Family Planning Information Service/Family Planning Promotion Service
- Date:
- 1976-1993
- Reference:
- SA/FPA/C/B/2/6
- Part of:
- Family Planning Association
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
Annotated copy minutes, agendas, notes, papers, budgets and correspondence of the FPIS Liaison meetings between the FPA and The Health Education Council.
Publication/Creation
1976-1993
Physical description
22 files
Biographical note
The Family Planning Information Service, supported jointly by the FPA and the Health Education Council, was established in January 1977 to provide an information and enquiry service on all aspects of family planning, sexual and personal relationships. Free family planning literature and publicity services were provided not only for the general public but for health professionals as well.
The service was funded by government subsidies from the DHSS, and later the Department of health, which was channelled through the HEC.
The day to day work of the FPIS was managed by the FPA. But the FPIS overall policies, strategies and budgets were controlled jointly by the HEC and the FPA through a Liaison/Steering Committee that met quarterly, consisting of three representatives of each body.
In 1990 FPIS became the Family Planning Promotion Service, and then the National Contraceptive Education Service in 1993, but changed it's name to the Contraceptive Education Service in 1998.