Youth are involved in community campaigns to inform villagers about new services offered at TAHSEEN Project renovated rural health units in Upper Egypt. One-on-one contact facilitates an exchange of information about the integrated family planning, reproductive health and maternal and child health services offered at renovated health units and contributes to increased client flow. Courtesy of Photoshare.
Integration of services

"Integrated services are a proactive approach to addressing clients’ broader reproductive health needs, so your providers have the opportunity to prevent a problem that without integrated services would have been treated only after it occurred. And it is also an opportunity to treat a problem early in the etiology of the problem that without integrated services would have been treated after it interfered with the client’s quality of life."
-Heidi Reynolds
 

Integrating family planning with related health services offers many potential benefits.
Integration of services can help programs to:

  • Offer clients greater convenience
  • Reach a broader audience
  • Provide a greater range of services
  • Reach beneficiary groups not always seen at family planning clinics such as men, youth, and unmarried women
  • Address unmet need for contraception
  • Make services more cost-effective
  • Expand access to services.

 
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