Glossary
Glossary
| ACC/SCN | Administrative Committee on Coordination/Subcommittee on Nutrition |
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| AED | Academy for Educational Development |
| AIDS | Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AMRO | Regional Office of the World Health Organization |
| ANC | Antenatal Care |
| AOL | America on Line |
| APH | Antepartum Hemorrhage |
| API | AIDS Program Effort Index |
| AR | Abortion Rate |
| ARH | Adolescent Reproductive Health |
| ARI | Acute Respiratory Infections |
| ASFR | Age Specific Fertility Rate |
| ATTI | Admission to Treatment Time Interval |
| BABIES | Birth Weight, Age at death, Boxes, Intervention, Evaluation System |
| BCC | Behavior Change Communication |
| BCG | Bacille Calmette-Guerin |
| BEMFAM | Sociedade Civil Bem-Estar Familiar no Brasil |
| BEOC | Basic Essential Obstetric Care |
| BFHI | Baby Friendly Hospitals Initiative |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| BSS | Behavioral Surveillance Survey |
| BUCEN | Bureau of Census |
| BWSMR | Birth Weight Specific Mortality Rate |
| CAFS | Center for African Family Studies |
| CAs | Cooperating Agencies |
| CBD | Community Based Distribution |
| CBR | Crude Birth Rate |
| CDC | Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CED | Chronic Energy Deficiency |
| CEOC | Comprehensive Essential Obstetric Care |
| CF | Complementary Feeding |
| CFR | Case Fatality Rate |
| CHANGE | Center for Health and Gender Equity |
| CHR | Committee on Human Research |
| COCs | Combined Oral Contraceptives |
| CPI | Client-Provider Interactions |
| CPR | Contraceptive Prevalence Rate |
| CPTs | Contraceptive Procurement Table |
| CRLP | Center for Reproductive Law and Policy |
| CSI | Care and Support Indicator |
| CSO | Civil Society Organization |
| CYP | Couple Years Protection |
| DFID | British Department for International Development |
| DHS | Demographic Health Survey |
| DTFR | Desired Total Fertility Rate |
| EBR | Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate |
| END | Early Neonatal Death |
| ENMR | Early Neonatal Mortality Rate |
| EOC | Essential Obstetric Care |
| EPI | Expanded Program on Immunization |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| FEFO | First-Expiry / First-Out |
| FGC | Female Genital Cutting |
| FGM | Female Genital Mutilation |
| FHI | Family Health International |
| FHI | BSS Family Health International Behavioral Surveillance Survey |
| FP | Family Planning |
| FFP/RH | Family Planning / Reproductive Health |
| FPMD | Family Planning Management Development |
| GPA | Global Programme on AIDS |
| GPS | Geographic Positioning System |
| HARI | Helping Individuals Achieve their Reproductive Intentions |
| HCP | Health Care Provider |
| HIS | Health Information Systems |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HPLC | High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| HRM | Human Resource Management |
| ICD | International Classification of Disease |
| ICPD | International Conference on Population and Development |
| ICRW | International Center for Research on Women |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology |
| IDD | Iodine Deficiency Disorder |
| IDP | Internally Displaced Persons |
| IEC | Information Education Communication |
| IGSS | Guatemalan Institute of Social Security |
| INACG | International Nutritional Anemia Consultative Group |
| IOM/NAS | Institute of Medicine / National Academy of Sciences |
| IOS | International Organization for Standardization |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPPF | International Planned Parenthood Federation |
| IPPF/WHR | International Planned Parenthood Federation / Western Hemisphere Region |
| IPV | Intimate Partner Violence |
| IRB | Internal Review Board |
| ISP | Internet Service Providers |
| IU | International Units |
| IUD | Intra-uterine Device |
| IUGR | Intrauterine Growth Retardation |
| IVACG | International Vitamin A Consultative Group |
| JHU | Johns Hopkins University |
| JHU/CCP | Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs |
| JHPIEGO | Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics |
