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

held family planning training meeting with local mullahs, which was featured in the New York Times
increased the number of clients served in 2009 by nearly 30% and distributed over one million condoms and 100,000 contraceptive pills

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 2009

grow social marketing and community health programmes to increase access to family planning and reproductive health services
increase private sector capacity by partnering with others to provide services
add female condoms, emergency contraception and contraceptive implants to the range of family planning services offered
expand the Community Health Worker training programme to improve access to family planning in rural areas of Afghanistan

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