The Guide was written to help program managers create postpartum family planning (PPFP) messages to be used in family planning, maternal, newborn, child and other health programs. It includes eight key PPFP behaviors for postpartum women, their families and communities to prevent unplanned pregnancies during the first year after a birth.
Maximizing synergies between maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and family planning
This technical brief outlines the rationale for aligning maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and family planning interventions, summarizes evidence on the relationship between these two areas, and provides an overview of opportunities to identify linkages and better integrate counseling and services across multiple interventions.
Postpartum IUD Learning Resource Package
This Postpartum Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (PPIUD) course aims to save lives by preparing a range of qualified service providers who can deliver high-quality PPIUD services as part of a comprehensive postpartum family planning program. Global PPIUD course materials are: Learner’s Handbook Trainer’s Guide Reference Manual These resources—available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish—can be downloaded here. (Second edition: July 2013)
Postpartum Family Planning Meeting Report: 14 Sept 2011
Drawing on the momentum from three previous technical meetings, the overall purpose of this meeting was to encourage the sharing of postpartum family planning programmatic strategies to advance the state-of-the-art and to capture lessons learned for programming.
Family Planning with Immunization Services: A Promising Approach to Improving Maternal and Child Health
Both immunization and family planning save lives. Through family planning,couples can achieve healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies. At the same time, immunizations are one of the most effective and well utilized child-health promotion strategies globally. The recommended vaccination schedule for children allows for multiple health care contacts with infants and their mothers during the first year of life. Although …
Return to Sexual Activity and Modern Family Planning Use in the Extended Postpartum Period: An Analysis of Findings from Seventeen Countries
This paper examines the relationship of menses return, breastfeeding status, and postpartum duration on return to sexual activity and use of modern family planning among postpartum women. This paper presents results from a secondary data analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 17 countries. For postpartum women, the return of menses, breastfeeding status, and postpartum duration are significantly associated with …