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As part of FHA’s clinical family planning training program in Afghanistan, trainees undergo a rigorous evaluation process in order to receive a certificate of completion.  Trainees consist of female Afghan midwives and doctors from more than ten different provinces in Afghanistan.  The curriculum includes infection prevention methods, family planning methods and counseling, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS education and prevention.  The program’s evaluation process includes a pretest/post-test where knowledge is measured at baseline and is compared to knowledge at the end of the training, and a clinical skills assessment where the level of skill during clinical work with a patient is measured.  Further, in order to assess the outcome of the program and to enable Family Health Alliance to improve its future programs, a course evaluation and a trainer evaluation tool is used. 

A significant increase in knowledge and skills level was gained by the Afghan health providers during this training program.  An increase in trainee knowledge (from 53% on the pretest to 89% on the post-test) and an average score of 86% on the clinical skills test was achieved.