Today, on World Contraception Day, FP2020 and K4Health are pleased to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Family Planning Voices (FP Voices), a digital storytelling initiative to document and share real stories from real people around the world who are passionate about family planning.

A lack of adequate guidance, facilities, and materials for girls to manage their menstruation in school is a neglected public health, social, and educational issue that requires prioritization, coordination, and investment . There are growing efforts from academia, the development sector, and beyond to understand and address the challenges facing menstruating schoolgirls in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).

The USAID Deliver Project issued three new briefs highlighting its contraceptive security work in West and Central Africa.

FHI 360 has developed and published service delivery tools and job aids for health care providers — practical materials to use when serving clients in clinical or community-based settings. The tools reflect the latest international recommendations from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The WHO guideline is the first ever to give evidence-based recommendations on the safety, effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of involving a range of health workers in the delivery of recommended and effective interventions for providing safe abortion and post-abortion care, including post-abortion contraception.

Self-injection of the novel injectable contraceptive Sayana Press could help overcome access barriers and improve women’s ability to manage their health.

How contraceptives—especially long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs)—can improve the health and wellbeing of young women is a topic that presents tough questions.

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.

This comprehensive report describes an assessment E2A conducted of efforts to strengthen postabortion care services in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, and Togo. The assessment, conducted in 2012, followed the implementation of action plans by these four countries for strengthening postabortion family planning services.

Ce document décrit une évaluation qui E2A a entrepris des soins après avortement (SAA) services au Burkina Faso. E2A a réalisé des évaluations de SAA dans quatre pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest: Burkina Faso, Guinée, Sénégal et le Togo.