Community Health Aides (CHAs) in St. Ann and St. Mary have completed training in contraceptive methods to improve their knowledge of, and ability to impart information on, each method. Trainers from the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) guided the on-the-ground health care workers to identify their pivotal role in family planning and contraceptive promotion for[...]

Findings of the National Family Planning Board’s (NFPB) Reproductive Health Survey 2021 will be disseminated on February 9, 2024 in an event planned for a Kingston-based hotel. The event will highlight several issues concerning the status of sexual and reproductive health among persons of reproductive age.   National in scope, the research data is integral to[...]

Yute Expression’s Yute Chatz, a Chatbot launched by the National Family Planning Board’s and collaborators UNICEF and U-Report Jamaica has been operational for the past two months. It is on the UNICEF platform and powered by UNICEF and UNAIDS. The chatbot is yet another technological innovation that puts sexual and reproductive health responses in the[...]

Residents of St. Thomas and its environs have been benefiting from training received in long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) by community health aides, public health nurses and midwives. The Training Officer at the National Family Planning Board (NFPB) reported that the entity hosted the workshops in response to a need to improve sexual reproductive health service[...]

The statement reads “Are you PrEPared?” and is scribbled across one of several bright and bold billboards that have appeared islandwide in recent days promoting PrEP, the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. While many people look on quizzically the question resonates with workers in several agencies with an interest in HIV Prevention and Treatment.  They have a vested[...]