According to “Quality of Care and Contraceptive Use in Urban Kenya,” by Katherine Tumlinson, formerly of the Carolina Population Center, et al., providers’ interactions with family planning clients may play an important role in whether those clients adopt or continue contraceptive use.

Health workers do not walk into their client interactions as blank slates. They bring with them their personalities, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, understandings of “how the world works,” and biases.

These reports for Bangladesh, India, Kenya, and Senegal (in French) respond to a major evidence gap: the need for a comprehensive analysis of the full range of factors associated with unintended pregnancy, and identification of target needs.

This paper discusses Community-Based Health Planning and Service (CHPS) progress in the Upper East Region (UER) of Ghana, where the pace of scale up has been much more rapid than in the other 9 regions of the country despite exceedingly challenging economic, ecological, and social circumstances.

This statement is intended to support the implementation of task sharing practices with the objective of increasing access to sexual and reproductive health essential services, particularly for those who are more vulnerable. It is primarily intended for use by IPPF Member Associations (MAs). It is also useful for all organisations, activists and researchers, policy and decision-makers who are working towards increasing universal access to services.

This technical brief assesses the evidence on the role of health workers in the integration of family planning (FP) and HIV services and discusses key health worker considerations when integrating FP/HIV services, regardless of the integration model.

Training, equipping, and supporting community health workers to provide a wide range of contraceptive methods can help to increase contraceptive use, particularly where unmet family planning need is high, access to services is low, and geographic or social barriers to use of services exist.