Given that several different documents have addressed WHO guidance on postpartum family planning, the electronic WHO Postpartum Family Planning Compendium (http://srhr.org/postpartumfp) has been introduced. This resource integrates essential guidance on postpartum family planning for clinicians, program managers, and policy makers.

CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health is proud to announce a new online course for federal, state, and local public health and other health professionals. The course highlights preparedness and response resources and tools specific to the field of reproductive health in emergencies.

Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) is an under-utilized approach to family planning and maternal and child health education, counseling and services to help families have planned pregnancies at the healthiest times of their lives for the best outcomes for mother and child. The HTSP I-Kit is designed to help program managers address the risks of pregnancies among women aged 35 and older (of advanced maternal age, or AMA) and women having five or more births (high-parity, or HP) in their family planning or maternal and child health programs.

A newsletter by The Communication Initiative that emphasizes and outlines the importance of attending to women at all ends of the age spectrum, involving men in family planning and decisions, education while entertaining, empower healthcare workers, creating and enabling an environment for family planning, and intersecting with other related services.

41% of women delivering in the social franchise private facilities chose the postpartum IUD. Factors associated with acceptance included lower education, higher parity, and being single. Scale-up of postpartum IUD services in both public and private facilities has the potential to significantly increase use of long-acting reversible contraception in Nigeria.

From February 9-11 2016, the Population Council (through the Evidence Project and the STEP UP consortium) and the High Impact Practices (HIP) Collaboration, together with other partners, held the third and final in a series of meetings on Standards of Evidence for Reproductive and Maternal Health Care at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.

One year after Madagascar developed postpartum family planning action plans specific to the needs of this beautiful island nation, I had the chance to visit. The Madagascar country team was one of 16 to leave the 2015 Accelerating Access to Postpartum Family Planning meeting in Thailand with designs to ensure that every woman be offered a means to prevent an unintended pregnancy in the two years after a birth. I was eager to see what had happened since.

La prématurité est associée à des maladies graves ou au décès au cours de la période néonatale. Sans traitement approprié, les survivants sont souvent confrontés à des incapacités permanentes et à une mauvaise qualité de vie.

Destaques e principais mensagens das recomendações globais de 2014 da Organização Mundial da Saúde

Puntos destacados y mensajes clave de las Recomendaciones mundiales de la Organización Mundial de la Salud para 2014