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INFO Project Report 2008New!
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP), has been a key partner with USAID in improving reproductive health worldwide, first through its Population Information Program (PIP) and since 2002 through its Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project. PIP and INFO have helped reproductive health professionals around the world by sharing essential information and knowledge.

Gender GuideNew!
A Gender Guide to Reproductive Health Publications: Producing Gender-Sensitive Publications for Health Professionals is designed for the editors, writers, designers, and distribution specialists who help develop and disseminate reproductive health publications for professional audiences.

M&E GuideNew!
Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services provides publishers, knowledge managers, program managers, M&E specialists, and health information communicators with a standardized way to evaluate whether their print or electronic products and services meet the requirements needed to make them effective, used, and adapted by health care practitioners and policymakers in the field.

Family Planning Wall Chart
"Do You Know Your Family planning Choices? Your family planning provider can help. Please ask!" replaces the old wall chart by the same name and will continue to serve as a tool to comply with a requirement of the Tiarht Amendment. Available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Global Handbook
Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers replaces the Essentials of Contraceptive Technology. The new book covers more methods and more related topics, strengthening the evidence base for its guidance, and substantially increasing the content developed through organized consensus-development processes. The Family Planning Wall Chart (see above) accompanies the book.

Population Reports®
Population Reports is the world's most widely distributed journal on family planning and related health topics. It is designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of important developments in family planning and related health areas. Also available in French and Spanish, with selected issues in Portuguese. Also visit Population Reports Materials for Teaching and Training.

INFO Reports
INFO Reports are periodic reports that feature brief looks at special topics, newsworthy events, and important new research and program developments in family planning and related reproductive health. INFO Reports appear occasionally, as important topics arise.

Global Health Technical Briefs
Global Health Technical Briefs summarize the most important information on a timely reproductive health topic in two pages, and pinpoint the implications for public health programs. Global Health Technical Briefs are posted online regularly. These briefs are published by the INFO Project for USAID's Office of Population in association with the Maximizing Access and Quality Initiative.

The Pop Reporter®
The Pop Reporter is a weekly, customizable e-zine that provides summaries of and links to research and news reports from around the world on reproductive health and related topics. Guest Commentaries provide unique insight into current research, news, and project results. Also visit The Pop Reporter Archives for links to past issues.

A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices
A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices,
developed by the INFO Project and prepared by Adrienne Kols and Margaret D'Adamo, includes a step-by-step process, tips, case studies, and links to additional resources that explain how an organization can more effectively share its own best practices internally. (http://www.infoforhealth.org/Sharing_Local_BPs.pdf)

Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers 
The Decision-Making Tool for Family Planning Clients and Providers promotes high-quality family planning counselling. The Tool supports client and provider through deciding on a contraceptive method and learning to use it. The Tool is one cornerstone in the World Health Organization’s series, Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance. Available in English, French, and Spanish.

WHO Counseling Tool: Reproductive Choices and Family Planning for People Living with HIV
The Reproductive choices and family planning for people living with HIV - Counselling tool is designed to help health workers counsel people living with HIV on sexual and reproductive choices and family planning. It also is meant to help people living with HIV make and carry out informed, healthy, and appropriate decisions about their sexual and reproductive lives.

International Family Planning Perspectives
International Family Planning Perspectives, published by The Alan Guttmacher Institute, provides the latest peer-reviewed research on reproductive health in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. This quarterly journal emphasizes contraception, fertility, adolescent pregnancy, family planning policies and programs, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS, and maternal and child health. Staff-written summaries help you keep up with new developments in the field, while special reports and viewpoint pieces suggest new approaches to common problems. All articles include summaries in Spanish and French.

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