Family Planning and Reproductive Health

Women—and adolescent girls—need access to high-quality reproductive health services, including family planning, in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies and better plan the number and spacing of their children. Some 200 million women in developing countries have an unmet need for effective and available family planning services. Meeting this need would prevent 23 million unplanned or unwanted pregnancies per year. Up to a quarter of maternal deaths—and more than a million infant deaths—would also be averted.*

Paying special attention to the needs of more vulnerable groups, including adolescents and women with HIV/AIDS, IntraHealth works to improve reproductive health for all women. Our key approaches include:

• Integrating family planning with other health care services, including prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
• Strengthening the performance of health workers to improve the quality and accessibility of services
• Developing innovative learning approaches and curricula to improve education and training in family planning and reproductive health
• Linking public and faith-based health facilities to increase access to modern methods of contraception
• Creating adolescent-friendly services.

Countries: Armenia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal

Leadership: Sara Stratton, Director of MNCH/FP Programs

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*Source: UNFPA