Community-Based Family Planning Program in Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and Uganda

Linking with Pathfinder’s successful community home-based care project for HIV and AIDS, this project is part of the largest community-based network for family planning and HIV service integration in Tanzania.

Since its inception, the project has provided almost 116,000 reproductive health and family planning visits, resulting in more than 26,000 family planning acceptors.

This was a three-year community-based project to increase access to HIV and AIDS care and family planning and reproductive health services in Tanzania, Uganda, and Papua New Guinea, as well as to improve access to clean water at project health facilities and in targeted communities

Project Objectives

• Increase demand for and utilization of family planning services integrated with HIV/AIDS services—home-based care (HBC) and home counseling and testing (HCT)—in the targeted communities
• Increase access to family planning services among people living with HIV/AIDS and their primary caregivers
• Enhance capacity for the provision of facility and community-based family planning services among targeted communities
• Create a supportive environment for the delivery and utilization of quality family planning services integrated with HIV/AIDS (HBC and HCT) services in targeted communities
• Increase access to clean water techniques and improve hygiene and sanitation practices at clinic and community levels