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Red Segura El Salvador

last updated Jul 30, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
PSI / Pan American Social marketing Organziation (PASMO)
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2011
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Out-of-pocket payments
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor, Membership/subscription fees
Funders: 
Anonymous Donor

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
100<
Number of Clients Served: 
Over 8,000
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
40
Summary: 

Red Segura (meaning "safe network" in Spanish) is a network of medical clinics that provide gynecological and family planning services of high quality at affordable prices, which seeks to expand the supply of services through training certification meeting quality standards with warmth.

Key program components: 

Network members are trained via classroom sessions practical training on an anatomical model and receive certification after five flawless observed client counseling sessions and IUD insertions.

These trained Red Segura outreach workers (called educadores) then create demand for reproductive health services, reaching potential clients in factories, markets and shopping centers, beauty salons, women's group meetings, university campuses and municipal fairs. They are responsible for promotion, home visits, FP counseling, as well as referrals.

All clinics offer IUDs, hormonal implants, OCs, injections, male condoms and prescriptions for all other modern contraception available in the country. Most clinics offer reproductive health services including cervical cancer screening and STI treatment.

Program history: 

The network was launched in 2011 with two doctor's clinics and grew to include 40 individual doctor's clinics, NGO operative clinics and several municipal and university clinics. The Red Segura network is constantly growing to meet its new demand.

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