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PAIMAN Brochure
PAIMAN Brochure

SUCCESS STORIES
Success Stories

MEDIA PRODUCTS
PAIMAN Music Video 1
Paiman music video

PAIMAN Music Video 2

Paiman music video

PAIMAN Drama Series

PAIMAN Drama Series
   
   
ABOUT PAIMAN  
   
The situation of maternal, newborn and child health in Pakistan is one of the poorest in South Asia. Despite some improvements in the 1990s, Pakistan has lagged behind many of it neighbors in terms of health and population outcomes. The infant mortality rate of 78 per 1000 live births and a recently calculated maternal mortality rate of 276 per 100,000 live births are both higher than other neighboring South Asian countries. Very high fertility rates, a high unmet need for family planning and very low rates of skilled birth attendance are some of the fundamental underlying causes for the poor health of women and children in Pakistan. There are numerous additional factors affecting this situation, including political instability, poor governance, rising religious conservatism and militancy, a vastly under-resourced public social sector, and a poorly functioning public sector health service delivery system at the district level. (more)  
   
 

 PAIMAN UPDATES:
 
  • Information about maternal and newborn health care issues reached 7.3 million individuals in 24 PAIMAN districts.
  • 97 public health facilities upgraded and equipped to provide emergency obstetric care services in 24 districts, two Frontier, and two FATA Agencies.
  • 2,204 public health care providers trained in Essential Maternal and Newborn Care.
  • More than 40 hours of diverse, film, television, and radio productions on MNCH issues---a commercial feature film, a drama series, a series of television magazine shows, and radio talk shows.
  • 8.1 million women of reproductive age reached through the TV drama series Paiman.
  •  40,000 villagers reached with MNCH messages via puppet shows.
  • 300,000 delivered PAIMAN messages in remote areas via mobile TV vans.
  • 1,000 ulama sensitized and networked on MNCH issues and their role in ensuring the same; in their Friday sermons, ulama now often preach about healthy and safe practices.
  • Over 400 journalists trained on reporting on MNCH issues.
  • PAIMAN Communication, Advocacy and Mobilization Strategy adopted by National MNCH Program.
  • 96 sub-grants awarded to local NGOs to reach non-covered population by organizing free health camps, establish birthing centers, and promoting MNCH awareness.
  • 76 purpose-built ambulances provided for emergency obstetric cases and other emergencies.
  • 50 Suzuki vans converted to ambulances for use by communities in five districts to transport patients to health facilities.
  • 1,623 students supported for CMW training.
  • 1,600 CMW homes being supplied with essential equipment and furnishings.
  • 76 women who received PAIMAN support for under-matriculation (10th Grade) education successfully passed the matriculation examination and are available for CMW training.
  • 82 women from remote Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa and Balochistan areas received educational support to under middle (8th Grade) education to qualify as LHWs.
  • 189 private health care providers signed agreements to regularly provide data on key MNCH performance indicators.
  • Functional Integration of Services between Health and Population Welfare Departments and integration of family planning services at the district level initiated in selected districts.
  • 176,910 Clean Deliver Kits distributed.
  • 3,000 insecticide-treated bednets provided to pregnant ladies for prevention of malaria.
     
     
PAIMAN PUBLICATIONS    

 
   
Ulama Report  

PAIMAN has networked over 800 Ulama of all sects. Ulama are using their voluntary service to reach out to general populace with behavior change messages regarding health and well-being of mothers and children. The evaluation report presents the results of this unique Ulama Intervention.

Health Facility Assessment: Summary Findings

Ulama Book  

The third edition of “Role of Religious Scholars in Ensuring the Health of Mother and Newborns” published with inputs from various religious scholars on previous editions. This book served as the primary source of material for ulama in their advocacy work at the community level.

Health Facility Assessment: Summary Findings

CAM Strategy  

Communication, Advocacy and Mobilization (CAM) describes the detailed outline of communication, advocacy and community mobilization activities being implemented during the life of PAIMAN project (2005 – 2010).

Health Facility Assessment: Summary Findings  

 
District Health Profiles  

PAIMAN project has prepared district health profiles with an objective to provide basic information about the project districts with particular focus on district health system. It provides overview on district specific topography, demography, health indicators & fertility behavior, administrative... (more).

District Health Profiles
 

 
Baseline Publications  

Population Council is a lead partner in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of the project to ensure that the success of PAIMAN is properly ascertained, and that the appropriate lessons are learned. The M&E Plan includes the establishment... (more).

Baseline Documents

Qualitative Formative Research Findings  

PAIMAN carried out formative research study from September 2005 to May 2006 in seven districts, 3 in Punjab (DG Khan, Khanewal and Rawalpindi), 2 in Sindh (Dadu and Sukkur) and one each in Balochistan (Jaffarabad) and NWFP(Buner)...(more).

Qualitative Formative Research Findings

Health Facility Assessment  

Existing health care delivery system, both in the public and private sector, was assessed through Health Facilities Assessment (HFA) in 10 PAIMAN districts. Overall objective of the assessment was to describe the availability, functioning and quality of health care delivery system in the... (more).

Health Facility Assessment: Summary Findings

Repository  

This Repository provides a brief overview of the number of communication and advocacy products, produced for PAIMAN by CCP in first five years of the implementation of the project as part of the CAM strategy for reaching out to various audiences.

Health Facility Assessment: Summary Findings

   
 
   
 

 
U.S. – Pakistan Strategic Dialogue On Health
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U.S. Celebrates 110 Newly Graduated Community Midwives
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U.S. Provides Medical Equipment to Jacobabad
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Midwives get kits for clinics
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One-fifth of MCH centres do not have maternity kits
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U.S. Supports Health Training in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
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U.S. And Sindh Congratulate 72 Newly Graduated Community Midwives
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Experts share views on maternal health
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Maternal Deaths Fall Worldwide from a Half-Million Annually to Less That 350,000
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Training of midwives urged
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PAKISTAN: Community Midwives Gain Recognition But Concerns Remain
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Interactive workshop to train midwives ‘15,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications annually’
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Unsafe abortions cause over 10pc
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Population control plan launched in Pakistan
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Newborn mortality rate in Pakistan highest in Asia’
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Call to raise awareness about family planning
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PAKISTAN: Warning over maternal, infant mortality goals
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Family planning programme shows improvement in terms of coverage
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Family planning programme shows improvement in terms of coverage
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South Asia hotspot for maternal, child undernutrition: UNICEF
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CA # 391-A-00-05-01037-00 project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development
and implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. in conjunction with Aga Khan University, Contech International ,
 Johns Hopkins University/CCP, The Population Council, and Save the Children USA.


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