We are committed to helping countries provide the family planning and reproductive health services their communities need. And we know that health workers are one of the keys to making this happen.
From helping couples space or limit pregnancies to helping adolescents plan their futures, health workers have the power to provide a full range of services for clients at any stage of their reproductive lives. Right now, there are more than 218 million women worldwide who want to avoid pregnancy, but aren’t using effective methods of contraception to prevent it. Together, we we’re working to change that.
Key Results
1,181,826 new contraceptive users in 2020
204,480 unintended pregnancies averted due to contraceptives in 2020 (estimated)
234 maternal deaths avoided due to contraceptives in 2020 (estimated)
Our key approaches:
- Expanding the roles of health workers to deliver appropriate family planning services, supported by policy changes as necessary.
- Increasing the range of available family planning methods at all levels of the health system.
- Strengthening the planning, information, education, management, and supply-chain systems.
- Enabling health workers to integrate family planning with other services such as for immunization, postabortion care, obstetric fistula, and HIV.
- Improving the performance of health workers, organizations, and systems by applying IntraHealth’s Performance Improvement and Optimizing Performance and Quality tools.
- Developing innovative approaches to education and training, including eHealth and mHealth applications.
- Enhancing community-based distribution and referral systems between health workers at different levels of care, including promoting use of technology for improved communication.
- Expanding access for young people through policy reform, youth-friendly services, and empowering youth as advocates and ambassadors
- Engaging and educating communities and leaders through advocacy, public campaigns, social media, and open dialogues.
