AID grant to the Salvadoran Demographic Association to provide support for a program of expanding the delivery of family planning services and commodities in El Salvador

SDA will provide contraceptive marketing and community-based distribution, a mass media campaign, training of medical and other personnel, and voluntary sterilization and other medical/clinical FP services. The SDA program, which targets some 77,000 contraceptive users, will specifically include: (1) establishment of 250 new community-based contraceptive distribution posts per year, concentrated in rural areas unserved by commercial outlets; (2) community-based FP services for displaced families at the Santa Tecla camp; (3) commercial retail sales of condoms, orals, and vaginal tablets, revenue from which will support other OPG activities; (4) a mass media campaign to reach 100% of the fertile-age population through radio and TV, pamphlets, publications, etc. - the campaign will emphasize health as the central theme for making FP decisions; (5) training (in-country courses, seminars, and workshops for medical and paramedical staff, volunteers, and personnel from pharmacies and stores, etc; study tours; and external training of about 100 persons per year); (6) medical/clinical services, to include voluntary sterilization and the provision of orals, IUD"s, etc.); and (7) research and evaluation and other activities to strengthen SDA management. While A.I.D. will provide both TA and contraceptive commodities in support of the above activities, neither will be financed under this OPG. Amendment (9/86) increases funding, extends PACD to 12/89, and specifies higher project targets. The community-based distribution program has been closed, and the commercial retail sales programs expanded to rural areas. Training will focus on strengthening SDA administrative and technical capabilities, and steps will be taken to increase SDA"s self-sufficiency by improving its management and developing income-generating activities; ultimately less than 50% of SDA"s income will come from A.I.D. (PD-KAH-236) Amendment (5/89) extends PACD to 6/90 and funds a study by Centro de Apoyo a la Lactancia Materna (CALMA), a local PVO, of the feasibility of introducing interventions to reduce Vitamin A deficiencies among children below age 5. (PD-AAZ-308)