Family planning
PUBLICATIONS
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Selected guidelines and tools
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Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
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Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use
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Family planning: a global handbook for providers
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Decision-making tool for family planning clients and providers
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Medical eligibility criteria wheel for contraceptive use
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Reproductive choices and family planning for people living with HIV
Latest publications
2012
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WHO/UNFPA female condom generic specification
Prequalification and guidelines for procurement, 2012 - Cutting-edge global research on family planning and improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health
- Causes and consequences of contraceptive discontinuation: evidence from 60 demographic and health surveys
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Expanding access to contraceptive services for adolescents
Policy brief - Preventing HIV and unintended pregnancies: strategic framework 2011-2015
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How to procure CycleBeads: a visual tool for the Standard Days Method
Advisory note -
Priority life-saving medicines for women and children 2012
Improving health and saving lives by ensuring access to priority medicines - A guide to family planning for community health workers and their clients
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Programmatic and research considerations for hormonal contraception for women at risk of HIV and women living with HIV
Policy Implications - Scientific and technical requirements to formulate a female condom generic specific specification and prequalification scheme
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Hormonal contraception and HIV
Technical statement
Policy brief series
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From evidence to policy: expanding access to family planning
A policy brief series published on the occasion of the Family Planning Summit in London, 2012.
Promoting family planning
Photoshare
A couple in India, receives family planning counselling.
It is estimated that over 200 million couples do not use contraceptives, despite wanting to space or limit their childbearing.
Video
Widening choice and access to family planning