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An Integrated Approach to Livelihoods and Family Planning
Climate change will disproportionately affect the poor in the future, nowhere more so than in the fragile ecological zone known as the Sahel. The Sahel has been plagued with droughts, decreasing crop yields, and increasing environmental degradation (World Bank, 2013). This paper will empirically demonstrate that an integrated intervention, coupling access to family planning (FP) [...]
Read More Download PDFEstablishing a Referral System for Safe and Legal Abortion Care: A Pilot Project on the Thailand-Burma Border
Foster A, Arnott G, Hobstetter M, Maung C, Sietstra C, Walsh M
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2016
Volume 42, Issue 3
September 2016
Pages 151 – 156
Women from Burma living in Thailand are generally unable to access safe abortion care—even for cases that clearly fall within the legal exceptions—because of a lack of knowledge of the Thai medical and legal systems, restrictions on travel and movement, [...]
Cost of providing injectable contraceptives through a community-based social marketing program in Tigray, Ethiopia
Prata N, Downing J, Bell S, Weidert K, Godefy H, Gessessew A
Objective
To provide a cost analysis of an injectable contraceptive program combining community-based distribution and social marketing in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Methods
We conducted a cost analysis, modeling the costs and programmatic outcomes of the program’s initial implementation in 3 districts of Tigray, Ethiopia. Costs were estimated from a review of program expense records, invoices, and [...]
Postpartum family planning: current evidence on successful interventions
Open Access Journal of Contraception, 2016
Abstract: We reviewed existing evidence of the efficacy of postpartum family planning interventions targeting women in the 12 months postpartum period in low- and middle-income countries. We searched for studies from January 1, 2004 to September 19, 2015, using the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations to assess evidence quality. Our search resulted in 26 [...]
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