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USAID Launches A New $60 Million Child-Spacing And Reproductive- Health Program
02/12/08
Islamabad - The United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) launched today a five-year, $60 million flagship program on
child spacing called ‘Family Advancement for Life and Health’ (FALAH).
“FALAH
is a visionary program that applies lessons learned during the past 40
years about how to deliver family planning services effectively and
explores new solutions to the many challenges facing Pakistan’s family
planning programs,” said Anne Aarnes, the Mission Director of USAID in
Pakistan. “What we learn from the FALAH program will help parents to
space the births of their children and will significantly benefit
Pakistani families.”
USAID’s FALAH program focuses on
revitalizing the family planning efforts in Pakistan. The program will
increase the accessibility and use of contraceptives and birth spacing
that will help in reducing high rates of maternal and infant mortality
in Pakistan.
FALAH is being implemented by a number of Pakistani
and international organization with Population Council, a US-based
research organization, leading the consortium. It is being implemented
in 20 districts in Pakistan. These include: Gwadar, Jaffarabad,
Kech/Turbat, Khuzdar, Lasbela, and Zhob in Balochistan, Battagram,
Buner, Charsadda, Lakki Marwat, Swat, and Upper Dir in NWFP, Dera Ghazi
Khan and Jhelum in Punjab, and Dadu, Ghotki, Larkana, Sanghar, Sukkur,
and Thatta in Sindh.
Support for this project is part of the
$1.5 billion in aid that the U.S. Government is providing to Pakistan
over five years to improve economic growth, education, health, and
governance and to assist with earthquake reconstruction.