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 |