Postpartum women are among those with the greatest unmet need for family planning, yet they often do not receive the services they need to support longer birth intervals or reduce unintended pregnancies and their consequences. Analysis of data from 57 countries in 2005-2013 estimates 32 – 62% of postpartum women had an unmet need for family planning.
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Military Fertility: It’s Complicated
While all couples can struggle to balance careers and kids, family planning for women in the military can be more complicated because they’re frequently deployed during their most fertile years.
Title X: The Lynchpin Of Publicly Funded Family Planning In The United States
The Title X national family planning program was created 45 years ago with broad bipartisan support. Today, Congress has Title X—still the only federal grant program dedicated entirely to family planning and related preventive health care—in its sights for severe funding cuts or even elimination.
Planning for the Future: Technology Advances Fertility Options
Freezing eggs and embryos for infertility treatment and family planning has become more successful thanks to advances in technology. But the practice comes with many questions parents must consider.
Infertility, Miscarriages More Common Than Society Believes
Somewhere in your junior high school, you were likely compelled to learn about mental and sexual health, given material about family planning and informed about the biological process of conceiving a child. But typically, one aspect of sexual health was left out of the lesson plan – infertility.
Spermicides Out, Pills In: 8 Contraception Trends You Probably Didn’t Know
How many people go to family planning clinics, who are they and what forms of contraception do they leave with? New numbers show seismic shifts in people’s contraception choices.
Better Access to Contraceptives for Parents Means Better Outcomes for Children
What’s the long-term impact of access to birth control and family planning? The economist Martha J. Bailey pulled together decades of data and research on families surrounding two major policy changes in the United States: laws banning the sale of contraceptives and their repeal, and the expansion of federal funding for local family-planning clinics during the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
On World Contraception Day, Here Are Five Facts You Should Remember About Birth Control
Every year, a group of medical experts and non-governmental organizations join forces to highlight the importance of birth control and ultimately raise awareness about the need for robust family planning programs.
Today, Few Public Family Planning Centers Accept Insurance
Most women can expect to get contraceptives without paying out of pocket for them thanks to the federal Affordable Care Act. Women who are young or those who are poor and rely on publicly funded family planning centers for reproductive health services are covered, too.But there’s a catch.
Gates Foundation to Pledge Funds for Contraception
(Reuters) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to unveil funding a sum in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a campaign to improve access to contraception in the developing world.
The exact amount will be announced at a summit of world leaders and aid organizations in London on Wednesday, but in an interview with Reuters, Melinda Gates said the commitment would be “on a par” with the foundation’s other big programs, like that against malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis.
In January, the foundation pledged a further $750 million for that fight on top of $650 million contributed since the fund was set up 10 years ago.
The aim of the London Summit on Family Planning is to raise $4 billion to expand access to contraception for 120 million women in the developing world by 2020.
According to United Nations figures, about 220 million women in the developing world who do not want to get pregnant, cannot get reliable access to contraception.
“Because we didn’t have contraception or family planning on the agenda we weren’t putting new money into it,” says Gates. “We weren’t saying this is a priority. So this is our moment in time to say this is a priority and we need to fund it.”