El presente documento nos da un panorama sobre la situación en materia de salud de los y las jóvenes bolivianos en comunidades indígenas, con énfasis en la salud sexual y reproductiva, y presenta las respuestas desde el Estado y la sociedad civil a las necesidades de las poblaciones indígenas adolescentes y jóvenes, con el fin de orientar acciones futuras con ese grupo poblacional.

This publication presents a panorama of the health situation of Bolivian youth in indigenous communities, with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive health, and analyzes strategies to attend to the needs of indigenous youth with a view to shaping future policies.

Family Care International and UNFPA conducted participatory research with girls, boys, their families and local leaders in three rural communities, and developed the A Better Future for Rural Girls: Manager's Briefing Kit. All of the content from this resource is available online in PDF.

Released as a CD-ROM containing a set of user-friendly tools, including 70 PowerPoint slides, a user’s manual, and additional resources, designed for use in developing and giving presentations on a range of sexual and reproductive health and rights topics. Content from the CD-ROM is enabled online.

Estas fichas informativas, producidas por Women Deliver en colaboración con Family Care International, esbozan por qué los y las que toman las decisiones deben dar prioridad a salvar las vidas de las madres y los recién nacidos, y las inversiones clave que deberán realizar para lograr ese objetivo. Diseñado para ser usado por legisladores, grupos de la sociedad civil y activistas, Apuntar al 5 detalla por qué el mundo necesita invertir ahora en salud materna, neonatal y reproductiva, y las acciones estratégicas requeridas para mejorar los servicios de salud vitales para las madres y sus recién nacidos en el mundo en desarrollo.

This educational manual (“Notes on the impact that public policies have on safe motherhood and the sexual and reproductive health of indigenous women”) explains the implications of public policies; the role of civil society in shaping public policies; what they consist of; and how they are designed, decided, implemented and monitored. It helps to foster the role of community health agents in ensuring that the demands of indigenous organizations translate into culturally pertinent public health policies.

Este manual didáctico explica qué son y en qué consisten las políticas públicas, cómo se diseñan, deciden, implementan y mantienen a lo largo del tiempo, y la importancia de incidir sobre las mismas a través de la demanda político-social que se genera desde el desarrollo de las capacidades colectivas. Así, explica el rol de los agentes de salud comunitarios para favorecer que las exigencias de las organizaciones indígenas se traduzcan en políticas públicas de salud efectivas.

El objetivo de este documento es guiar la sistematización de experiencias de prevención del embarazo adolescente tanto de los ministerios como de organizaciones de la sociedad civil bajo la óptica de “buenas prácticas”. La herramienta se construyó participativamente a partir de los procesos de sistematización de iniciativas que emprendieron los Ministerios de Salud de los seis países del Plan Andino para la Prevención del Embarazo en Adolescentes — Chile, Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia y Venezuela — entre 2008 y 2009, describe sus lecciones aprendidas y presenta una guía para la comunicación de aprendizajes.

This document is a guide for systematizing best practices in prevention of adolescent pregnancy, based on government and civil society experience. It describes a process conducted in 2008 and 2009 by Ministries of Health from the six member countries of the Andean Plan to Reduce Unwanted Teenage and Adolescent Pregnancy (Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela) to analyze their teen pregnancy initiatives using a best-practices lens, and outlines lessons learned.

Skilled maternity care is recognized as a critical key to reducing maternal mortality. Today in many developing countries, however, more than half of women go through childbirth without such care. These women suffer disproportionately from pregnancy and childbirth complications that, far too often, lead to death or serious disability. In 2000, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCI launched the five-year Skilled Care Initiative, to improve pregnancy and childbirth care in more than 100 health facilities in four poor rural districts of Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Tanzania. This publication reports on qualitative research that gathered information on community member’s  shared attitudes, values and beliefs about maternal health services.

Los presentes módulos de capacitación, adaptado de ¡Cuídate!: Una guía de salud y bienestar, fueron desarrollados para prestadores/as de servicios de consejería médica a mujeres en edad reproductiva, mujeres embarazadas y madres de niños/as menores de dos años. Los mismos abordan de forma integral y con un enfoque de derechos temas relevantes a la salud sexual y reproductiva y salud materna.

These training modules, adapted from ¡Cuídate!: Una guía de salud y bienestar, were developed for use by Bolivian health care providers for counseling women of childbearing age, pregnant women, and mothers of children under two. They contain comprehensive information on sexual and reproductive health and maternal health, including the rights to health and services of this population.

