Health Program

URBAN HEALTH INITIATIVE (UHI) Program For Family Planning (Aligarh & Agra)

URBAN HEALTH INITIATIVE (UHI) Program For Family Planning (Aligarh & Agra)
GRAVIS has implemented UHI program for improving mother & child health in District Aligarh and Agra with an objective to reduce maternal & infant mortality rate by promoting family planning methods in urban slums of the Districts. GRAVIS reached a population of 162392 in 32 slums of Aligarh through the outreach and mobilization efforts of 9 outreach workers and 85 peer educators and a population of 161213 in 71 slums through the outreach and mobilization efforts of 7 outreach workers and 74 peer educators in Agra.

 The goal of UHI for implementing the program is to:

  • Contribute to a significant increase in contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) to reduce maternal and infant survival
  • To establish models and systems to facilitate National Urban Health Mission’s implementation
In this program we have organized so many activities to make the program successful and to increase the CPR upto 63.68322 which was 44.552936 in Agra in Sep, 2013 and in Aligarh the CPR is 20.64 which was 15.95 in 2011.
check ups, peer educators, workshops, and awareness campaigns.

Objectives

  1. Post partum and post abortion integration
  2. Quality and expanded service delivery
  3. Public private partnerships (social marketing; vouchers)
  4. Demand generation (client outreach and counseling, mid media, mass media)
    Policy and Advocacy
As result we can achieve CPR (LAMP) upto 29.64% till Aug-2014 which was 15.95 when we start the program in 2011. The services i.e Modern Method was 27.49% which is now 49.03%.