AFGHANISTAN/UNITED STATES: Advocate To Speak About Women’s Health Issues In Afghanistan
Whittier Daily News (United States) reported on 1 November on the experience of Taraneh Salke, founder and executive director of Family Health Alliance, on women's reproductive health and development in resource-poor environments such as Afghanistan. In 2007 and 2008, Ms. Salke and her team of professionals trained about 150 male health care providers on family planning issues, like birth spacing, as well as in sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and domestic violence, she said. These men then went back to their villages and cities, where they educated more than 15,400 of their male patients. With the support of the UNFPA, Ms. Salke's team started to turn over the successful programme to the Afghan Ministry of Public Health and has trained 14 health care providers as master trainers to continue training others, she added. Read: Whittier Daily News