Ces publications, développées par FCI-Mali en collaboration avec le Ministère de la Santé de la République du Mali, fournissent aux facilitateurs un curriculum pour aider les parents maliens, à travers des petits groupes de travail, à apprendre à parler avec leurs enfants, adolescent(e)s et jeunes de la contraception et d’autres sujets de santé sexuelle et reproductive. Les documents sont disponibles en français, en arabe et en bambara (bamanankan), les trois langues principales du Mali.

This set of publications (Curriculum for Training Parents: Communicating with Children, Adolescents, and Young People about Sexual and Reproductive Health), developed by FCI-Mali in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Mali, provides facilitators with a curriculum for helping Malian parents, through small group workshops, to learn to talk with their children and adolescents about contraception and other reproductive health issues. It is available in French, Arabic, and Bambara (Bamanankan), Mali’s three most common languages.

Esta publicación sistematiza los esfuerzos del Ministerio de Salud Pública (MSP) del Ecuador para mejor adecuar sus programas y políticas de salud materna al contexto pluricultural y multiétnico ecuatoriano.

This Spanish-language publication reviews the efforts of the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health (MOH) to better adapt its maternal health policies and programs to Ecuador’s multicultural and multiethnic context.

This publication, produced by FCI/Ecuador, ECUARUNARI, Interarts and FLACSO, with the support of AECID and the technical assistance of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador, presents the results of a survey on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of indigenous communities regarding HIV in Ecuador.

En la intimidad del buen vivir es la sistematización del estudio sobre conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas sobre VIH y pueblos indígenas realizado en Ecuador por FCI/Ecuador, ECUARUNARI, Interarts y FLACSO, con el apoyo de la AECID y el aval técnico del Ministerio de Salud Pública del Ecuador.

Developed as part of the project “Cultural factors to prevent the spread of HIV among indigenous women in Ecuador,” this publication analyses public policies related to HIV and indigenous populations in Ecuador from an intercultural perspective.

Una publicación elaborada en el marco del proyecto “Factores culturales para la prevención del VIH en mujeres indígenas del Ecuador” es una aproximación al enfoque intercultural en las políticas públicas referidas a VIH y pueblos indígenas en Ecuador.

“Jóvenes y derechos: mensajes para incidir en la esfera pública” está dirigida a organizaciones o personas que quieran abogar por el ejercicio de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, y en particular para la prevención del embarazo en adolescentes. La misma servirá de respaldo a estrategias de incidencia política y de comunicación que no solamente influyan en la política pública o la participación ciudadana, sino que además contribuyan a fortalecer la ciudadanía, y a ampliar la cultura democrática y de derechos humanos. La publicación fue elaborada en el marco del Plan Andino para la Prevención del Embarazo en Adolescentes (PLANEA).

This publication is a tool for groups, organizations or individuals who want to engage in advocacy to promote the exercise of reproductive rights, in particular the prevention of unwanted teen pregnancies. The tool is intended to support, not only advocacy and communications strategies to influence public policy and participation, but also to foster citizenship, and expand the culture of democracy and human rights. It was prepared under the Andean Plan for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy (PLANEA).

L'Avenir Appartient á Celles Qui Se Lévent Tôt Flipchart includes 12 themes addressing the specific health-related and socioeconomic concerns of rural girls.

This advocacy curriculum, developed in the Dominican Republic and pre-tested with youth networks in Argentina and Peru, is designed to foster the involvement of young people in public policy discussions and strengthen their demands for rights-based sexual and reproductive health laws at the local level.

These seven cards were designed to enable indigenous women in Bolivia to know and understand the new legislation that protects their sexual and reproductive rights and ways to promote its application.

Elaboradas en forma participativa con las mujeres indígenas de Bolivia, estas siete cartillas son una herramienta creada para fortalecer sus conocimientos acerca de las leyes y la normativa relacionada a su salud y sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos y las formas de asegurar su cumplimiento y de acceder a los servicios de salud.

En 2010, el Grupo de Trabajo Regional para la Reducción de la Mortalidad Materna (GTR) reunió a más de 80 mujeres líderes de América Latina y el Caribe en la Conferencia Regional de Mujeres Líderes: “Muerte materna: romper el silencio, sumar nuestras voces” (Lima, Perú). La memoria recoge las presentaciones de las y los participantes y una síntesis de los debates en las mesas de diálogo, así como la declaración final.

The Regional Task Force for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality (GTR) gathered more than 80 women leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean at the Regional Conference of Women Leaders: "Maternal death: breaking the silence, adding our voices" (Lima, Peru, May 27-28, 2010). The report includes key presentations and statements as well as the final declaration. (Available in Spanish.)

