AFRO-NETS> New Online CIRE System Offers Latest Findings Related to Family Planning Guidance

["Peggy D'Adamo" <mdadamo@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>]

New Online CIRE System Offers Latest Findings Related to Family Planning Guidance
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A new online service offers access to new research findings poten-
tially relevant to the World Health Organization's (WHO) interna-
tional family planning guidance. Family planning professionals and 
consumers will be able to learn of findings as they are collected 
from the world's scientific literature as part of a continuous effort 
to assure that WHO guidance stays up-to-date and remains based on 
good scientific evidence.

The service (known as CIRE, for Continuous Identification of Research 
Evidence) notifies professionals and the public about new findings in 
three ways: 
* at the new CIRE website (http://www.infoforhealth.org/cire), 
* through an e-mail listserv (sign up for the listserv at the CIRE
  website), 
* in the weekly e-zine "The Pop Reporter" (sign up at
  http://www.jhuccp.org/popreporter) (Current subscribers to "The Pop
  Reporter" will receive CIRE announcements as part of their sub-
  scription.).

CIRE is a collaborative effort of WHO's Department of Reproductive 
Health and Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for 
Communication Programs (CCP). CCP culls reports selected for CIRE 
from POPLINE (http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform), the comprehensive bib-
liographic database on reproductive health and related topics managed 
by CCP's INFO Project. 

CIRE collects and reports on new research findings potentially rele-
vant to WHO's Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use 
(MEC) and Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use 
(SPR). The MEC provide family planning providers worldwide with guid-
ance on the appropriateness of the various contraceptive methods for 
women and men with certain health conditions; for example, should 
women with high blood pressure use the Pill? The SPR answer major 
questions about providing contraceptives; for example, when can an 
IUD be inserted? (The MEC and SPR are available at 
http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/family_planning )

To update its guidance and address new issues regularly, WHO will 
consider the findings that CIRE collects, evaluate them, and present 
the analysis to consensus-development meetings of family planning ex-
perts from around the world. WHO plans to update both the MEC and SPR 
within the next 18 months.

For more information contact 
Robert Jacoby
Editor of "The Pop Reporter"
mailto:rjacoby@jhuccp.org


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Peggy D'Adamo
JHU Center for Communication Programs
mailto:mdadamo@jhuccp.org

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