1 MindanaoHealth Project Program Year 6 – Quarter 3 Accomplishment Report (April 2018-June 2018) Vol. 01: Quarterly Progress Report Submitted: August 3, 2018 Submitted by: Dolores C. Castillo, MD, MPH, CESO III Chief of Party MindanaoHealth Project E-mail:
[email protected] Mobile phone: 09177954307 2 On the cover: Top left: Another pregnant woman who went to the Saguiran Rural Health Unit and completed her fourth antenatal care check-up receives her dignity package and maternity kit/bag from USAID, handed over by Department of Health-ARMM’s Universal Health Care Doctor-on-Duty Dr. Baima Macadato (2nd from left). (NJulkarnain/Jhpiego) Bottom left: USAID-trained Family Planning Nurse Ruby Navales (left) talks about Family Planning to postpartum mothers. (Jhpiego) Top right: USAID-trained Family Health Associate Ailleene Jhoy Verbo uses the material/toolkit that the MindanaoHealth Project provided to FHAs to aid them in delivering correct messages and in answering questions on Family Planning from her listeners. (Photo by: Jerald Jay De Leon, Siay Rural Health Unit, Zamboanga Sibugay) Bottom right: A teen mother and now advocate of the adolescent and youth reproductive health, Shanille Blase (extreme right) expresses her gratitude to USAID Mission Director to the Philippines Lawrence Hardy II (extreme left) for USAID’s support to the Brokenshire Hospital’s Program for Teens, which provided her free antenatal, birthing and postpartum care. Also in photo: Dr. Dolores C. Castillo (second from left), MindanaoHealth Project Chief of Party. (Photos: MCossid/Jhpiego) This report was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement AID-492-A-13-00005.