| JSI | John Snow Incorporated |
| KPC | Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage |
| LAM | Lactational Amenorrhea Method |
| LAMM | Latin American Maternal Mortality |
| LAR | LAM Acceptor Rate |
| LBW | Low Birth Weight |
| LIAT | Logistics Information Assessment Tool |
| LMIS | Logistics Management Information System |
| LNMR | Late Neonatal Mortality Rate |
| LSAT | Logistics System Assessment Tool |
| LUR | Lactational Amenorrhea Method Use Rate |
| M&E | Monitoring and Evaluation |
| MASFR | Marital Age-Specific Fertility Rate |
| MCH | Maternal Child Health |
| MEASURE | Monitoring and Evaluation to ASsess and Use REsults |
| MICS | Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey |
| MIS | Management Information System |
| MMR | Maternal Mortality Ratio |
| MNPI | Maternal Neonatal Program Index |
| MOH | Ministry of Health |
| MSH | Management Sciences for Health |
| MOST | Management and Organizational Sustainability Tool |
| MTCT | Mother to Child Transmission |
| MUAC | Mid Upper Arm Circumference |
| MVA | Manual Vacuum Aspiration |
| NCPD | National Council for Population and Development Kenya |
| NEHK | New Emergency Health Kit |
| NFP | Natural Family Planning |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| NHS | National Health Service |
| NIDI | Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute |
| NMR | Neonatal Mortality Rate |
| NT | Neonatal Tetanus |
| NTMR | Neonatal Tetanus Mortality Rate |
| OB-GYN | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| OCHA | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs |
| OD | Organization Development |
| OR | Operations Research |
| ORC | Opinion Research Corporation |
| PAC | Postabortion Care |
| PAHO | Pan American Health Organization |
| PAI | Population Action International |
| PAPFAM | Pan Arab Family Health Surveys |
| PCS/JHU/CCP | Population Communication Services |
| PASCA | Programa Acción SIDA de Centro América |
| PES | Policy Environment Score |
| PIN | Prevention Indicators |
| PI | Performance Improvement |
| PIT | Presumptive Intermittent Treatment |
| PL | 480 Public Law 480 |
| PMP | Performance Monitoring Plans |
| PMR | Perinatal Mortality Rate |
| PNA | Performance Needs Assessment |
| PNC | Postnatal Care |
| PNMR | Perinatal Mortality Rate |
| PPC | Postpartum Care |
| PRB | Population Reference Bureau |
| PSI | Population Services International |
| PVO | Private Voluntary Organization |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QAP | Quality Assurance Project |
| QAP/URC | Quality Assurance Project University Research Corporation |
| QC | Quality of Care |
| QIQ | Quick Investigation of Quality |
| RAMOS | Reproductive Age Mortality Surveys |
| RBP | Retinol Binding Protein |
| RH | Reproductive Health |
| RHS | Reproductive Health Survey |
| RPR | Rapid Plasma Reagin |
| SA | Situation Analysis |
| SAM | Service Availability Module |
| SDP | Service Delivery Point |
| SEICUS | Sexual Information and Education Council of the United States |
| SPA | Service Provision Assessment |
| SRH | Sexual-Reproductive Health |
| STI | Sexually Transmitted Infections |
| SV | Sexual Violence |
| TA | Technical Assistance |
| TAR | Total Abortion Rate |
| TB | Tuberculosis |
| TBA | Traditional Birth Attendants |
| TFR | Total Fertility Rate |
| TIS | Training Information System |
| TMFR | Total Marital Fertility Rate |
| TT | Tetanus Toxoid |
| UNAIDS | Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS |
| UNFPA | United Nations Population Fund |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children?s Fund |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| UTFR | Unwanted Total Fertility Rate |
| VAS | Visual and Analogue Scale |
| VAW | Violence Against Women |
| VCT | Voluntary Counseling and Testing |
| VDRL | Venereal Disease Reference Laboratory |
| VE | Vaccine Efficacy |
| VSC | Voluntary Surgical Contraception |
| WFS | World Fertility Survey |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WHO/MI | World Health Organization Micronutrient |
| WHR | World Health Report |
| WRA | Women of Reproductive Age |
| WTFR | Wanted Total Fertility Rate |