Developed by Family Care International and Gynuity Health Projects, the Misoprostol for Postpartum Hemorrhage Information Kit contains several recent publications: 

• Postpartum Hemorrhage: A challenge for safe motherhood provides an overview of one of the major causes of maternal death and disability in developing countries: severe bleeding following childbirth
• Postpartum Hemorrhage: Responding to the Challenge outlines the potential role of a widely available drug (misoprostol) in reducing deaths from postpartum hemorrhage, and describes a multi-country initiative being undertaken to evaluate misoprostol as an alternative therapy for postpartum hemorrhage prevention and treatment.
• Misoprostol for the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage: Misoprostol for the Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage: Findings from Clinical Research Trial in Chitral, Pakistan is a briefing card that describes the lastest research on the use of misoprostol for prevention of post-partum hemorrhage during home births.
  
• Misoprostol for the Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage: Findings from Clinical Research Trials is a briefing card summarizing the findings of clinical research on the use of misoprostol to treat post-partum hemorrhage.

All publications are available in English, French, and Spanish.

FCI has released an Advocacy Toolkit for Programme Managers that carefully lays out the steps in designing and launching an advocacy strategy to ensure that existing government commitments are translated into concrete programs and services. The Advocacy Training Guide, a companion piece to the Toolkit, was developed to strengthen the skills of grassroots community-level groups, networks, and organizations to design and plan an advocacy campaign.

Estos diagnósticos recogen el proceso y los resultados de los talleres nacionales participativos realizados en Perú, Bolivia y Ecuador en el marco del proyecto “Mujer Indígena: Salud y Derechos”. En ellos las mujeres indígenas de los tres países han identificado los principales retos y oportunidades y consensuado las líneas prioritarias de acción en cuanto a su salud y derechos, incluyendo sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos.

These publications present the results of the national participatory workshops conducted in Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, as part of the project “Indigenous Women: Health and Rights”, funded by UNFPA and the Spanish Agency for International Development (AECID).

“Indigenous women: sexual rights and reproductive rights”  aims to meet the demand from Ecuadorian indigenous women and organizations for information about their sexual and reproductive rights, as guaranteed by the 2008 Constitution and other laws. It focuses on the indigenous perspective of “Good living” (Buen vivir), a physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual wellness, an integrated wholeness that is not limited to the absence of sickness.

Esta publicación pretende dar respuesta a la demanda informativa expresada por las mujeres indígenas de Ecuador y sus organizaciones, acerca de sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos, que están vigentes y garantizados por la Constitución de 2008 y a otras leyes que, además, se estructuran tomando en cuenta la perspectiva indígena sobre lo que es el “Buen Vivir” como conjunto de una salud física, mental, social , emocional y espiritual; un todo integrado que no se limite a la ausencia de enfermedad.

"Opportunities and Challenges for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean" is a call for decision makers in international organisms, governments, and civil society organizations to unite and coordinate efforts to reduce maternal mortality in the region, and constitutes an invitation to join the efforts of the Regional Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction (GTR).

El presente documento tiene el propósito de llamar la atención a tomadores de decisiones en organismos internacionales, gobiernos y organizaciones civiles para unir y coordinar esfuerzos, y constituye una invitación a sumarse al Grupo de Trabajo Regional para la Reducción de la Mortalidad Materna (GTR).

Newsletters, programming resources, project descriptions, and other documents sharing the progress of the Skilled Care Initiative. Available in English, French, and Spanish.

A set of six 10-15 minute video modules for adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa covering human reproduction, pregnancy prevention, STIs including HIV/AIDS, unwanted sex, and unsafe abortion.

Skilled maternity care throughout pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period is recognized as a critical key to reducing maternal mortality. Today in many developing countries, however, more than half of women go through childbirth without such care and these women suffer disproportionately from pregnancy and childbirth complications that, far too often, lead to death or serious disability. In 2000, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCI launched the five-year Skilled Care Initiative, which improved pregnancy and childbirth care in more than 100 health facilities in four poor rural districts of Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Tanzania.

This collection of articles in Spanish, originally published in English in the reputed scientific magazine “The Lancet”, addresses the most pressing issues related to maternal survival and sexual and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean.

La presente colección de artículos, originalmente publicados en inglés en la reconocida revista científica "The Lancet", representa una selección de los temas y los enfoques de supervivencia materna y salud sexual y reproductiva más relevantes para América Latina y el Caribe.

Helps young people make informed decisions about their sexual lives by providing comprehensive information for adolescents on changes during puberty, sexuality and sexual health, pregnancy and contraception, STIs including HIV/ AIDS, sexual coercion and violence, substance abuse, building healthy relationships, communicating with parents, and planning for the future. The manual has been developed in fivelanguages and six different versions reflecting the regional contexts and the unique challenges facing adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.