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Afghanistan

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Achieving success with family planning in rural Afghanistan [2010]

• Nagoya Journal of Medical Science
  • Factors influencing contraceptive use among women in Afghanistan: secondary analysis of Afghanistan Health Survey 2012 [2016]

Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Factors Determining Quality of Care in Family Planning Services in Africa: A Systematic Review of Mixed Evidence [2016]

• WHO Regional Office for Africa
  • A Guide to Identifying and Documenting Best Practices in Family Planning Programmes [2017]

Brazil

• Revista de Saúde Pública
  • Use of and access to oral and injectable contraceptives in Brazil [2016]

Cambodia

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Cambodia: identifying actions for scaling up long-acting reversible contraceptives [2017]

Canada

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 2 Contraceptive Care and Access [2015]
  • Canadian Contraception Consensus Chapter 1 Contraception in Canada [2015]

Democratic Republic of Congo

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Availability and Quality of Family Planning Services in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: High Potential for Improvement [2017]
  • Family Planning Policy Environment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Levers of Positive Change and Prospects for Sustainability [2015]

Developing countries

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Climate change and family planning: least-developed countries define the agenda [2009]

• World Health Organization
  • Accelerating uptake of voluntary, rights-based family planning in developing countries [2017]

Eastern Europe, Eurasia

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Family Planning in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: A Legacy of Change [2013]

Eastern Mediterranean

• WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Summary report on the training workshop on strengthening family planning services through evidence-based guidelines and best practices, Tunis, Tunisia 13–16 November 2016 [2016]

Egypt

• World Health Organization
  • Impact of provider incentive payments on reproductive health services in Egypt : policy brief [2009]

Ethiopia

• International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Paving the way for universal family planning coverage in Ethiopia: an analysis of wealth related inequality [2015]

• Ministry of Health Ethiopia
  • National Guideline for Family Planning Services in Ethiopia [2011]

• PLoS ONE
  • Client and facility level determinants of quality of care in family planning services in Ethiopia: Multilevel modelling [2017]
  • Trends of Modern Contraceptive Use among Young Married Women Based on the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys: A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis [2015]

India

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • Priority strategies for India's family planning programme [2014]

• Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
  • Family Planning Practices, Programmes and Policies in India Including Implants and Injectables with a Special Focus on Jharkhand, India: A Brief Review [2015]

• Lancet Global Health
  • Levels and trends in contraceptive prevalence, unmet need, and demand for family planning for 29 states and union territories in India: a modelling study using the Family Planning Estimation Tool [2017]

• Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India
  • Family Planning Logistics Management Information System (FP-LMIS): Training Manual and User Guide [2017]

International

• FANTA (Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project)
  • Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition [2015]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • “New Users” Are Confusing Our Counting: Reaching Consensus on How to Measure “Additional Users” of Family Planning [2017]

• Reproductive Health
  • Participatory approaches involving community and healthcare providers in family planning/contraceptive information and service provision: a scoping review [2016]

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Refocusing Family Planning in Refugee Settings: Findings and Recommendations from a multi-Country Baseline Study [2011]

• United Nations Population Fund
  • Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Package for Men and Adolescent Boys [2017]

Iran

• Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research
  • The impact of an educational program based on BASNEF model on the selection of a contraceptive method in women [2015]

Kenya

• Contraception
  • Provider barriers to family planning access in urban Kenya [2015]

• Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
  • Evaluating the impact of social franchising on family planning use in Kenya [2016]

• PLoS ONE
  • Community Dialogue to Shift Social Norms and Enable Family Planning: An Evaluation of the Family Planning Results Initiative in Kenya [2016]

Low and middle-income countries

• BMC Public Health
  • Community based reproductive health interventions for young married couples in resource-constrained settings: a systematic review [2015]

• BMC Women's Health
  • A scoping review on determinants of unmet need for family planning among women of reproductive age in low and middle income countries [2016]

• BMJ Open
  • Incidence of unintended pregnancy among female sex workers in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
  • Contraception supply chain challenges: a review of evidence from low- and middle-income countries [2017]

• PLoS ONE
  • Economic Evaluation of Family Planning Interventions in Low and Middle Income Countries; A Systematic Review [2016]

• Reproductive Health
  • Demand for family planning satisfied with modern methods among sexually active women in low- and middle-income countries: who is lagging behind? [2018]
  • Optimizing the delivery of contraceptives in low- and middle-income countries through task shifting: a systematic review of effectiveness and safety [2015]
  • Behaviour change techniques and contraceptive use in low and middle income countries: a review [2015]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Effectiveness of demand generation interventions on use of modern contraceptives in low- and middle-income countries [2016]

Malawi

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Using patient-held records to evaluate contraceptive use in Malawi [2015]

