Member Associations

Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa, and the tenth most populous in the world, has enormous sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges as the statistics demonstrate.  The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015. It has a broad reach which focuses on providing poor and marginalized populations with family planning, safe abortion care, maternal and child health care, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) including HIV and AIDS and associated opportunistic infections.  In the shape of permanent clinics, mobile facilities and community-based services (CBSs), FGAE has numerous service points. Staff, backed by over thousands of volunteers, hundreds of peer educators and demand creators.   There’s no disguising the fact that achieving proper SRH amongst the Ethiopian people is an exhausting uphill struggle. FGAE has the will, the determination and the backing to fight for people’s rights and welfare.  Access is key to the Member Association’s activity, and it works extensively with young people to inform, educate and provide essential SRH services. FGAE also runs special projects targeted at particularly vulnerable individuals and groups: street children, people living with HIV and AIDS, sex workers, and young migrants in 8 of the 11 principal Regions in Ethiopia.  FGAE partners with government, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the  Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth, UNFPA-Ethiopia, CARE-Ethiopia, DKT-Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Women’s Lawyer Association, and a broad spectrum of HIV and AIDS-related operations.  Private sector partners include networks of 420 private health facilities and donors to the Member Association’s work include the Royal Netherlands Embassy, the Packard Foundation, IPPF’s Japan Trust Fund, USAID/CDC and DFID.   

The main goal of Yuksak Salohiyat is to promote the development and support of citizens' initiatives in the use of rights and freedoms in the construction of civil society, the development of progress and democratization, improving the quality of life of the population by maintaining health, raising the cultural and educational level, as well as promoting a healthy lifestyle. Main activities: health care, including issues of reproductive health, family planning, prevention of sexually transmitted infectious diseases, tuberculosis organization of educational work among the population of Uzbekistan on health and environmental issues formation of a complex of knowledge of the population in the following areas: legal, economic, social, medical, gender, environmental promotion of healthy lifestyles participation in the implementation of state programs to protect the health of the population, including women and children Contact: Instagram