Did you know that more than one million lives could be saved annually if insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) were routinely used by the populations at greatest risk of malaria? For a short overview of how ITNs are being used to prevent malaria, read the latest Global Health Technical Brief - Bednets Reduce Malaria at http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/tb17bednets.shtml

Global Health Technical Briefs summarize the most important information on a timely health topic (usually related to reproductive health) in two pages, and pinpoint the implications for public health programs. Each brief includes background and a definition of the topic, important recent findings or lessons learned in program application, implications for programs, and where to get more information (web site address and/or contact name/e-mail address).

17 Global Health Technical Briefs have been published in English since 2004. They cover a range of topics including:

- family planning for postpartum women 
- birth spacing 
- using private providers for family planning services
- preventing postpartum hemorrhage
- focused antenatal care
- integration of family planning and HIV/AIDS services
- the importance of client provider interaction
- youth and contraception
- abstinence and delayed sexual initiation for youth
- vasectomy and female sterilization
- contraception for women on ARVs
- organizing work better
- the standard days method of natural family planning (also in French, Spanish)
- contraceptive security
- IUDs (also in French)

If you don't see a topic that interest you, contact Caitlin Livingston, USAID, at [log in to unmask] and suggest it.

Global Health Technical Briefs are published by The INFO Project for USAID and are made available online in both HTML and PDF format on the MAQ - Maximizing Access and Quality - website at http://www.maqweb.org/techbriefs/. 



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