Project title:
Enhancing access to high quality Safe Abortion services in Tajikistan.
Project summary:
The goal of this 2-year project is to contribute to the implementation of Tajikistan’s new Safe Abortion and Post Abortion Care Standard, increasing access to quality SRHR services including safe abortion and post-abortion care. It will create a clinic that will make quality care available to beneficiaries (rural and urban youth, sex-workers, migrant women, PLHIV, street involved youth) free of charge. Outreach and cooperation with local communities will contribute to accessibility. The clinic will serve as a training centre which will be used by the Ministry of Health (MoH), WHO, UNFPA and TFPA to train the country’s obstetrician-gynaecologists in accordance with the new national standards and systematically gather and interpret feedback to further improve implementation of the new standard. Increased access to high quality abortion will decrease the level of morbidity and mortality of target rural population from unsafe abortion.
Project expected start and end dates (day/month/year):
Start: 01 April 2014
End: 31 March 2016
Overall goal of the project:
To contribute to further implementation of National Standards on safe abortion and post abortion care developed by TFPA in 2012 by ensuring that all women in Tajikistan, including the most vulnerable, have access to Comprehensive Abortion Care including post-abortion family planning services.
The project will reach the most vulnerable groups: Youth (rural and urban), sex-workers, wives of Tajik migrants who stay at home when their husbands are abroad, PLHIV, street involved youth. Tajikistan has 8 million people, with more than 2 million men living abroad in labour migration. Assessment of abortion structures show that 41% of abortion had by wives of these labour migrants. Service providers (OBGYNs) will also benefit by training to increase knowledge and skills of the providers.
