The levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (IUD), also known as the hormonal IUD or hormonal intrauterine system (IUS), has been added for the first time to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Product Catalog and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Product Catalog.
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Family Planning is not just for “old and married people”: Reflections on the challenges and realities of misinformation around family planning and HIV from EGPAF’s Committee of African Youth Advisors
We are young people living with HIV from 11 African countries who make up the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation’s Committee of African Youth Advisors (CAYA). In our respective countries, we hold different roles such as peer educators, youth champions, and youth advocates. We also actively engage in dialogues about adolescent and youth reproductive health at national and local levels.
Displaced Rohingya navigate new parenthood in Bangladesh
According to a survey, non-facility childbirth, which heightens the risk of injury and death, has fallen in the past few decades in Bangladesh. Half are now institutional deliveries, a major driver of the increase in deliveries by medically trained providers.
Faith-Based Advocacy for Family Planning Works: Evidence From Kenya and Zambia
It is often assumed that religion has a negative influence on family planning (FP), yet virtually all faith traditions support the concept of healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy. Interfaith support for FP exists, as shown in the Interfaith Declaration to Improve Family Health and Wellbeing, which was signed by a committee of Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist leaders, to promote using their networks to promote healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies.
Accelerating Quality Family Planning Services
The WHO FP Accelerator project supports partners and ministries of health (MoH) to accelerate quality and rights-based family planning (FP) services within the broader frameworks of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the WHO 13th Global Programme of Work (GPW13). The project contributes specifically to attainment of SDG targets 3.1, 3.7 and 5.6, and to the GPW13 goal of 1 billion more people covered by UHC. The WHO-FP Accelerator Project is coordinated by the Contraception and Fertility Care (CFC) Unit in the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/SRH) and implemented with WHO’s Regional and Country offices
A New Path Towards Institutionalizing Meaningful Youth Participation: How to Move from Promises to Practices
Most organizations who work with and for young people strive to genuinely involve young people in their work—after all ‘nothing about us, without us’ is a slogan we’ve heard time and time again. This serves as a reminder that if you want programs and policies targeted at young people to work, you must have youth’s full and meaningful participation.
As Countries Write FP2030 Commitments, New Podcast Shares the Secrets to Success: Step 1 Is Centering Youth
Beverly Nkirote, FP2030 Youth Focal Point for Kenya, is a Program Officer at the Network for Adolescents and Youth of Africa (NAYA), a youth-led regional advocacy network committed to sexual and reproductive health and rights advocacy.
A long way to go: engagement of men and boys in country family planning commitments and implementation plans
Evidence shows that, to reach global goals related to women and girls’ access to modern family planning (FP) and gender equality, it is critical to understand and account for the role of men and boys as users of reproductive health services, as partners for millions of women & girls around the world, and as advocates in their communities.
Implementation Stories: How Programs Use High Impact Practices and WHO Guidelines
In early 2020, the WHO/IBP Network and Knowledge SUCCESS Project launched an effort to support organizations to share their experiences using High Impact Practices (HIPs) and WHO Guidelines and Tools in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Programming.
Accelerating Family Planning Progress in West Africa Through Mass Media: One Success Story in Burkina Faso
An estimated 218 million women across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have an unmet need for contraception: that is, they want to avoid a pregnancy but are not using modern contraceptives. Mass media reaches a large share of the population in these countries, but how effective is it in changing behaviors? To answer this question, Development Media International (DMI) conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of an intensive, 30-month radio campaign in Burkina Faso that promoted family planning. The trial was funded by the Global Innovation Fund (GIF), Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and an individual philanthropist.
