Publications
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Current Publications
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- Health-Related Research and Development
Strategy 2011-2015
This report provides an overview of the Agency’s 2011-2015 strategy
on health-related research and development used to stimulate the development and introduction of key products.
- Advancing Family Planning in French-Speaking West Africa: A Call to Action
This report by the Population Reference Bureau presents targeted areas of investments in family planning to spur progress in the region, and provides recommendations for strengthening services, mobilizing political commitment and resources, and coordinating actions.
- Alliance for Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health Year Two Progress Report: Collective Action to Advance the Health – September 2012 [PDF, 2.4MB]
Alliance partners are working together to ensure the most effective and efficient use of existing resources to avert unintended pregnancies and reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. This approach is producing results. In the Alliance's second year, collaboration has helped strengthen programs and policies at the country level and created cost savings and efficiencies across the globe.
- Three Successful Sub-Saharan Africa Family Planning Programs: Lessons for Meeting the MDGs – September 2012
Ethiopia, Malawi, and Rwanda have achieved a much more rapid increase in contraceptive prevalence rates (CPR) than any other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Demographic and Health Surveys. How did these three countries make such great strides in recent years? This report compiles the data showing the country's successes, includes case studies on each of the countries, and synthesizes the material into five lessons learned.
- Fiscal Year 2011 Overview of Contraceptives and Condom Shipments – August 2012
This annual publication provides details on both the quantities and the values of USAID contraceptive and condom distribution activities in FY 2011. It presents these data by USAID region and country, affiliations of recipient organizations, and trends.
- Effects of Birth Spacing on Maternal, Perinatal, Infant, and Child Health: A Systematic Review of Causal Mechanisms – June 2012 [PDF, 2.4MB]
A systematic review of 58 observational studies identified hypothetical causal mechanisms explaining the effects of short and long intervals between pregnancies on maternal, perinatal, infant, and child health, and a critical examination of the scientific evidence for hypothesized causal mechanisms.
- Global Postabortion Care Desk Review – March 2012 [PDF, 2.8MB]
In 2011, a desk review was completed to assess the level of achievement in implementing the five-year PAC Strategy and to make recommendations about areas requiring future investment.
- Global Health and Child Survival: Progress Report to Congress 2010-2011
In the last 20 years, the world has saved more than 50 million children's lives and reduced maternal mortality by one-third. This report details those successes for the time frame of 2010-2011.
- Teenage Pregnancy in Kavango Region – November 2011 [PDF, 4.7MB]
This study, operating in Kavango, northern Namibia, seeks to identify
the root causes of high teenage
pregnancy rates. It distinguishes between wanted and
unwanted fertility and also distinguishes between
proximate behaviors (sexual activity
and contraceptive use) and root causes. Its results will ultimately
guide the design of future interventions.
- High Impact Interventions in Family Planning – November 2011 [PDF, 169KB]
This document reflects results of a technical consultation held to identify high impact practices in family planning.
- USAID's Public Health Procurement Guide and Product Catalog 2011 [PDF, 3MB]
This annual publication consists of current contraceptive and condom ordering procedures for Missions and a catalog of condoms and contraceptives provided by USAID. It includes USAID contraceptive ordering procedures and guidance on how to use logistics data and forecasts to calculate contraceptive requirements.
- Family Planning Fast Facts – October 2011 [PDF, 504KB]
Learn the basics about USAID's work with Family Planning.
- The Importance of Voluntary Family Planning and Its Provision by Our Members – May 2011 [PDF, 752KB]
This consensus statement by FIGO, ICM, and the ICN argues that to improve maternal health (MDG5), committed member nations should strengthen the role of skilled health-care providers, including midwives and nurses, through their training and retention in order to fully utilize their potential as trusted providers of maternal health-care services, as well as expand family planning within local communities.
- Family Planning: A Key Component of Postabortion Care – September 2009 [PDF, 153KB]
This consensus statement by FIGO, ICM, ICN, and USAID argues that all women should receive family planning counseling and services after spontaneous or induced abortion, irrespective of the procedure used to treat complications of hemorrhage and/or sepsis. The document stresses the importance of postabortion family planning in meeting the unmet need for family planning, often an underlying cause for induced abortion. Also available in the following translations:
- USAID Global Health: Improving Global Health Improves the World
For 50 years, USAID has worked to improve health globally and supported interventions in poor countries around the world to help prevent illness, provide treatment, improve family planning, and strengthen health systems. Read more on how USAID is helping people live longer, healthier, more productive lives.
