“Before, we heard that they treated young people poorly. But now the nurses have all been nice to us. They even go visit the teen club members who have just had their babies.”

In El Salvador the vulnerability of adolescents’ sexual health is illuminated by two statistics. For...

“We thought we were performing very well, but actually we were making mistakes. Supervision brought out our weaknesses and enabled us to improve.”

In the Louga region of northwestern Senegal, the PRIME II Project has helped to strengthen the supervisory skills of head nurses...

“Supportive supervision helped me gain the confidence to perform up to standards.”

Rajabeti, an Auxiliary Nurse-Midwife in the Firozabad district of Uttar Pradesh, India, was nervous and couldn’t pass her first follow-up examination after IUD insertion training as part of the...

“I feel the difference, before and after. Now the providers explain everything. They talk to me more and I go home in peace.”

Thanks to feedback mechanisms implemented by the PRIME II Project, primary providers are improving services at 16 Paraguayan health facilities by...

“Now I have the self-respect to just say ‘no’ to boys, and I know I can use condoms if I want to have sex.”

Sarah—a teenager in Uganda’s Jinja District—watched three of her friends drop out of school in 1998 when they became pregnant. As a “disco kid” she was at risk of...

“When clients inquired about various family planning methods in the past, we were usually unable to give them relevant information since we were more focused on HIV/AIDS prevention. Now, we can easily explain and promote dual protection.”

With assistance from the PRIME II...

“There are 40- to 45-year-old women who don’t know anything about contraception and they have children who are adolescents already. What will they tell them? One woman asked me during counseling: ’Where have you been with your family planning methods when I was having my previous six...

“Active Management is very enjoyable and even rather pretty to observe. Before, the mothers made a lot of noise because it was painful to have the contractions and have us push on their stomach. Now we don’t have to push and it’s even hard to tell there was a delivery, everything is so...

“I can say that I saved a life. I treated a woman who was bleeding profusely. She was worried and her parents were worried. Performing MVA and rapidly stabilizing her with an IV gave confidence to the woman, and she thanked me a lot for having saved her life.”

Through...

“If it is a birth I cannot attend alone, I look for help. When there is no emergency vehicle, I find the person on call to help me take the patient.”

Felipa Arteta, a traditional birth attendant in rural Nicaragua, has learned how to assess whether she can assist with a...