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The COMPRI-A project focuses on improving the capacity of the private-sector to provide quality health products and services throughout Afghanistan and promotes healthy behaviors for individuals, families, and communities. The project targets private-sector providers, such as pharmacies and private doctors, with the aim of reaching people who do not use or have access to public services. Additionally, the project supports mass media campaigns through local television, radio stations, mobile cinemas, and live theater performances, and works with community leaders to reinforce knowledge and behaviors about child survival, birth spacing, and water treatment solutions that reduce diarrheal diseases. Health products, such as contraceptives, oral rehydration salts, and water purification tablets are distributed through more than 5,300 retail outlets. USAID has been instrumental in creating and developing the Afghanistan Social Marketing Organization to assume responsibility for social-marketing activities.
In addition to supporting social marketing, USAID provides technical assistance to private-sector health associations such as the Afghan Private Hospital Association and the Afghan Medical Services Union. To support long-term financing of the health sector, USAID works closely with the Ministry of Public Health to explore public-private partnerships in the hospital sector.
USAID’s HIV/AIDS activities are also supported through this project. USAID supports the secretariat functions and activities of the HIV/AIDS Coordinating Committee of Afghanistan (HACCA), including workshops for line Ministries, a newsletter, and website. Led by the National AIDS Control Program, HACCA is an inter-ministerial committee comprised of key line ministries and non-governmental organizations working on HIV/AIDS.
In addition, USAID provides support to the Youth Health and Development Organization, a local Afghan non-governmental organization, to operate men’s health clinics in Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif. The Kabul Men’s Health Clinic opened in January 2010, and the Mazar-e-Sharif clinic opened in July 2010. The clinics provide outreach and basic medical services exclusively for men, including HIV/AIDS counseling and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and provide drop-in services for men-who-have sex-with-men populations in these two cities. Starting in December 2011, the Global Fund will provide financial support for these two clinics.
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COMPRI-A Fact Sheet FINAL June 2011
3 December 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan
While HIV prevalence in Afghanistan is currently low with 1,250 reported cases to date, the country is at high USAID/COMPRI-A Religious...
18 October 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health is taking steps to promote public-private partnerships in the hospital sector to provide greater access and quality of care for the Afghan people.
22 June 2011
USAID/COMPRI-A Contraceptives are readily available in drugstores throughout Afghanistan. Thirty years of war and civil strife has had a crippling effect on...
10 December 2009 | Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s infant, child, and maternal mortality rates are among the world’s highest. Cultural taboos surrounding family planning, as well as a lack of education about...
31 October 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan
On October 17, U.S. and Afghan government representatives and members of the international community gathered in Kabul for the official launch of the Afghan Social...
31 July 2010 | Nimroz Province, Afghanistan
USAID is working with local non-government organizations to implement Jalasa Sehi Jamea (JSJ), or community health meetings, as an effective way to spread...
31 July 2009 | Kabul, Afghanistan
As more quality health products are made available to the Afghan population, maternal and childhood mortality rates continue to decrease. The United States Government supports...
15 December 2008 | Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest rates of infant and maternal mortality. Despite cultural taboos surrounding family planning, USAID helped boost awareness this year...
2 February 2008 | Kabul, Afghanistan
In early January, the project signed a national distribution agreement for pharmaceutical and contraceptive products with Afghanpharma Distribution Group, who has agreed to promote a...
The USAID-funded social marketing project recently received quality control equipment to ensure reliable production of safe water solutions at Khalid Irshad Pharmaceuticals. This sophisticated quality...
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