a bstrac t   background: organizational and structural obstacles are a group of major obstacles in achievement of appropriate family planning counseling. detection of these obstacles from the viewpoint of managers, staffs and clients who are key members in health services providing system is a major step toward appropriate planning to modify or delete this group of obstacles. the present study ...

literatures that focus on the risk factors of unintended pregnancy among married women are limited especially in developing countries. the aim of this study was to determine the predictors of unintended pregnancy in a west region of iran.this case-control study was conducted from september to november 2011 in hamadan city, western iran. a stratified cluster random sampling method was used for d...

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(2) Clinical scenario A busy family planning clinic (FPC) finally draws to a close, during which you demonstrated the insertion of several intrauterine devices (IUDs) to a general practitioner (GP) registrar and also supervised him inserting an IUD for the first time. Over coffee at the end of the session he tells you that his GP t...

BACKGROUND Voluntary contraceptive use by HIV-positive women currently prevents more HIV-positive births, at a lower cost, than anti-retroviral drug (ARV) regimens. Despite this evidence, most prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs focus solely on providing ARV prophylaxis to pregnant women and rarely include the prevention of unintended pregnancies among HIV-positive women...

1. Improvement in the standard of living and health status of the population has remained one of the important objectives in Indian planning. All five year plans had reflected long term vision consistent with the international aspirations of which India has also been a signatory. These long term goals have been stressed in National Population Policy, National Health Policy, National Nutrition P...

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The global reproductive rights movement arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a challenge to the population control paradigm that has dominated family planning policy for almost half a century. The essence of the challenge is to place women into the center of population discussions as subjects, not objects of policy, and to reorient family planning and health programs toward meeting the br...