Family Planning Briefs

USAID Population and Reproductive Health Programs

• Population Assistance Program: Overview and Accomplishments
• Population and Reproductive Health Programs: A U.S. Foreign Assistance Success Story
• Voluntary Participation and Informed Choice in Family Planning

Why Family Planning?

• Fast Facts: Family Planning - October 2011 [PDF, 504KB]
• Family Planning Improves Quality of Life and Opportunities for Women [PDF, 53KB]
• Family Planning Saves Lives [PDF, 60KB]
• Family Planning Prevents Abortion
• Also available in Spanish
• Healthier Mothers and Children Through Birth Spacing [PDF, 83KB]
• Unmet Need for Family Planning [PDF, 77KB]

Family Planning Services

• Expanding Contraceptive Choices: Natural Family Planning [PDF, 94KB]
• Family Planning Services
• Human Resources for Health [PDF, 58KB]
• Long-Acting and Permanent Methods of Contraception: Meeting Clients’ Needs [PDF, 102KB]
• No Product, No Program: Financing, Procurement and Distribution of Reproductive Health Supplies

Partnerships

• Community-Based Health Workers Can Safely and Effectively Administer Injectable Contraceptives: Conclusions from a WHO/USAID/FHI Technical Consultation [PDF, 149KB]
• Also available in French [339KB]
• Increasing the Role of the Private Health Sector [PDF, 76KB]
• USAID Partners With Faith- and Community-Based Organizations in Family Planning Programs

• Briefing Paper: The Status of Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF, 111KB]
• Adding Family Planning to PMTCT Sites Increases the Benefits of PMTCT
• Balancing People and the Environment to Promote Resilient Communities [PDF, 214KB]
• Decentralization of Postabortion Care in Senegal and Tanzania [PDF, 144KB]
• Ensuring Quality Family Planning Services Throughout the World
• Family Planning in the Era of HIV/AIDS: More Important Than Ever [PDF, 64KB]
• Family Planning for Postpartum Women: Seizing a Missed Opportunity
• Population Census Fact Sheets: Population Estimates and Projections [PDF, 85KB]
  • Socioeconomic and Demographic Surveys [PDF, 134KB]
  • Statistical Capacity Building [PDF, 188KB]
• Postabortion Care: Protecting Health and Saving Lives [PDF, 92KB]
• Repositioning Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF, 136KB]
• Supporting Youth: Educating Young People About Reproductive Health So They Can Achieve Their Fullest Potential [PDF, 132KB]
• What Is the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign? [PDF, 81KB]
• Issue Brief: Working to Eradicate Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting [PDF, 840KB]