Minsk Womens Wellness Center

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Minsk Womens Wellness Center

• Goal womens and adolescents
• reproductive health improvement
• Victoria Lozuyk
• Director
• Established1998
  Republic of Belarus

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Our partners Magee Womens Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Our partners Womens Health Center Mozyr,
Gomel region
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Our partners- NGO Woman and Family

• NGO Woman and Family
• Is created to improve the life quality and
  health of woman and her family by increasing the
  level of social and cultural life.

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Why did we come to that?

• The neeed to expand accessible and comprehensive
  reproductive health care services for women.
• The necessity to increase the population IEC
  level
• on reproductive rights and duties.
• The necessity to create the responsible
  reproductive behavior among adults and teens
• The necessity to increase the womens
  self-consciousness, and participation in the life
  of society
• The necessity to eradicate all forms of violence
  against women
• The necessity to create responsible parenthood
  and the strengthen the family institute

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The stages of the development

• 1996-1998 - preparation for setting up the
  center
• May 1998- opening of the WWC in Minsk
• May 1999- evaluation of the results and
  preparation for the opening of Mozyr WWC
• Community involvement in health care programs
• Creating common vision and team-building
• April 2000 - the opening of the Mozyr WWC
• January 2000- registration of NGO Woman and
  Family
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Why Mozyr?

• Gomel region- post-Chernobyl area
• The insufficient IEC level in the community
• The highest level of pregnancy terminations in
  the RB
• The highest level of teen abortions in the RB
• High level of the oncological morbidity of the
  reproductive organs
• The necessity to improve the primary health care
  in regions
• Space available in the outpatient clinic
• Support of the local professional society
• Support of the local authorities

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Why NGO?

• Regions involvement
• Mobilization of local resources
• The need to integrate the efforts of
  professionals and community members
• Flexibility and independence in the design out
  and implementation of the programs
• Involvement of additional funds

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Today we are

• Medical services
• Educational programs
• Fee-for-service
• Methodological work
• Team with common vision

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Working principles

• Emphasis on prevention
• Quality
• Accessibility
• Self-financing
• Continuity
• Flexibility
• Initiative

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Demographic data
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Reproductive health data
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Strategy of the long-term sustainability

• The future continuation of partnership programs
• The collaboration with local authorities and
  Ministry of Health of the RB
• Community involvement in health care programs
• The expansion of accesible primary health care
  services
• The development of preventive programs
• The transition to self - financing

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The tactic

• Combining the efforts of the Minsk and Mozyr WWCs
  
• Development of the business-plan.
• The expansion of services for fee in the existing
  centers
• The expansion of educational program for the
  community.
• Mass-media coverage
• Cooperation with the NGO Woman and Family
• Development and implementation of the breast
  cancer screening program
• The creation of reproductive health database in
  the RB
• Continuing the cooperation with international NGOs

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The expected result

• Improvement of reproductive health
• Expansion of partnership ideas in other regions
  of the RB
• Increase of the family planning services
  accessibility
• Improvement of medical care quality
• Mobilization of additional financial sources
• Increase of the IEC level among health
  professionals and community members on the
  reproductive health issues
• Active participation of women in community life,
  increase of womens self-consciousness, the
  development of womens leadership skills
• Strengthening of the family institute and the
  development of the responsible parenthood attitude

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Perspectives

• Joint activity of the NGO and government
  institutions in the implementation of
  reproductive health projects in the RB
• Expansion of regional activities with NGO Woman
  and Family
• Financial independence
• Establishment reproductive health center for
  adolescents
• Implementation of the breast cancer screening
  program
• Creation of a reproductive health foundation