Overview
In Guinea, the Population Council has assisted organizations that encourage the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting and conducted situation analysis of service-delivery points that offer family planning and maternal and child health services.
Currently Guinea is one of 11 countries participating in the African Forum on Emergency Contraception, or ECafrique, a network that seeks to increase the availability of high-quality emergency contraception (EC) services in Africa.
Highlights of past and present work
- Supports research, advocacy, and service-delivery interventions at the country level as a member of ECafrique, a bilingual, international network of health care and business professionals from more than 200 institutions that seeks to increase the availability of high-quality emergency contraception (EC) services in Africa.
- Conducted a situation analysis of service-delivery points offering family planning services as well as clinics providing maternal and child health services. Study results were used to develop national health programs such as Programme National de Développement Sanitaire.
- Provided technical assistance to organizations seeking to improve strategies to encourage abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting.
Banner photo: © Nancy Palus/IRIN
Projects
ECafrique (more)
The African Forum on Emergency Contraception, or ECafrique, is a bilingual, international network of health care and business professionals that seeks to increase the availability of high-quality emergency contraception (EC) services in Africa.
(1/2002 - ongoing)
Access to contraceptive methods
Resources
The adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people--Guinea 2005 (PDF) (HTML)Publication date: 2009
Exercice de couverture sur les activités des pairs éducateurs en Guinée Bissau: Rapport final
Lardoux,Solene; Cardoso,P.; Lopes,C.
Publication date: 2006
Technical assistance to organizations in Guinea seeking to reduce female genital cutting (PDF)
Diop,Nafissatou J.
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
Selected DHS data on 10-14-year-olds: Guinea (PDF)
annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical tables for program planning"
Publication date: 2003
Guinea Fast Facts
| Population (millions) | 10.1 |
|---|---|
| Total fertility rate | 5.7 |
| Infant deaths per 1,000 live births | 104 |
| Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births | 910 |
| Girls aged 20-24 married by age 18 (%) | 63 |
| HIV/AIDS prevalence (%) | 1.6 |
| Living below US $2 per day (%) | 87 |
What's New
- The Interagency Gender Working Group has published a new synthesis of evidence of the effect of equitable gender initiatives on reproductive health outcomes. All three of the Population Council’s research programs are featured in this volume entitled Gender Perspectives Improve Reproductive Health Outcomes: New Evidence. "We are proud of the Council's contribution to this and other evidence bases linked to improved reproductive health results," says John Townsend, director of the Council's Reproductive Health program. (offsite link)
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