Projects » Health Policy
Venture Strategies works actively with governments, agencies, and women's groups to enable women to have control over whether and when to have a child, by reducing barriers to access to fertility regulation methods and the needed correct information. In our view, poor women should not be exposed to the dangers and exploitation of unsafe abortion. We also value participation of the private sector at the community level for improving health care.
In our program on demedicalizing health services, with the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, we are assembling the evidence of the safety of, and the need for, delegation of many life-saving medical tasks to the poor in settings where clinics are inaccessible.
In collaboration with the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, we aim to build the evidence base needed to inform policy decisions on appropriate levels of access to depo medroxy progesterone acetate (DMPA) for distribution. In Ethiopia, where the unmet need for family planning is staggeringly high, DMPA is the preferred method. Together with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health we have initiated operations research to determine if community-based distribution and administration of DMPA is a safe and feasible way to better meet the family planning needs of that country’s women.
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