Patient perspectives on quality family planning services in underserved areas

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

Family Planning Targets and Quality of Services : Workers ’ Perspectives and Dilemmas

on quality of care as well as the strong connection between targets and the management system. The findings show that the presence of targets influenced the advice and information workers provided, pushing them towards long-term methods such as sterilisation and the IUD rather than helping clients select methods most suited to their needs. The paper then shows the connection between the target ...

Quality of family planning services in northwest Ethiopia

Background: The unmet need for family planning services in Ethiopia is believed to be high (36%) while the already available services do not appear to be optimally used by potential clients. It is thus expected that an assessment and improvement of the quality of family planning services could enhance family planning services utilization. Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the quali...

Family planning providers' perspectives on dual protection.

CONTEXT Family planning providers can play an important role in helping women to identify their risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and to adopt preventive measures. In-depth investigation of providers' attitudes about approaches to STD risk assessment, contraceptive counseling and dual protection--concurrent protection from STDs and unintended pregnancy--has been limited...

Provider perspectives on barriers to family planning quality in Uganda: a qualitative study.

BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY Provider perspectives on the quality of family planning services have been overlooked in quality of care research and interventions. This qualitative study was carried out in four districts in Uganda, a country where lack of access to quality family planning services remains a challenge. Using four focus group discussions, 16 provider in-depth interviews and nine mana...