which was pilot-tested in Mali, weaves statistics into a story that help to humanize and make for a stronger, more compelling argument for increased investments in family planning and reproductive health interventions.
RAPID/Women:
Models help us to connect the dots between seemingly unconnected variables in a dynamic world. They help us to understand the magnitude and importance of synergies between program interventions. RAPID/Women shows that the impact of family planning on the quality of life can be more than doubled if coupled with improvements in girls education and changes in gender norms. Scott Moreland Senior Fellow Futures Group
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