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Driving Toward Dramatic PPFP Uptake: Pathfinder International’s Uganda Family Planning Activity

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Postpartum family planning (PPFP) is an evidence-based program intervention essential for ensuring the health and well-being of mothers and their babies. In Uganda, each year approximately 15% of women of reproductive age have recently given birth and 12% are postpartum but not using a modern method of contraception. This presents a huge opportunity to invest in PPFP, especially in areas where a large proportion of women of reproductive age are postpartum but not using modern contraception.

Put women in charge

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If you are a woman in a remote village in Bilaspur, in the largely rural state of Chhattisgarh, chances are you are far removed from a world full of modern options in contraception that allow you to space out babies. You are also taught early in life not to say no and to accept the decisions taken on your behalf — even if they are about your own health.

Population slowdown is triumph of India’s people

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When the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the findings of the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS), documenting government data on health and family welfare issues, there were a flurry of chest-thumping declarations. Many in the media reported that India’s population had “stabilised” and some even claimed that it had begun “declining”.