[04/July/2009]

HAJJAH, July 04 (Saba) - A workshop on the coordination of awareness campaign of reproductive health issues launched on Saturday and implemented by the Public Health and Population Office in Hajjah province.

The two-day workshop, which is financed by Yemeni-German Reproductive Health Program, targets 20 participants of the public opinion leaders.

It aims to get the participants acquainted with the importance of reproductive health as well as raise community awareness on it and establish the appropriate mechanism to spread reproductive health concepts via the different mass media.

The workshop dealt with the significance of raising the knowledge of family planning methods and its positive impacts on the family from the economic, health and social aspects.

Director of Public Health and Population Office Adel al-Mu'ayad made clear that mortality indicators resulting from closely-spaced births reached 365 cases death out of 100,000 births all over the country as well as the fertility rate reached 7.6 percent and growth rates 5.3 percent in the province.

FJ/AM

Saba