- Postpartum Care Survey Results from Sub-Saharan Africa – December 2008 [PDF, 331KB]
This report assembles survey results conducted between March and June of 2008 to identify, document, and share information on the status of postpartum care services implemented through USAID and our partners. The survey results indicate a number of opportunities to integrate postpartum family planning with many programs.
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Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Health Information Products and Services – November 2007 [PDF, 743KB]
Funded by USAID and published by the Health Information and Publications Network (HIPNET), the guide presents 29 indicators that are grouped into four categories measuring reach, usefulness, use, and collaboration/capacity building. It brings together monitoring and evaluating information products and services from dozens of health organizations that are members of the HIPNET community of practice.
- Request a print copy from orders@jhuccp.org and make sure to include your mailing address
- Options for Contraceptive Procurement: Lessons Learned From Latin America and the Caribbean – October 2006 [PDF, 1.3MB]
This study assesses the impact of different procurement regulations on the price of contraceptives in the Latin America and Caribbean region to identify viable strategies for countries to adopt in ensuring sustainable access to lower priced, quality contraceptives in sufficient quantities.
- Decentralizing and Integrating Contraceptive Logistics Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean – October 2006 [PDF, 513KB]
This paper synthesizes key considerations that policymakers, family planning managers, and logistics advisers can take into account when implementing decentralization and/or integration reforms of certain or all logistics systems functions, which will help sustain an efficient and continuous supply of contraceptives.
- Addressing Gender-Based Violence Through USAID's Health Programs: A Guide for Health Sector Program Officers – July 2006 [PDF, 1MB]
The Guide provides USAID Program Officers with specific recommendations to integrate GBV initiatives into their health sector portfolios. These guidelines are meant to complement a USAID-commissioned in-depth literature review that summarizes promising interventions from the field.
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- Diagnóstico de la Disponiblidad Asegurada de Insumos Anticonceptivos en Guatemala – April 2006 [PDF, 3.8MB]
This publication, available only in Spanish, utilizes literature, policies, data on family planning use, and interviews with public and private sector officials to examine contraceptive security in Guatemala. It is part of a broader initiative to document the successes and challenges of Latin American and Caribbean countries working to ensure reliable sources of supply and delivery of contraceptives as donor support is phased out.
- CD-ROMs Available on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
- Changing a Harmful Social Convention: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting [PDF, 703KB]
The United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) Innocenti Digest examines the prevalence of FGM/C and its social dynamics. Hard copies can be ordered free in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish from the UNICEF Web site.
- Strategy for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FY 2004 – FY 2006) [PDF, 434KB]
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is the name given to traditional practices that involve the partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia and/or other injury to the female genitals, whether for cultural or nontherapeutic reasons. Under no circumstances does USAID support the practice of FGM/C by medical personnel.
- Family Planning/HIV Integration:
Technical Guidance for USAID-Supported Field Programs 2003 [PDF, 253KB]
This document includes technical insights regarding family planning/HIV integration and should be used in conjunction with USAID's Guidance on the Definition and Use of the Child Survival and Health Programs Fund [PDF, 1.2MB] for information regarding appropriate use of USAID funds.
- Get the Facts! People and the Environment – Not an Either/Or Proposition
USAID's programs in family planning and the environment show how common sense coupled with logical programming can protect and improve conditions for both people and the earth.
- Birth
Spacing: Research Update
[MS Word, 175KB]
Outline of birth spacing's
impact on infant and maternal mortality and nutritional
status.
- Gender-Based
Violence and Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS:
Summary of a Technical Update [PDF, 210KB]
On May 1, 2002, more than
130 program managers, policymakers, service providers,
and trainers attended a day-long Technical Update
on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Reproductive
Health/HIV (RH/HIV).
- Birth
Spacing: A Call to Action
[PDF, 172KB]
Research on birth intervals
has revealed that at least three years between births
improves infant, child, and maternal health.
- Global
Evaluation of USAID's Postabortion Care Program [PDF,
1.4MB]
This report is the result
of a global evaluation of postabortion care and
includes case studies of Bolivia, Ghana, Kenya,
and Nepal.
USAID-Funded
Publications
Additional
Publications
For more information on family planning,
please contact USAID at ebayer@usaid.gov.
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