Issue Briefs

	Source: Bita Rodrigues/USAID

• Community-Based Health Workers Can Safely and Effectively Administer Injectable Contraceptives: Conclusions from a Technical Consultation [PDF, 149KB]
  A technical consultation, co-sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), USAID, and Family Health International (FHI), was held June 15–17, 2009, at the WHO in Geneva to review the evidence and programmatic experience for community-based provision of injectable contraceptives.
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• Elements of Success in Family Planning Programming - September 2008 [PDF, 1.5MB]
  This issue of Population Reports offers an overview of the core factors contributing to the success of family planning programs. Family planning professionals around the world helped to identify these 10 crucial program elements. This report highlights program experiences, best practices, and evidence-based guidance derived from nearly six decades of experience in international family planning.
  
  
• Adding Family Planning to PMTCT Sites Increases PMTCT Benefits [PDF, 107KB]
  This brief describes the benefits of adding family planning (FP) services to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) sites, including decreases in child infections, child deaths, and unintended pregnancies.
  
  
• Family Planning in the Era of HIV/AIDS: More Important Than Ever [PDF, 64KB]
  This brief highlights the importance of integrating FP services and HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment as they are complementing health interventions.
  
  
• Human Resources for Health [PDF, 58KB]
  Three major human causes of health challenges are the HIV/AIDS crisis, labor migration, and chronic underinvestment in human resources. This brief outlines these challenges and describes possible solutions.
  
  
• Increasing the Role of the Private Health Sector [PDF, 76KB]
  The private health sector is an untapped resource in sub-Saharan Africa that could be mobilized to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This brief describes the importance of using the private health sector to provide quality health services.
  
  
• Long-Acting and Permanent Methods of Contraception: Meeting Clients' Needs [PDF, 102KB]
  This brief details how the availability and use of long-acting and permanent methods of contraception are important in achieving national development goals.
  
  
• No Product, No Program: Financing, Procurement, and Distribution of Reproductive Health Supplies [PDF, 57KB]
  This brief describes the necessary components required to improve contraceptive security, including systems strengthening, supply chain vigilance, private sector involvement, supportive national policies, and global coordination and advocacy.
  
  
• Repositioning Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF, 136KB]
  Crucial to the success of the Repositioning Family Planning initiative are increased political commitment for FP, strengthened participation and coordination, and a more effective allocation of resources toward technically sound programs. This brief provides an overview of this initiative.
  
  
• USAID’s Family Planning Services [PDF, 71KB]
  USAID has long been a leader in the effort to improve health by providing couples with voluntary FP services. This brief describes USAID’s FP vision, priorities, and programs.
  
  
• Family Planning Success Stories in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF, 186KB]
  Evidence from Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia demonstrates that rapid uptake and sustained use of modern FP methods can occur in even the most poor, resource-strapped, and largely rural countries.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Contribution of Family Planning Briefs

This series of briefs, which is based on the multicountry study Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Contribution of Family Planning, looks at how one strategy — meeting the need for FP — can reduce population growth and make achieving the MDGs more affordable. The strategy can also directly contribute to the goals of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.