Workshop delivers new opportunities for Pacific outreach teams
Suva - MSI Pacific’s participation in the Building Sustainable Partnerships Workshop with the Ministry of Health has led to a number of very promising new opportunities for the MSI outreach team.
The workshop attracted all head nurses and family planning nurses from Fiji’s Western division, giving the MSI team a great opportunity. During the workshop, the delegates assessed the current level of SRH services provided in the Western division.
The next step was to design a joint work plan to identify and respond to unmet need. This plan has now been ratified and circulated to all nurses in the division. As a result of the workshop, MSI Pacific now has new partnerships with all six Western sub-divisions: Sigatoka, Rakiraki, Lautoka, Ba, Nadi and Tavua.
As of June, the MSI Pacific outreach team will be spending three weeks per month in the Western - and later Central – districts of Fiji, providing family planning services to remote village areas. Their key objective is to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancy and STIs, including HIV, among the islanders, by providing access to quality SRH services and - crucially - condoms.
This initiative will target over 400,000 Fijians, including women, men, commercial
sex workers and men having sex with men.