Two years have passed since many of you gathered in Harare, Zimbabwe, for
the East and Southern Africa (ESA) workshop to launch the Maximizing Access and Quality
(MAQ) initiative. Among the most notable achievements reported in 1995 are more than 30
changes in policies, practices and strategies in four ESA countries (Botswana, Kenya,
Uganda and Zimbabwe). By January 1995, when the first issue of the MAQ Bulletin for East
and Southern Africa was published, much progress had already been made toward achieving
the MAQ action plan objectives you documented at the February 1994 workshop. Owing to a
variety of innovative followup activities designed and conducted by leaders like
yourselves, significant changes in reproductive health policies, guidelines and protocols
have been made. Building on the favorable policy environment for reproductive health, you
have turned the written document into action by training and delivering services according
to new national standards. JHPIEGO, with support from HHRAA/SARA, continues to follow your
progress with great interest. This bulletin is intended to serve as a record of your many
successes, to provide workshop followup and evaluation information, and to disseminate new
information in the field of reproductive health.
Sandra de Castro Buffington, Chair
JHPIEGO Maximizing Access and Quality Task Force
Uganda
Nurse Trainers Learn New FP Curriculum Skills: Uganda nurse trainers prepare to train
service providers in new inservice FP curriculum skills. Pictured is Perpetua Otim, Family
Planning Association of Uganda, working with Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council
trainer “Busi” Moyo and Morehouse School of Medicine consultant Linda Windham,
in Lweza, Uganda, September 1995.
East and
Southern Africa