March 2021

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Burkina Faso, Content Partner, Contraceptive Methods, COVID-19, FP/RH, Guinea, Jhpiego, Mali, Policy and Advocacy, Self Care, Service Delivery, Togo, West Africa

Recap of a webinar on high-impact approaches to support the introduction and scale-up of the self-injectable contraceptive DMPA-SC in Francophone family planning programs in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, and Togo.

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Adolescents and Youth, Client-Centered Care, Content Partner, E2A, East and Central Africa, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Gender, Program Implementation, Service Delivery, Uganda

Evidence to Action (E2A) has been reaching young first-time parents Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and Nigeria in recent years for strengthening family planning and reproductive health service delivery for girls, women, and underserved communities.

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Contraceptive Methods, FP/RH, Ghana, Self Care, Service Delivery, West Africa

Providing women with containers for DMPA-subcutaneous (DMPA-SC) storage and sharps can help to encourage safe self-injection practices at home. Improper disposal in pit latrines or open spaces remains an implementation challenge to safely scaling this popular and highly effective method. With training from health providers and a provided puncture-proof container, self-injection clients enrolled in a pilot

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Adolescents and Youth, Content Partner, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, Next Gen RH, Policy and Advocacy, Population Reference Bureau, Service Delivery

Addressing obstacles to contraceptive continuation: The PACE project’s policy brief, Best Practices for Sustaining Youth Contraceptive Use, explores the unique patterns and drivers of contraceptive discontinuation among youth based on a new analysis of Demographic and Health Survey and Service Provision Assessment data. Key findings and recommendations include policy and program strategies to address obstacles to

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Adolescents and Youth, Content Partner, Equity and Empowerment, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Gender, Health Policy Plus, Knowledge Management, Measurement, Policy and Advocacy

Although there are more than 60 million additional users of modern contraception in the FP2020 focus countries as compared to 2012, our agenda remains unfinished, with quality family planning information and services not yet reaching many of those with the greatest need. To reach women, girls, and their partners equitably, we need to know who faces

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Content Partner, Contraceptive Methods, FP/RH, Jhpiego, Knowledge Management, Service Delivery

Program managers and healthcare providers who offer the one-rod contraceptive implant, Implanon NXT, should be aware of recent updates that affect the product’s administration. This change is in-process around the world, including countries where Implanon NXT is available at the reduced, market access, price.

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Content Partner, East and Central Africa, FP/RH, FP/RH Programs, Kenya, Living Goods, Service Delivery, Uganda

The Knowledge SUCCESS East African team engaged its partners at Living Goods East Africa (Kenya and Uganda) for an in-depth discussion on their community health strategy for implementing programs and how innovations are essential towards enhancing global development.

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Burkina Faso, Content Partner, Contraceptive Methods, COVID-19, FP/RH, Jhpiego, Mali, Self Care, Service Delivery, West Africa

Recapulatif du webinaire sur les approches à haut impact pour l’introduction et le passage à l’échelle de l'utilisation de la contraception auto-injectable.

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Asia, Contraceptive Supply & Security, COVID-19, FP/RH, Logistics, Service Delivery, The Philippines

In October 2020, staff at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) noticed a change in the search patterns bringing people to the Knowledge SUCCESS website. “What is the advocacy message of family planning” had moved up the charts, with a nearly 900% increase over the previous month. 99% of those queries originated in the

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