Family Health International

1. Family Health International

2. Mission To improve lives worldwide through the synergistic strengths of research and programs in public health.

3. History • FHI grew from a contraceptive research project that began at the University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill in 1971 Began as the International Fertility Research Program, but eventually grew from family planning… to reproductive health… to prevention of HIV!

4. 2 Main Branches: • Research • RTP • Public Health Programs --Wash.DC

5. RESEARCH • Behavioral, biomedical and health services research

6. RESEARCH • Support global health priorities • Contraception • Reproductive health • HIV, malaria, rotavirus, and other infectious diseases

7. RESEARCH WHAT SPECIFICALLY? Contraception to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

8. RESEARCH WHAT SPECIFICALLY? Providing the Evidence Base for Over-the Counter Emergency Contraception (Plan B)

9. Public Health Programs • Applied research in 60 developing countries • Including HAITI!

10. Public Health Programs Prevention of HIV, Tuberculosis Remember this?

11. Public Health Programs • Care, support, and treatment of those already infected

12. So this is all a little vague, right?? How about some examples of what FHI is currently doing to support global health…

13. Delivering Comprehensive Care

14. Delivering Comprehensive Care… MOSCHTA brings health services to the bateys through mobile clinics and home-based care. …ByBringing health services to the bateys

15. Protecting the Vulnerable We know HIV is preventable, but these services are not always available. Even when they are, their availability is squandered. By what?

16. Protecting the Vulnerable Ignorance, denial, stigma, discrimination, gender inequality, cost, and MORE!

17. Protecting the Vulnerable… Mrs. J. Bhadri, 25, distributes medicines at a sexually transmitted infection clinic in a slum area near her home in Andhra Pradesh. …by helping the wives of truck drivers

18. Protecting the Vulnerable… FHI has provided prevention care and support services to 360,000 migrants and truckers in India to reduce the risk that their wives will acquire HIV. …by helping the wives of truck drivers

19. Reaching Out to Those at Risk RECAP: Who is at particular risk for HIV??

20. Reaching Out to Those at Risk Sex workers, men who have sex with men, injection drug users, migrant workers, police and military are all at HIGH RISK.

21. Reaching Out to Those at Risk What’s limiting their access to necessary services of prevention and treatment?

22. Reaching Out to Those at Risk STIGMATIZATION & DISENFRANCHISEMENT

23. Reaching Out to Those at Risk… …by Introducing injection drug users to critical services

24. Reaching Out to Those at Risk… Peer educators—often former drug addicts—bring care, treatment and educational opportunities to people sharing needles in Jakarta, Indonesia. …by Introducing injection drug users to critical services INDONESIA

25. Reaching Out to Those at Risk… Magda, 25, a former injection drug user, is now one of its most effective field workers. …by Introducing injection drug users to critical services INDONESIA

26. Helping Families Help Themselves Remember when we talked about the effect of HIV on children? Remember all of those orphans?

27. Helping Families Help Themselves… …by supporting family caregivers

28. Helping Families Help Themselves… FHI works with a local organization, Khemara, to support families coping with HIV and AIDS. …by supporting family caregivers CAMBODIA

29. Helping Families Help Themselves… Staff also provide counseling under an HIV counseling and testing program. …by supporting family caregivers CAMBODIA

30. Helping Families Help Themselves… CAMBODIA

31. Helping Families Help Themselves… “He is my neighbor and the father of my friend,” Cham Prea says. “I learned I can’t get HIV/AIDS by treating him.”

32. A Short Recap • FHI: NGO that grew from a research project at UNC-CHAPEL HILL • Mission: Improve lives worldwide through • Research • Programs in Global Health

33. A Short Recap • RESEARCH • Behavioral, biomedical and health services research • Support Global Health Priorities • Examples: • MTC Transmission of HIV Study • Argument for OTC Plan B

34. A Short Recap • Programs in Public Health • Applied research in over 60 countries • Prevention of HIV & tuberculosis • Care, treatment for those afflicted by HIV/AIDS, TB, and other infectious diseases or viruses.

35. A Short Recap • Delivering comprehensive care… …by delivering health services to the bateys (Dominican Republic)

36. A Short Recap • Protecting the Vulnerable …by helping the wives of truck drivers (India)

37. A Short Recap • Reaching out to those at risk… …by introducing injection drug users to critical services (Indonesia)

38. A Short Recap • Helping families help themselves… …by supporting family caregivers (Cambodia)

39. “Family Health International is dedicated to improving lives, knowledge and understanding worldwide through a diversified program of research, education and services in family health. Since 1971, we have worked with national governments and local communities throughout the developing world to meet the public health needs of some of the world’s most vulnerable people, supporting lasting improvements in the health of individuals and their families.”

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