Elements of Family Planning Success

The Assessing Integration Methodology (AIM) was developed by the Population Council to guide decisions regarding the feasibility, quality, and effectiveness of specific service combinations. The AIM handbook covers integration of family planning with the following services:

HIV counseling and testing
Postabortion care
Antenatal care
Detection and management of sexually transmitted infections
Postpartum care
Decisionmakers can use the AIM handbook to assess the feasibility of linking services, identify programmatic or structural barriers to integration, pilot-test approaches to integrating services, evaluate the effect of linked or integrated services, and assess and evaluate the costs of models to integrate services.

The handbook includes data-collecting forms to support and evaluate integration efforts, including forms for client and provider interviews, service and equipment inventory, and other documentation forms.