For five months, two mobile clinics covered more than 10,000 kilometers to serve 59 remote localities in seven districts. More than 14,000 people benefited from pre- and postnatal consultations, family planning services, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) screening and treatment and educational sessions.
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Guttmacher Institute Releases Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles for More Than 130 Countries
New evidence builds the case for increased investment in sexual and reproductive health care in low- and middle-income countries
APHRC and Guttmacher Institute announce partnership to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) and the Guttmacher Institute are proud to announce their partnership to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
National ownership of family planning: What do FP2020 commitments have to do with it?
This paper seeks to understand the political economy of commitments and normative best practice within FP national programs, contributing to “stock taking” of change objectives for national ownership and domestic financing of FP programs post FP2020.
Diversity and solidarity in global health
Everyone, equally, has a human right to health.However, our health systems, communities, and nations do not support people's health equally or equitably.
Applications of the High Impact Practices in Family Planning during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially strained health systems across the globe. In particular, documented disruptions to voluntary family planning and reproductive health care due to competing health priorities, service disruptions, stockouts, and lockdowns are significantly impacting reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health.
WHO-FP Accelerator Project Newsletter
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.
Post-Abortion Care & Postpartum Family Planning During COVID-19
Opportunities and Challenges: An Interview with GHSP Journal Authors
Global Call to Action for the Provision of Rights-Based, Client-Centered SRH During and After COVID-19
The global health community reaffirms its commitment to ensuring rights-based, clientcentered SRH services, including the full range of available contraceptive methods, HIV/STI prevention, testing, and treatment, and cervical cancer services during and after COVID-19.
FP2020 calls for universal access to family planning services
More women have access to family planning information and services than ever before. Yet millions of women in developing countries who want to prevent pregnancy are still not using modern contraceptives. According to Family Planning 2020 (FPP2020), a global community set up during the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, 314 million women and girls were… Continue reading FP2020 calls for universal access to family planning services
