Family Planning
In order to help address the high levels of maternal mortality and morbidity in the countries where we work, all our projects provide free family planning commodities and confidential counselling. This service is offered to fistula patients at the Freedom From Fistula clinics, as well as maternity patients at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Sierra Leone when they return for their 6-week post-delivery check-up and parents bringing their children to the Outpatient Children’s Clinic (OPC).
There are group sessions for family planning, as well as individual counselling, explaining family planning in the context of safe sex and birth control and in 2023 we provided individual counselling for family planning to 2942 women (2482 at our Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Sierra Leone, 189 at our Fistula Care Centre in Malawi and 271 at our Fistula Care Centre in Madagascar)
AWC also has a dedicated HIV Nurse, Juliette, who tests and counsels patients, referring them to the local government hospital for antiretroviral treatment, ensures they receive support, follow-up care and information on the importance of taking their medication and the steps they can take to keep themselves healthy.
