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Assists local governments, private sector and communities to improve the delivery of family planning and health services, including the prevention of infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.
Nationwide projects including Mindanao
Local Government Health Services - Provides performance based grants to local government units to strengthen family planning, immunization, vitamin A distribution and other health services; enhances the quality of health services in public facilities through standard setting and awards; develops and improves the capacity to provide voluntary sterilization in selected public and private health facilities including four hospitals in Mindanao.
Midwife Entrepreneurs -- Increases private sector participation in the provision of family planning and maternal and child health services through a franchise network of private midwife clinics. USAID supports some 81 midwife clinics operating in Mindanao.
Contraceptive Self-Reliance -- Ensures national responsibility for contraceptive supply by advocating increased domestic spending for contraceptives, promoting national and local government cost sharing for contraceptives, and promoting increased private participation in the provision of family planning services.
Family Planning Communications -- Supports family planning communication and advocacy program of the Department of Health, the Commission on Population and other groups to increase the social acceptability of family planning. Special focus in Mindanao, particularly in ARMM, is the dissemination of the national fatwa (Islamic opinion), issued in March 2004, in support of reproductive health and family planning.
HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Prevention -Supports monitoring and education activities in two major cities in Mindanao, both of which have experienced increases in high HIV risk populations due to the recent strife; strengthens public health systems to better diagnose and treat TB, malaria and dengue; strengthens tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment among private physicians and clinics.
Vitamin A Supplementation and Micronutrient Fortification -- Boosts Vitamin A supplementation in 14 cities and provinces in Mindanao with the highest levels of vitamin A deficiency; makes Vitamin A, iron and iodine fortified foods widely available in order to increase the micronutrient intake, particularly among pre-school children and women of reproductive age.
Health Policy and Advocacy -- Supports the creation and promotion of an environment conducive to programs and systems that will improve the delivery of services for family planning, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases.
Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) - specific
Enhanced and Rapid Improvement of Community Health (EnRICH) - Provides grants to help address local specific health conditions, focusing on family planning, maternal & child health and tuberculosis. An activity is building the capability of government health workers to provide family planning counseling and integrated management of childhood illnesses.