Improving Family Planning Policies to Ensure Zambian Youth Can Choose Their Future

PRB partnered with Marie Stopes Zambia to create a suite of products aimed at convincing policymakers within Zambia’s Ministry of Health of the need to support young people’s access to contraceptives as outlined in Zambia’s FP2020 Commitment. A fact sheet supports the disaggregation of family planni…

PRB partnered with Mombasa-based Stretchers Youth Organization to develop an engaging visual presentation and series of WhatsApp videos that call on Mombasa County, Kenya, health and finance officials to improve the budgets for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH). Specificall…

PRB partnered with SERAC-Bangladesh to develop products calling on decisionmakers to ensure the right of both married and unmarried adolescents to access comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services.

More than one-quarter of married women in Uganda would like to delay or prevent pregnancy but are not using family planning. New research also shows a persistent gap in contraceptive commodity availability, especially in public health facilities. In 2017, the Government of Uganda recommitted to allo…

Contraceptive use in Zanzibar continues to be low, particularly of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPM) of family planning. LAPM includes reversible methods like implants and intra-uterine contraceptive devices as well as permanent methods like vasectomy and tubal ligation. The percentage of wom…

As advocacy organizations reach out to a range of decisionmakers to achieve their family planning goals, they need diversified communication messages and tools to address their different audiences’ priorities. Evidence-Based Communication Products Tailored to Your Needs PRB teams with family plannin…

When the Family Planning Advocacy Resource Hub teams with family planning advocacy partners in Africa and Asia, the resulting products help drive partner organizations’ success and meet advocacy objectives. With the support of a Resource Hub fact sheet and video on the need for increased family plan…

Because of the many barriers that women in Nigeria face when it comes to accessing family planning, nearly one in five currently married women ages 15 to 49 who want to delay or space their pregnancies are not using a contraceptive method. Injectables are among the most popular modern contraceptive …

Cameroonian youth need contraceptive services and products to protect their health. Currently, more than one in five young women ages 15 to 19 in Cameroon are already mothers, and 26 percent of births to mothers under age 20 occurred earlier than they preferred. Youth face many barriers in accessing…

PRB partnered with Faith to Action Network to create resources that urge East African Legislative Assembly members to harmonize existing reproductive health policies and support the future of the region’s youth.

Uganda’s Kalangala District has higher rates of HIV and teenage pregnancy than most of the country. Almost 50 percent of teenage girls in the district are mothers and 18 percent of adults have HIV—both rates are two to three times higher than the rest of Uganda. PRB partnered with the Kalangala NGO …

In 2016, family planning saved the lives of 43,000 mothers in India and prevented 38 million unintended pregnancies, yet one in five women in India who want to delay pregnancy are not using a contraceptive method. PRB partnered with Pathfinder International India to create a video and accompanying f…