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Medics, media form joint team on family planning
2007-06-12 09:33:21
By Guardian Reporter
A committee comprising six people has been formed to look into how best to promote joint medical and media practitioners involvement in strengthening family planning in the country using quality of care perspectives.
The committee was formed at the end of a four-day workshop held in Dar es Salaam last week under the auspices of Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care (RCQHC) and the Association of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians of Tanzania (AGOTA) with support from the American development agency, USAID.
Elected members are Professor Siriel Massawe, Dr. Projestine Muganyinzi and Dr. Mdegela on the medical practitioners’ side, and Razia Mwawanga, Rose Japhet and Michael Haonga on the media practitioners` part.
The committee will focus on how family planning can effectively be both a medical and media practitioners’ joint agenda and how to create increased awareness among family planning stakeholders.
Over 60 participants at the four-day workshop dwelt on effective joint involvement in family planning, which includes enabling married couples and individuals decide when to have children and essential family care.
The participants underscored the importance of country-specific traditional values and priorities to avoid transplanting family planning approaches which, even if they could work in one country, may not do so in another.
Two family planning objectives covered under the regional programme were the development of a package of key regional level actions required to reposition and strengthen the practice of family planning in eastern and central Africa in the areas of quality of care and policy.
The other objective was identification of needs/gaps to be addressed at policy level and in the political and social milieu in the respective regional member countries.
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