Communication campaign, providing reproductive health care services

16:40, April 25, 2024

BHG – On the morning of April 25, Ha Giang City Medical Center coordinated with Phuong Do Commune People’s Committee to organize a launching ceremony for a communication campaign, advocating for the integration of reproductive health care and family planning services (family planning). ) to ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the three communes of Phuong Do, Phuong Thien, and Ngoc Duong.

With the efforts of Party committees and authorities at all levels and the active coordination of mass organizations, population work and family planning in Ha Giang city have recently achieved important results. . The natural population growth rate has been maintained stable for many years. The rate of couples using modern contraceptive methods is maintained at 60% – 70%. People’s awareness of reproductive health care and family planning is increasingly changing positively; The family model of having 1 or 2 children has become the norm in social life; Population quality is improved. Good implementation of population and family planning policies has had a positive impact on the local poverty reduction and socio-economic development program.

Although much progress has been achieved, population and family planning work in Ha Giang city still has many difficulties and challenges such as: The population level is not uniform; Outdated practices still exist in some places; The aging population structure, underemployment, gender imbalance at birth and the rate of having a third child or more are on the rise; Issues of reproductive health, child marriage, and teenage childbirth are being raised and need to be resolved soon.

The campaign launching ceremony is a practical and meaningful program to further strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees and grassroots authorities at all levels in the fields of population and family planning. At the same time, promote communication and advocacy to change people’s awareness in implementing population policy with rich and lively forms and content, suitable for each different target group. . Thereby, creating conditions for people in disadvantaged areas to access and use reproductive health care and family planning services in a convenient and effective way.

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