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ABOUT PAIMAN
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| 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) |
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- 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.
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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.
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| PAIMAN
PUBLICATIONS |
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Ulama Report |
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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. |
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Ulama Book |
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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. |
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CAM Strategy |
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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). |
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District Health Profiles |
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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). |
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Baseline Publications |
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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). |
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Qualitative Formative Research Findings |
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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). |
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Health Facility Assessment |
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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). |
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Repository |
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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. |
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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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