Launching the integrated counseling communication campaign to provide reproductive health care/family planning services in 2012

(Baonghean.vn) - This morning, March 2, at Nghia Dan district stadium, the Department of Health and the Department of Population/Family Planning of Nghe An province held a ceremony to launch the communication campaign for integrated consultation on providing reproductive health care/family planning services in 2012.

Attending the event were comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, representatives of departments, branches and provincial mass organizations, along with a large number of officials working on population work in 20 districts, cities and towns; and people from communes and towns of Nghia Dan district.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong presents gifts to the population committee of Nghia Hoi commune



Districts, cities and towns signed a commitment to implement the campaign.



Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong visited the service provision point in Nghia Hoi commune.




Distribute population communication leaflets to students

With the theme "Strengthening propaganda, mobilization, and integration of reproductive health care/family planning services to disadvantaged areas and densely populated areas with high birth rates", this year's campaign will be implemented in 191 remote communes. The specific targets set for each commune are: sterilization reaching 60% of the annual target, intrauterine devices reaching 75% of the annual target, 90% of couples of childbearing age being provided with information and counseling to improve their understanding of reproductive health.

The 2012 campaign is divided into 2 phases: phase 1 from March to the end of April 2012, phase 2 ends before October 2012. In each commune, the campaign lasts 7-8 days, including main activities of propaganda, counseling, mobilizing subjects to implement reproductive health care/family planning services, providing reproductive health care/family planning services...

Launching the campaign, comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong emphasized: Currently, population work in our province is facing three main risks and challenges: not reaching the replacement fertility rate, population quality and reproductive health care service quality are still limited; the rate of loss of sex at birth is still high. Therefore, launching the campaign aims to promote communication work, raise awareness, change behavior and provide services to people in remote areas, areas with high fertility rates, gradually limit the rate of third child births, improve population quality, strive to reach the replacement fertility rate...”

At the launching ceremony, the Population Centers of 20 districts and cities signed a commitment to implement the campaign's targets. On this occasion, the Department of Health and the Provincial Population Office presented amplifiers and loudspeakers for population communication work to the Population Committee of Nghia Hoi Commune (Nghia Dan); and organized a service point at the Nghia Hoi Commune Health Station.

Thanh Phuc