Mexico

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Comparison of family-planning service quality reported by adolescents and young adult women in Mexico [2016]

Nigeria

• Federal Ministry of Health
  • National Family Planning Communication Plan [2017]
  • Nigeria Family Planning Blueprint (Scale Up Plan) [2014]

Pakistan

• PLoS ONE
  • Socio-Economic Disparities in Use of Family Planning Methods among Pakistani Women: Findings from Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys [2016]

• Reproductive Health
  • Engaging with community-based public and private mid-level providers for promoting the use of modern contraceptive methods in rural Pakistan: results from two innovative birth spacing interventions [2016]
  • National program for family planning and primary health care Pakistan: a SWOT analysis [2013]

Papua New Guinea

• WHO Western Pacific Region
  • Papua New Guinea : actions for scaling up long-acting reversible contraception [2017]

Philippines

• World Health Organization
  • Performance-based grants for reproductive health in the Philippines: policy brief [2011]

Rwanda

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Systems approach to monitoring and evaluation guides scale up of the Standard Days Method of family planning in Rwanda [2014]

Senegal

• Contraception
  • The Senegal urban reproductive health initiative: a longitudinal program impact evaluation [2018]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Strengthening Government Leadership in Family Planning Programming in Senegal: From Proof of Concept to Proof of Implementation in 2 Districts [2016]
  • Mentoring, Task Sharing, and Community Outreach Through the TutoratPlus Approach: Increasing Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives in Senegal [2016]

• Scientific Reports
  • Examining trends in family planning among harder-to-reach women in Senegal 1992–2014 [2017]

South Africa

• Department of Health South Africa
  • National Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy and Service Delivery Guidelines [2012]

South-East Asia

• WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
  • Regional Meeting to Strengthen Capacity in the new WHO family planning guidelines: Towards universal reproductive health coverage in SDGs era [2017]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Family planning in sub-Saharan Africa: progress or stagnation? [2011]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Assessment of Family Planning Service Availability and Readiness in 10 African Countries [2018]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Who Meets the Contraceptive Needs of Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa? [2017]

• Reproductive Health
  • Design and initial implementation of the WHO FP umbrella project- to strengthen contraceptive services in the sub Saharan Africa [2017]

Tanzania

• Reproductive Health
  • Client satisfaction with family planning services in the area of high unmet need: evidence from Tanzania Service Provision Assessment Survey, 2014-2015 [2018]

Tanzania, Uganda

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Adaptation of the Training Resource Package to Strengthen Preservice Family Planning Training for Nurses and Midwives in Tanzania and Uganda [2018]

Uganda

• African Population Studies
  • Modern contraceptive use among women in Uganda: An analysis of trend and patterns (1995-2011) [2014]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Partnerships for Policy Development: A Case Study From Uganda’s Costed Implementation Plan for Family Planning [2016]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Contraception and Unintended Pregnancy in Uganda [2017]

United Kingdom

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Contraceptive services for under 25s [2014]
  • Contraceptive services: general and other

• NHS Digital
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

• Public Health England
  • Contraceptive services: estimating the return on investment

United States of America

• American Journal of Public Health
  • Projecting the Unmet Need and Costs for Contraception Services After the Affordable Care Act [2016]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services — Recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2017 [2017]
  • Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs [2014]

• Family Medicine
  • Trends in Contraceptive and Preconception Care in United States Ambulatory Practices [2015]

• JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
  • Decreasing Unintended Pregnancy: Opportunities Created by the Affordable Care Act [2016]

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Population Affairs
  • Program Guidelines
  • Family Planning Annual Report
  • Clinical Guidelines

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Task sharing to improve access to Family Planning/Contraception [2017]
  • Quality of care in contraceptive information and services, based on human rights standards [2017]
  • Partnering with the private sector to strengthen provision of contraception [2017]
  • Monitoring human rights in contraceptive services and programmes [2017]
  • Improving family planning service delivery in humanitarian crises [2017]
  • Ensuring contraceptive security through effective supply chains [2017]
  • Ensuring adequate financing of family planning commodities and services [2017]
  • A guide to identifying and documenting best practices in family planning programmes [2017]
  • Ensuring human rights within contraceptive service delivery [2015]
  • Framework for ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information [2014]
  • Ensuring human rights within contraceptive programmes [2014]
  • Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services [2014]
  • Task shifting to improve access to contraceptive methods [2013]
  • A guide to family planning for community health workers and their clients [2012]
  • Universal access to reproductive health: Accelerated actions to enhance progress on Millennium through advancing Target 5B [2011]
  • Scaling up health service delivery: from pilot innovations to policies and programmes [2007]
  • Financing sexual and reproductive health-care services [2006]
  • Decision-making tool for family planning clients & providers [2005]
  • Family planning needs satisfied - Data by country

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