Instituto Peruano de Paternidad Responsable (INPPARES) has 68 clinical centres with 127 medical offices, 25 community distribution points and 815 promoters providing family planning to all parts of the country.
We work with community groups and private doctors to integrate family planning services with maternal and child health programmes, and conduct information, education and communication activities.
We have expanded our sterilization, intra-uterine device (IUD) and Norplant services.
INPPARES co-ordinates its efforts with the Ministry of Health and local government to serve tiny communities with no access to health care around the country.
The Family Planning Brigades, which reach into remote communities, serve approximately 400,000 people.
INPPARES is the largest provider of family planning services among the private not-for-profit organizations in the country.
We provide training in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, to health workers, teachers and journalists.
INPPARES has established a for-profit business, PROPATER, which sells pharmaceuticals and drugs and collaborates with Leiras Pharmaceutical, a Finnish company, to market the contraceptive Norplant in the country.
INPPARES Youth Programme employs:
- physicians
- social workers
- psychologists
- health educators
- youth volunteers
- communications experts
- employment counsellors
The training of professionals working with young people involves utilizing a peer-education model and trains 100 youth promoters a year.
Youth volunteers do outreach work in schools, in the community, and directly to beachgoers along the city beaches.
The INPPARES health and family planning fairs have been a key channel for teaching the residents of vast shanty-towns about sexual and reproductive health.
Held in the open air, where booths adorned with posters and pamphlets are set up next to one another, health fairs have all the elements of any fair: music, food and local celebrities, as well as much needed information and services.
Fairs are held three times a year and the organizations that participate include the Ministry of Health, the Homosexual Movement of Lima, and Via Libre (an AIDS organization).