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UNFPA, guided by its mandate on Reproductive Health (RH), which covers the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality, and combating Gender Based Violence, and UNICEF by its mandate covering child survival, development and participation, made a decision to develop a joint and innovative initiative that would put into action the Inter-agency Statement on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation.

Expanding Family Planning Method-Mix to include new contraceptive methods is considered one of the pivotal strategies to confront the challenges to the FP program in Egypt. The new added contraceptive methods: monthly injection, local suppositories and emergency contraceptive could find eligible women who are included as discontinuers, with unmet needs as well as first time users who have specific medical and social circumstances. 

The Health Sector Reform Program (HSRP) is promoting the Family Health Model (FHM) as the new system of family-based Primary Health Care (PHC).

The current study is designed in order to document and explain the impact of the FHM on RH-services and to suggest interventions to promote the role of FHM in increasing the utilization of RH-services. The findings of this study are essential to support the MOHP and UNFPA in their efforts to strengthen the RH impact of the FHM. Those efforts are directed towards creating a number of model districts where quality integrated RH-services are not only available and accessible, but also have the support from the local communities who are familiar with the key concepts of RH and the available RH- services.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is one of the most serious health and development challenges facing the world today. Over time, infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) weakens the immune system to the point that it has difficulty in fighting off certain infections. AIDS is considered to be the most advanced stages of HIV infection, when people have difficulty in fighting off even minor infections.