Afghanistan

Date established	2002
Services offered	Family planning; health screening; HIV/STIs; maternal health; social marketing; young people
Number of clinics	15
Outreach / mobile services	Not yet
Social marketing products & brands	Condoms: Aramish Contraceptive pill: Feminyl Contraceptive injection: Aramish Femiject IUD: Aramish Femi-T
Major partners	Ministries of Education, Health, Religious Affairs & Women’s Affairs
Major donors	Government of Finland; Direct Relief International; Jersey Overseas Aid Commission; Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).
Contact details	Marie Stopes International Afghanistan House 193 Main Street, Karti Chahar, in front of 3rd Police Station, Kabul Afghanistan Telephone: + 93 752 011 504 Email: pd@msi-afg.org

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Highlights

introduced mobile clinics project, working from Kabul, Mazar and Hirat
started training project to help build capacity of government, private sector and other NGOs
introduced one of the country’s first condom brands, “Aramish” in 2002. Full year sales in 2008 reached 1,789,905
expanded the social marketing programme to include the brands Aramish Femiject (a 3 month injectable), Aramish Femi-T (an IUD) and Feminyl, (an oral contraceptive pill). The introduction of these brands has helped Marie Stopes International Afghanistan to double the number of couples it protects from unplanned pregnancies
published a document on family planning endorsed by the Ministry of Religious Affairs.

Publications

09/05/2004, PDF, 483KB

A study to understand barriers to the use of family planning and other reproductive health (RH) services in Afghanistan.

Categories: Afghanistan, Contraception

08/05/2004, PDF, 92.8KB

Overview of a study to understand barriers to the use of family planning and other reproductive health (RH) services in Afghanistan.

Categories: Afghanistan, Contraception

Condoms distributed in Afghanistan in 2008

Clinics in Afghanistan

open 7 new clinics, in Kabul, Mazar and Herat
add implants and female condoms to range of family planning methods
increase number of sterilisation services provided through clinics
expand social marketing/community health systems further
increase the community health worker training scheme to improve access to family planning in rural areas

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