Farzana AslamZarqa Arshad

Contact Number: +923159473399 (PF)+923074940707. (WIC)

Service on phone: 24 hours.Service providers: Two trained lady counselors and a coordinatorArea covered: Sindh and Punjab provincesLanguages used by counselors: Sindhi,Urdu,Marwari,

Punjabi and SirakiFocused theme of hot line: Provide accurate

information on abortion and PPH

Sponsors: Mama Cash Technical Support: Women on Waves

Women on Web & ASAPFund granted : 4775 $ per IP

Suhaili Hot LineSuhaili Hot Line

1. 18% death due to unsafe abortion every year2. Women always looked for medicines to

terminate an unwanted pregnancy 3. Untrained midwives in rural areas4. Worse behaviour of service providers with

abortion seekers 5. Heavy charges for surgical abortion6. Lack of correct information on MA7. Lack of awareness8. Illiteracy 9. Confidentiality 10. Negative perception

• Receiving phone calls or Text massages.• Networking ( Elected person, Service

providers, Community groups & NGOs)• Community meetings. • Disburse information regarding sexual

and reproductive rights.• Disseminate information and contact

numbers

Spreading the word (abortion) to women in the community

Conducted press conferences News and Cell Numbers published on the

website of Mama Cash, WoW and ASAP Sending Short text messages on cell

phone – publicized Hotline number Press advertisement of cell number: Mobilization meetings

• Male dominancy• Use of contraceptives • Illiterate/ rural women • Lack of women in decision making institutions• Religious Values• Cultural barriers• Misconception• Late night calls• Trust on information • Perception regarding marriage• Fake Medicine

Challenges / Lesson learnt

Success Success • 12,000 calls received till Feb ,2012 ( Respond calls unlimited) in Sindh• 5,000 calls received till now.• No of calls increasing day by day.• Clients refer our number to their relatives and friends.• Initially caller majority callers were males but now we get more calls from females• People have started trusting us.•Misoprostol became available with rural pharmacist • After our training/s Midwives, Nurses and LHVs started using and advising Misoprostol in a rural areas (for MA and PPH)

The maximum calls were received from persons aged between 25 to 30 years (35%) followed by an almost equal distribution in the immediate younger and older age group i.e. 20 to 24 years(29%) and 30 to 34 years (28%). 6% of callers were between 16 to 19 years old.

 

Information on Safe Abortion 80.5 % Information on Post Partum

Haemorrhage 6.3% Information on Contraception 2% Information on Sexual Violence 0.4% Information on Domestic Violence

0.2% Any Other 8.5% More than 2 of the above reason .8%

• There is a demand to courier MA Pills . – PF is plannedplanned to buy Misoprostol from whole sale market

and then send to women through VP post courier.• PF is planned to open two outlet centers(franchise)

– to guide women regarding SRH along with appropriate referral

• PF planned to run a legislative advocacy campaign. – Our current legal system is at times religious and at

times social. Police stations and law enforcing agencies are entitled to use any version of legal system. In male dominated society laws reflect only demands of men.

PF planned to run a website in Urdu language ( it will be fruit full all over country)