Family planning after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 has followed an unusual path. After a decade of pro-natal policies, in 1989 the government reversed itself and launched an ambitious program to control population growth. During the pro-natal phase the government invested heavily in a network of health clinics that focused on providing mother and child care, but not family planning. After the...

We examine the impact of recent state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher-income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. We show that the income-based policy change reduced overall births to non-teens by about 2% and to teens by over 4%; estimates suggest a decline of 9% among newly eligible women. The reduc...

Achieving contraceptive security requires coordination among the many elements of family planning programs, including funding, procurement, supply chain, and services. Underlying factors that contribute to the success and sustainability of these program efforts are an enabling policy environment, political commitment, and effective policies. A supportive policy environment includes not only the...

This article intends to analyze the discourse of male sterilization (vasectomy) in Rwanda’s family planning practice. It seeks understand public opinion towards vasectomy as a birth control tool Rwanda. The Family Planning Vision 2020 (FP2020) forum started 2012 and more than 150 political leaders met at London Summit on agreed give 120 million women world’s poorest countries access contracepti...

family planning is programming about future of reproductive reproduction. the main aim of this research was to compare the efficacy of family planning education by individual education in residential place and by health system education. in this quazi-experimental study, 120 married women who did not use any contraceptive for purpose of family planning, don’t have intend to be pregnant, were ra...

P olicymakers have long been aware that public investments in family planning services are cost effective. Indeed, this fact helped establish the federal program. In her book Within Our Reach, Lisbeth Schorr described the first federal investment in family planning under the War on Poverty launched by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965. He demanded programs that were “demonstrably cost-effective,...

Background Providers of family planning services deserve much credit for the development of the current concept of sexual and reproductive health. With their early recognition that family planning is the centrepiece of matters pertaining to reproduction and sexuality, the term ‘sexual medicine’ was appended whenever family planning was mentioned in the objectives of the National Association of ...

Editorial Despite known benefits of modern contraception and family planning, especially in protecting the health of women and asserting their reproductive rights, more than 225 million women around the globe have an unmet need for wanting to avoid an unintended pregnancy [1]. Family planning could prevent up to 30 % of the more than 287,000 maternal deaths that take place globally every year [...