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Family Planning E-Resources
- USAID Repositioning in Action E-Bulletin
This e-bulletin provides a forum for the exchange of information, experiences, and lessons learned as we work to improve sustainable access to quality family planning services and commodities. Available in English and French.
- Global Health News
This bimonthly e-newsletter, along with periodic e-mail updates, provides subscribers with the latest news, developments, speeches, and resources from USAID's Bureau for Global Health.
- Project Listing for Family Planning, Reproductive Health and Population Programs
- Reproductive Health Interchange (RHI)
RHI is a Web-based tool that collects order and shipment information for RH supplies procured by USAID’s Central Contraceptive Procurement project, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
- Communication for Change (C-Change)
C-Change is USAID's flagship program to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of behavior change and social change communication in development efforts. The ultimate goal is the improved health and well-being of people in the developing world.
- USAID's Global Health eLearning Center
One-time registration is quick and easy and gives you free access to all the Global Health eLearning courses, including Family Planning 101, Family Planning Legislative and Policy Requirements, Fostering Change in Health Services, Hormonal Methods of Contraception, Family Planning Counseling, and many more.
- Data Online for Population, Health and Nutrition (DOLPHN) System
The DOLPHN system is designed to provide users with quick and easy access to current and historical country-level demographic and health indicator data.
- Report to Congress: Child Survival and Health Programs Fund Progress Report – FY 2007 [PDF, 14MB]
This report describes USAID's strategic approaches, interventions and achievements in health that were reported during 2007. Access previous reports
- Postabortion Care (PAC) Strategy Paper - October 2004 [PDF, 762KB]
The overall goal of USAID’s PAC strategy is to reduce maternal mortality, morbidity, and repeat abortions.
- Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC): Family Planning
The USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the Agency's
primary online resource for development experience documents. Browse through Family Planning related documents available online.
Visit the INFO Project Web Site
With funding from USAID, the INFO Project houses a large library of resources available to family planning, reproductive health, and population audiences. INFO's One Source database helps visitors search through thousands of documents, articles, photos, communications materials, online communities, and Q&As available to health care practitioners. Visit INFO
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Partner Resources
- Contraceptive Discontinuation: A One-Year Follow-Up Study of Female Reversible Method Users in Urban Honduras - October 2008 [PDF, 275KB]
This study examines women's contraceptive use prospectively over a one-year period in four urban areas of Honduras. It goes beyond previous research by assessing the relative importance of and interactions among the family planning service environment, women's individual characteristics, and their experience with side effects on contraception continuation or discontinuation.
- Also available in Spanish [PDF, 363KB]
- Impact of Oportunidades on Contraceptive Methods Use in Adolescent and Young Adult Women Living in Rural Areas, 1997-2000 - December 2008 [PDF, 469KB]
Oportunidades is a social program run by the Mexican government that seeks to improve education, health, nutrition, and living conditions of those living in extreme poverty. People supported by the program attend monthly health talks, which include information on contraceptive methods.
- 2006 Bangladesh Urban Health Survey, Volumes I and II - December 2008
Current and expected urban growth in Bangladesh demonstrates that slums will likely be an increasingly important feature of urban existence in the country. Anticipating these developments, USAID and the Government of Bangladesh tasked a research team with conducting a survey designed to obtain a broad health profile of the urban population of Bangladesh.
- The Balanced Counseling Strategy (BCS) - November 2008
The Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program offers the BCS – a practical, interactive, client-friendly counseling strategy that uses three key job aids (visual memory aids) for counseling clients about family planning. The process, tested and refined in several countries, involves a set of steps to determine the method that best suits the client according to her preferences and reproductive health intentions.
- Elements of Success in Family Planning Programming [PDF, 1.52MB]
This report is based on a 2007 poll of nearly 500 health care professionals around the world who identified the top 10 elements most important to the success of family planning programs. The elements range from ensuring client-centered care to offering affordable services to implementing effective communication strategies.
