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Pictured: Health worker counselling. Photo by Grace Ojirot
Family planning (FP) services promote the right of an individual or couple to choose their number of children. However, many barriers can keep people from realising this right.
In Uganda, broadening the contraceptive method mix remains challenging. The national contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) is 35%, with 25% using short-acting methods, especially injectables (21%).
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Improving rights-based family planning
Medical, nursing and midwifery students across three regions in Tanzania will now receive up-to-date training and assessment in postpartum family planning before they graduate, thanks to the work of FIGO’s Postpartum Intrauterine Device (PPIUD) Initiative and a broad range of stakeholders.
Sustainable Postpartum Family Planning in Tanzania
Women living in war-torn countries such as Darfur and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa want to limit the number of children they have, but they rarely have access to contraceptives, a new study has found.
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Family planning in conflict zones
Women in low-income areas in the US are more likely to be given incorrect sexual and reproductive health and rights advice about emergency contraception than those in wealthier neighbourhoods, a new study has revealed.
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Emergency contraception in low-income areas
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has announced that the theme of World Population Day 2013 - observed on July 11th - will be adolescent pregnancy.In a statement, the organisation said that complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death worldwide for 15 to 19-year-olds, especially in the developing world.
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Adolescent pregnancy on World Population Day
The executive director of the United Nations Population Fund has argued that many commentators do not realise that the leading causes of maternal mortality are "largely preventable" and can be treated cheaply.
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Maternal death is preventable
Bangladesh is on a journey towards universal family planning.
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Accelerating Family Planning in Bangladesh
FIGO Past President Sir Prof Sabaratnam Arulkumaran shares his vision for postpartum family planning, and his commitment to women’s health and rights.
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Sir Arul, Postpartum Family Planning Champion
Long-term investments in the sexual and reproductive health of girls and women can allow them to make important life choices such as when they marry, when they begin sexual activity, and how many children they have and when.
Contraception: the key to achieving SDGs by 2030
Female Community Health Volunteers play a critical role in extending access to family planning counselling and IUD insertion in Nepal.
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Celebrating Female Community Health Volunteers