Tag: Contraception

INTRODUCTION West Africa has one of the highest fertility rates in the world at 5.5 children per woman (Ouagadougou Partnership 2011). The region also has one of the lowest contraceptive prevalence rates (19.1%) and one of the highest rates of unmet need for contraception (27.2%) in the world (Ouagadougou Partnership 2011). The resulting large number […]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), those aged between 10 and 19 are adolescents, with ages 10 to 14 and 15 to 19 as early and late adolescence, respectively. Bangladesh has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies outside of Sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNFPA, with 113 out of 1000 teenage girls become pregnant before […]

A new video showcasing the Training Resource Package (TRP) by www.fptraining.org has been pubished. The Training Resource Package (TRP) for Family Planning is designed to address the dynamic professional needs of health workers across all clinical and community-based cadres and for adaptation and use for ‘in-service’ and ‘pre-service’ competency-based training.  The Package includes modules, training […]

Introduction: In francophone West Africa (FWA), contraceptive uptake remains limited, often due to geographic, economic, and social barriers. With technical support from The Challenge Initiative (TCI), municipalities and health systems implemented Family Planning Special Days (FPSDs) to improve family planning (FP) uptake and reduce high unmet need. The FPSD intervention consisted of organizing free FP […]

FP2030 is a global partnership for family planning. Building on the successes and lessons of FP2020, the family planning community is embarking on a new decade of progress. The FP2030 partnership will preserve and expand on the best of FP2020 but shift the balance of power so that countries are in the lead, decision-making is […]

The Guttmacher Institute is pleased to announce the release of the Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator, an interactive tool designed to help advocates, donors and governments estimate the benefits that would accrue from investing in family planning programs and services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).This tool offers a new way to showcase how access […]

This webinar presented on April 26, 2022, focused on how social and behavior change programming is well suited to addressing equity and social determinants of health in family planning/reproductive health. It also explored how to apply these to efforts for social and structural change pertaining to contraceptive autonomy and reproductive empowerment. Presentations featured the voices and […]

Global Health Media Project is pleased to present their entire set of family planning videos. There are 34 videos for health workers and 20 videos for women and their partners. In addition, there are 9 “teaching shorts”, which capture the key steps in the skills videos. The videos present up-to-date standards (2022) on these important […]

The PRB have released a new factsheet on contraceptive decision making exploring what factors can can help us predict which women are at risk of stopping contraceptive use while in need of contraceptives. Women who stop using a contraceptive method usually do so within the first two years, and more than one third quit within […]

The PACE Project by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is delighted to announce an exciting update of our Choices and Challenges tool, which highlights trends in women’s contraceptive uptake, discontinuation, and method-switching by age group, as well as reasons for discontinuation and related reproductive outcomes, in an accessible, user-friendly format. Our 2022 update now includes […]