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USAID Launches Birth Spacing Program in NWFP
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Peshawar, May 16, 2008 -- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its NWFP component of the nationwide program on child spacing called Family Advancement for Life and Health (FALAH) in NWFP.
USAID Launches Birth Spacing Program in NWFP
05/16/2008
Peshawar -- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched here today the North-West Frontier Province component of its five-year, $60 million nationwide program on child spacing, called ‘Family Advancement for Life and Health' (FALAH).
"The 2007 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey preliminary report indicates that almost 50 percent of families who have one child want to wait for two or more years before having the next child," said Mary E. Skarie, Health Office Chief, USAID/Pakistan. "FALAH will help them with child spacing."
Implemented by a consortium of organizations led by the U.S.-based Population Council, FALAH focuses on bringing about a major shift in the programmatic approach to family planning - moving from child limiting to child spacing. Incorporation of child spacing into health programs will help reduce the high levels of maternal and infant illness and deaths that continue to plague Pakistan. Operating in 20 districts nationwide, the NWFP component of FALAH includes six districts: Swabi, Charsadda, Buner, Upper Dir, Lakki Marwat, and Batagram.
Since 2002, the U.S. Government has provided more than $2 billion to Pakistan to improve economic growth, education, health, governance and to assist with earthquake reconstruction.
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