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Ce webinaire a exploré des moyens pratiques d'intégrer l'engagement des hommes dans les programmes de changement social et de comportement en vue de contribuer à la transformation des normes du genre et à l'adoption des services de santé reproductive, maternelle, néonatale, et infantile.

Knowledge SUCCESS last week announced four winners from a field of 80 contestants in "The Pitch," a global competition to find and fund creative knowledge management ideas for family planning.

The Ouagadougou Partnership’s Youth Think Tank advocates for youth inclusion in family planning policy and works to ensure that adolescents and young people have access to reproductive health information and care. Knowledge SUCCESS recently spoke with Oury Kamissoko, Youth Lead from Mali and head of the Youth Think Tank’s dissemination subcommittee, about young people’s access to

Le Think-tank Jeunes du Partenariat de Ouagadougou plaide en faveur de politiques et œuvre pour que les adolescents et les jeunes aient accès aux informations et aux soins de santé reproductive. Knowledge SUCCESS s'est récemment entretenu avec Oury Kamissoko, responsable des jeunes du Mali et chef du sous-comité de diffusion du Think-tank Jeunes, sur l'accès des

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.

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

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.

Queen Esther is proud to lead this small peer group, part of a core package of activities for young first-time parents (FTPs) developed by the Evidence to Action (E2A) Project. E2A’s comprehensive first-time parent program model, implemented with dedicated country partners and funding from USAID, is effectively improving health and gender outcomes for this critical population

Social and behavior change (SBC) approaches can increase the use of modern contraceptives by addressing the attitudes and social norms that influence demand. However, they often do not receive attention, partly because many practitioners are not effectively measuring their SBC efforts. Breakthrough ACTION interviewed voluntary family planning stakeholders in West Africa to learn why.