Document Type
Commentary
Department
Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health; Obstetrics and Gynaecology (East Africa)
Abstract
Since 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been receiving an increasing number of requests from country programs for strategies to create or strengthen voluntary family planning programs for women in the first year after childbirth. During this extended postpartum period, 95% of women in low- and middle-income countries want to avoid a pregnancy within the next 2 years, but 70% are not using contraception.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Global Health: Science and Practice
Recommended Citation
Gaffield, M. E.,
Egan, S.,
Temmerman, M.
(2014). It's about time: WHO and partners release programming strategies for postpartum family planning. Global Health: Science and Practice, 2(1), 4-9.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_obstet_gynaecol/491
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Comments
This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.