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WHO Abortion Care Guidelines
This guideline is centred on the values and preferences of abortion seekers and considers them as active participants in as well as beneficiaries of health services. This guidance emphasizes that – as a woman, girl or other pregnant person moves through the abortion care pathway (pre-abortion, abortion, post-abortion) – health services must be integrated within the health sector to ensure that service delivery meets their needs equitably and without discrimination. As each individual moves through this pathway, the guideline provides specific recommendations on the interventions needed (i.e. the “what”), and guidance on the individuals who may safely carry them out (i.e. the “who”). The guideline also provides information on the locations where services can be provided (i.e. the “where”) and outlines service-delivery models that can be used (i.e. the “how”). The enabling environment provides the context for the effective implementation of these interventions.
Contraceptive Method Introduction to Expand Choice
This Strategic Planning Guide is intended to lead program managers, planners, national policymakers, and other stakeholders through a strategic process to coordinate the introduction of contraceptive methods through public and private access channels.
Seeing the Unseen
Half. That’s the share of all pregnancies that are unintended. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all. Women are more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy when they have fewer choices and less power.
South Sudan: Investment Cases Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning, Preventable Maternal Deaths, and Gender-based Violence
These country-level investment cases provide the Government of South Sudan with quantitative basis to assess the scale and scope of investments needed to prioritize proven, high-impact and cost-effective interventions required to accelerate progress towards achievement of the transformative results it has committed to with UNFPA and partners.
Synthesis report - South Sudan: Investment Cases Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning, Preventable Maternal Deaths, and Gender-Based Violence
These country-level investment cases present an opportunity for South Sudan to assess the scale and scope of investments needed to prioritize proven, high-impact and cost-effective interventions that are required to accelerate progress towards the achievement of the transformative results committed to by government and partners.
Namibia: Investment Cases Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence
The two investment cases developed for Namibia – (1) Ending unmet need for family planning and (2) Ending gender-based violence – are expected to inform strategic partnership efforts and mobilize additional domestic and external financing required to achieve the transformative results for the country.
Synthesis report - Namibia: Investment Cases Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning and Gender-Based Violence
This investment case provides the evidence required to achieve the transformative results of (a) ending unmet need for family planning and (b) ending gender-based violence (GBV) by 2030 in Namibia.
Botswana: Investment Case Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning
This study estimates the investment and the impact of scaling up coverage of modern contraceptive methods among married/in-union women aged 15-49 years in Botswana within a time frame of ten years (2020-2030). The goal is to reduce unmet need for family planning among women, from 17.3 per cent in 2020 to 8 per cent or less by 2030.
Synthesis report - Botswana: Investment Case Towards Ending Unmet Need for Family Planning
This investment case defines the scale and scope of investments needed to provide family planning services in the country. It also provides information on high impact and cost-effective interventions required to accelerate progress towards ending unmet need for family planning in Botswana by 2030.
Photo Essay on COVID-19 and the Continuation of Services across East and Southern Africa
When the COVID-19 Pandemic broke out, the first response priorities were to provide health workers with personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks, and diagnostic and therapeutic supplies, and to find new ways to reach and serve the population, especially young people. Read about the innovative ways the programme devised to deliver sexual and reproductive health services during a pandemic.