Fertility awareness-based methods can be very helpful in detecting underlying issues like endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome, enabling women to seek treatment rather than merely masking ...

With the challenges faced by the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the disruption of vital health services, family planning service providers have found a new way of encouraging uptake and ...

World Family Planning 2020 Highlights presents regional and global estimates of the contraceptive use and needs for women of reproductive age (15-49 years) between 1990 and 2020 with projections until ...

DKT Ghana has launched Femject, a new three-month injectable contraceptive, aimed at expanding access to affordable family planning options and strengthening reproductive health services across the ...

Ethiopia has over 77 million inhabitants, and is considered one of the poorer countries in Africa. But this year, it’s playing host to the annual International Family Planning Conference in its ...

Ololade Abatan, Family Planning Coordinator, Osun Ministry of Health, says more women are taking up family planning methods in the state. Abatan said that due to the present economic situation in the ...

Dodoma. The Government is in the final stages of including family planning services under the universal health insurance ...

It is no secret: Natural family planning has its discontents. A number of studies have shown that few Catholics use it, and it is not hard to see why. N.F.P. can be difficult, it can be frustrating, ...

Despite decades of progress, access to family planning in hard-to-reach and underserved areas of Kenya remains a significant challenge. Many women in arid and semi-arid regions, as well as those in ...

At 29, Linnet Charo is already a mother of seven. Her last born is only eight months and Ms Charo is two months pregnant. Charo says her husband is against family planning, hence it is not something ...

More women in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, are now using different family planning methods while managing their families’ health and social and economic wellbeing. A survey of some primary ...

Seasoned reproductive health experts have debunked claims that family planning promotes promiscuity, describing such notions as unfounded myths that contribute to the nation’s high maternal mortality ...