STRIDES for Family Health, a USAID funded program in Uganda — implemented by MSH in partnership with Jhpiego, Meridian International and the Ugandan organization Communication for Development Foundation—works with the Ministry of Health, districts, their communities, local private organizations, and individual private providers in up to 15 districts to increase contraceptive use and healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP), decrease maternal and child mortality, and create a scalable nationwide intervention by the year 2015.