Background: Male involvement in family planning (FP) is most often associated with better health outcomes for the family. This study assessed male FP at Fadan Kamantan, a rural community Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, North Western Nigeria.
 Methods: was community-based descriptive cross-sectional conducted among 166 married men selected using multi-staged sampling tech...

OBJECTIVES To (i) describe the contraceptive practices of HIV care and treatment (HCTx) clients in Manzini, Swaziland, including their unmet needs for family planning (FP), and compare these with population-level estimates; and (ii) qualitatively explore the causal factors influencing contraceptive choice and use. METHODS Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods were used. A cross-sectional...

BACKGROUND Addressing the postnatal needs of new mothers is a neglected area of care throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The study compares the effectiveness of integrating HIV and family planning (FP) services into postnatal care (PNC) with stand-alone services on postpartum women's use of HIV counseling and testing and FP services in public health facilities in Kenya. METHODS Data were derived f...

CONTEXT The Matlab Maternal Child Health-Family Planning (MCH-FP) project provides maternity care as part of its reproductive health services. It is important to assess whether this project has reduced maternal mortality and, if so, whether this was due to differences between the MCH-FP area (which received project services) and the comparison area (which did not) in pregnancy rates, pregnancy ...

A US Republican Senator argued that the US must refuse to subsidize foreign family planning (FP) organizations that use their own funds for abortion-related activities because to support them would indirectly support abortion, since "money is fungible." The "Mexico City gag rule" advocated by Republicans would stop US-funded agencies from providing legal abortion or from engaging in a range of...

INTRODUCTION People living with HIV (PLHIV) have the right to exercise voluntary choices about their health, including their reproductive health. This commentary discusses the integral role that family planning (FP) plays in helping PLHIV, including those in serodiscordant relationships, achieve conception safely. The United States (US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is com...

background: short birth intervals have been associated with adverse health outcomes, including infant, child and maternal mortality. objective:  we aimed to investigate the duration and determinants of inter birth intervals among women of reproductive age in yazd, iran. materials and methods:  a cluster sampling technique was used to select 400 ever-married women aged 15-49 years in yazd, islam...

background: the fertility experience in iran suggests that the family planning programs had an effective role in the fertility reduction. this study aimed to specify patterns of marriage in iran and especially in a northern city of iran and to investigate the association between patterns of marriage and contraceptive use before first pregnancy and current contraceptive use. methods: in this cro...

background: oral contraceptive pills effectiveness is lower in actual use than in clinical trials. the views of a group of married iranian women were sought as a step toward improving the enhanced use of contraceptive pills. methods: two focus groups of current pill users (n=13) and two focus groups of women not currently taking the pills (n=14) were held. leaders trained facilitators; themes w...

the article by potts et al, “the pill is mightier than the sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...