- Visit the report's companion Web site, www.fpsuccess.org, to access a virtual community of family planning professionals around the world.
- The Systematic Screening Manual
This training manual from the Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health (FRONTIERS) Program provides guidance for program managers, supervisors, and providers who wish to integrate systematic screening into their health services. Systematic screening is a simple strategy to increase the number of services received at a single client visit.
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Comparing Effectiveness of Family Planning Methods
A panel of experts from USAID, the INFO Project JHU/CCP, EngenderHealth, and FHI drafted this chart, which presents contraceptive methods on a continuum of effectiveness to help clients make informed contraceptive choices.
- Key Reminders About Hormonal Family Planning Methods
A condensed version of the Family Planning Global Handbook for Providers, Key Reminders is configured as a simple sheet that can be hung on a wall or placed on a desk for the provider to refer to easily. The Key Reminders sheet covers five methods—combined oral contraceptives, monthly (combined) injectables, long-acting (progestin-only) injectables, implants, and progestin-only pills.
- Long-Acting and Permanent Methods (LAPMs): Addressing Unmet Need for Family Planning in Africa
Funded by USAID and produced by Family Health International, a new evidence-based advocacy package is available for program managers and policymakers. The package is a set of eight briefs on the LAPM class of modern contraceptive methods, which is comprised of four highly effective methods for delaying, spacing, or limiting births.
- Community-Based Family Planning (CBFP), Technical Update No. 5: Family Planning During The First Year Postpartum [PDF, 99KB]
Produced by the Flexible Fund Team at USAID and the Child Survival Technical Support+ Project (CSTS+), CBFP Technical Updates provide the latest tools and resources for family planning programming. This latest update describes the need to integrate postpartum family planning information and services into other maternal, newborn, and child health services for community-based programs.
- The Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM): A Postpartum Contraceptive Choice for Women Who Breastfeed [PDF, 238KB]
This brief is intended to guide health care providers in offering LAM services within maternal and child health, reproductive health or family planning programs. It describes what LAM is, the advantages of the method, and the criteria for use. Key elements of LAM services are addressed in the brief as are optimal breastfeeding behaviors.
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Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers - July 2007
This handbook offers clinic-based health care professionals in developing countries the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods. One of the WHO’s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance, the book has been prepared through a unique collaboration between USAID, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and over 30 organizations around the world.
- Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies (HTSP)
The health benefits of a minimum of two years between a mother’s last birth and her next pregnancy are well documented. The USAID-funded Extending Service Delivery (ESD) project has compiled numerous resources and tools to help family planning and reproductive health advocates integrate this message into their current programs.
- The INFO Project - Johns Hopkins University
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Pop Reporter [Spanish Version]
Each week, INFO Project research staff prepare an electronic magazine with links to news stories, reports, and related developments around the globe related to reproductive health and family planning.
- Wall Chart: Do you know your family planning choices?
[Available in English, French, and Spanish]
The chart offers a brief overview of 11 contraceptive methods and was prepared through a unique collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, technical experts from USAID, and other organizations around the world. Order instructions: After registering and logging into the INFO Project Web site, click on the ORDERS link again and then on the link called GLOBAL HANDBOOK. The wall chart is the first item listed (order code W-HAND).
- IUD Toolkit [French Version, Spanish Version]
The IUD Toolkit was compiled by members of the IUD Subcommittee of USAID's Maximizing Access and Quality Initiative. Policy makers, program managers, providers, and others interested in adding or improving existing IUD services in their family planning programs can visit http://www.iudtoolkit.org to access free and downloadable full-text resources on the IUD. Many resources are available in French or Spanish.
- Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) Monthly E-Newsletter
- Family Health International (FHI) Youth InfoNet
Youth InfoNet is a one-stop electronic source for new publications and information on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention, presented as program resources and research articles.
- Population Reference Bureau (PRB) WebUpdate
Sign up to receive PRB Web site updates related to population, health, and the environment. Each update contains a headline, short description of the item, and link.
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