According to the national medical education curriculum, the theoretical studies should cover CAC, as well as contraceptive methods and counselling.
Thus, in addition to midwifery and referral services, there is also a need to provide client-centred family planning services with safe and effective contraceptive methods and counselling.
As Patel recommends, "… all HIV-positive women should be offered all currently available contraceptive methods, and counseled about failure rates when used with efavirenz-based ART".
High unmet need for family planning in Nepal, especially in high risk groups, indicates the need for more equitable and higher quality postpartum family planning services, including availability of range of methods and counselling which will help to further reduce maternal, perinatal, and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Nepal.
The CHOICE program offered a wide variety of methods and actively counseled clients about methods using the gradient of WHO's "tiered" contraceptive effectiveness chart.
The hypothesis of this study was that among women using modern contraceptive methods, counselling and being counselled by a physician were significantly associated with correct knowledge about contraceptive mode of action.
13 Providers need adequate knowledge of contraceptive methods and training in counselling skills in order to provide reliable information to women.
The two-week classroom component of the training includes instruction as well as role-plays and case studies to ensure that trainees understand the concepts and methods of HIV counselling and testing.
However, providers understood the importance of counselling, and improvements in the means for counselling (training, methods and privacy) were requested.
To explore physicians' and midwives' perceptions of post-abortion care, with regard to professional competences, methods, contraceptive counselling and task shifting/sharing in PAC.
