RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD PROGRAM FOR HIGH AND MEDIUM RISK MOTHERS

PROJECT COMPONENTS INCLUDE TRAINING LOCAL PERSONNEL: 150 NURSES FROM MIN OF HLTH (MOH) MEDICALCENTERS; 250 MIDWIVES IN PRE, PERI AND POST NATAL CARE; 500 NURSES AIDES; 600 PRACTICAL NURSES WORKING WITH WOMEN IN POORER URBAN AND RURAL AREAS; 120 DOCTORS IN LIMA AND OUTLYING REGIONS INCLUDING THOSE SERVING SUGAR COOPERATIVES" PRIVATE HOSPITALS. TRAINING ABROAD: 2 MOH ADMINISTATORS TO COUNTRIES WHERE THERE ARE ADVANCED PROGRAMS RELATING TO RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD; 2 DOCTORS AND 6 NURSES FORM THE PROVINCES; 10 DIS FROM TOP LEVEL MATERNAL/INFANT CARE INSTITUTION (INSTITUTODE NEONATOLOGIA Y PROTECCION MATERNO INFANTIL-INPROMI) PERSONNEL TO LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES (MEXICO, COSTA RICA, COLOMBIA AND CHILE, PUERTO RICO) WHICH HAVE ADVANCED RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD PROGRAMS. RESEARCHING AND ANALYZING THE FACTORS RELATED TO HIGH AND MEDIUM RISK PREGNANCIES. ISSUING REPORTS AND ARTICLES ON RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PREGNANCIES AS ABASIS FOR THE PROCEDURES IN THE RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD PROGRAM. STUDYING MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY RELATED TO INDUCED ABORTION. BENEFICIARIES WILL BE PERUVIAN MOTHERS AND FAMILIES. OTHER DONORS INCLUDE ASOCIACION PERUANA DE PROTECCIAN FAMILIAR, A PRIVATE INSTITUTION, BEGUN IN 1960 WHICH BY 1970 HAD ESTABLISHED 11 CLINICS.