Background: Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is one of the strategic efforts mentioned in National Family Planning Strategy 2011/12 and FP Costed implementation plan 2015-2020 Nepal. women are recognized as groups that need attention to strengthen services country. Methods: We conducted a situational analysis Nepal from December ...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS To guide achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, we used the Lives Saved Tool to provide a novel simulation of potential maternal, fetal, and newborn lives and costs saved by scaling up midwifery and obstetrics services, including family planning, in 58 low- and middle-income countries. Typical midwifery and obstetrics interventions were scaled to either 60% of t...

Statistics from the 1978 survey of the National Inventory of Family Planning Services are presented on demographic and institutional characteristics of service sites that provide medical and nonmedical family plannlng services. Data are given on the physical location of the service sites, their operating responsibility, the number of patients served, medical and ancillary services provided, and...

BACKGROUND Young people often express a preference for seeking family planning information and services from the private sector. However, in many Marie Stopes International (MSI) social franchise networks, the proportion of young clients, and particularly those under 20 years of age, remains low. Marie Stopes Madagascar (MSM) piloted a youth voucher program that joins a supply-side intervention...

BACKGROUND While Rwanda has achieved impressive gains in contraceptive coverage, unmet need for family planning is high, and barriers to accessing quality reproductive health services remain. Few studies in Rwanda have qualitatively investigated factors that contribute to family planning use, barriers to care, and quality of services from the community perspective. METHODS We undertook a qual...

Over the last fifty years, reproductive behaviour has become widely accepted as a major concern of governments. In the 1960s, governments were urged to strive for ‘zero population growth’ but in 1968, the United Nations began viewing family planning as a human rights issue rather than focusing only on population control and demographics. By the 1990s, UN documents were empowering women in matte...

short-acting contraceptive methods, with inadequate counselling and barriers in the health care system being contributory factors in such contraceptive failure. Participant knowledge of sterilisation was greater than that regarding IUDs in this study, probably owing to the presence of sterilisation services in the Western Cape and the lack of IUD promotion and use. The Association for Voluntary...

This article is based on work into the sexual health needs of people with learning disabilities, carried out by a working group of the RCN Family Planning Forum. Literature searches were conducted, and local initiatives, specialist services and information sources for training and education for clients and staff were identified. The authors' aim in this article is to increase awareness among th...