Partnership for effective reproductive health services

Abstract

lt was only until recently that Zambia Health institutions started providing inter grated Reproductive Services. Until 1995 reproductive health in Zambia meant the provision of Family Planning Services, Antenatal, Maternity and Gynaecology services separately in separate clinics and on separate days. A national sensitisation workshop in 1996 agreed that Reproductive Hearth services for Zambia `would consist of the following main_ areas; Sole Motherhood, Family Planning, Adolescent Sexual Heath, STD, HIV/AIDS and Abortion. Recently Cancer of the Cervix has been added to the list of priority areas'. These areas are three identified identify as having more Of an impact on maternal Health and thus requiring emphasis.