Training of Roma Health Mediators in Reproductive Health

SUMMARY
At the end of this session, emphasize that:
• All contraceptive methods presented are available to any person in Romania, no
matter his/her status in relation with the House of Health Insurance. Access to
Family Planning is a basic right for all human beings.
• Family Doctors and specialists working in Family Planning clinics are trained and
authorized to provide these methods to the population.
• Mediators have only the role to inform people about the existing methods, to
emphasize the advantages of practicing family planning and to support the
population in their communities to visit health providers who can offer
contraception to their clients.
All mediators will receive a list of trained Family Planning providers in their districts.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice the provision of information about
family planning methods in the last day of the workshop, when they will have to prepare
and demonstrate in front of the group a group education session.
The next session will cover another method, Standard Days Method, which they can
discuss with people in their community; and they can provide a tool (Cycle Beads) to
help people to understand and practice this method.
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RFHI/JSI Romania Training of RHMs in Reproductive Health Session 4: FP Methods