Support from across the ocean. Mexico.

PIP: The Mexican Family Planning Foundation (MEXFAM) operates the Japanese supported Integrated Project (IP) which includes family planning, maternal and child health, and primary health care. MEXFAM is targeting youth in marginal areas. Its staff promote health education among adolescents using 38 projectors, 81 adolescent health films, and 37 sets of a magnetic board for teaching reproductive processes (Magnel Kit) purchased by the Voluntary Deposit for International Aid administered by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Japan. 40 MEXFAM supported physicians use this equipment as part of their afternoon health education activities in IP areas. MEXFAM helps physicians set up a consultation clinic and provides basic equipment in isolated areas. The community doctor program encourages the physicians to be self reliant in 2-3 years. The Municipal Coordinating Committee for Bicycle Assistance (MCCOBA) has donated reconditioned bicycles to these community doctors so they can contact the 15,000 people they are obliged to provide services to in peripheral areas of cities and isolated rural areas. The physicians also advise and educate communities. MCCOBA has also donated reconditioned bicycles to youth brigades who promote family planning and provide sex education and to community volunteer promoters who advance MEXFAM's program in each village. In October 1991, an additional 150 bicycles arrived for the IP. In 1990, it received 75 bicycles. In July 1991, the Tochigi Health Service Association donated a reconditioned mobil X ray van to MEXFAM. The Queretaro branch office of MEXFAM uses it to reach people in rural areas.^ieng