Focus Areas
Working towards global reproductive choice; autonomy and empowerment; and gender equality.
Commitment Makers
Creating a future for women and girls with the freedom and ability to lead healthy lives.
Four Kenyan counties have, for the first time, established multi-agency government task forces with action plans to address their high teenage pregnancy rates. The action plans commit to leverage resources for, address policy barriers to, and enhance efficiency in providing contraceptive information and services for young people aged 10 to 19. As of June 2019, the action plans are officially approved, and implementation is underway.
PSI committed to reaching 10 million users under the age of 25 with modern contraception by 2020. As of Dec. 2018, they’ve reached 14 million young people, and counting, with a contraceptive method, two years ahead of schedule.
Two budding entrepreneurs at Tufts University were recently awarded $15,000 for their proposal to improve health for female Bangladeshi garment workers. The annual Tufts $100k New Ventures Competition gives faculty, students, alumni and staff the chance to win cash and temporary office spacefor a business idea they pitch. Earlier this month, the competition announced it would divvy up $150,000 in prizes among winners in three categories.
New data from the Guttmacher Institute show that sexual and reproductive health services in Kenya fall short of meeting adolescents’ needs.
New data from the Guttmacher Institute show serious gaps in sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent women in Uganda.
The contraceptives prevalence rate among married women of reproductive age has risen from 53 percent in 2014 to 61 percent last year, according to new data from the Ministry of Health. The rise has seen Kenya surpass its 2020 target of 58 percent.
We Are The Present – flash mob was organized by Public Health Ambassadors Uganda with support from Pathfinder International, Guttmacher Institute, Women Deliver and IYAFP during the International Conference on Family Planning in Kigali Rwanda.
Family Planning 2020's groundbreaking new report on family planning in the world’s 69 lowest-income countries released this month shows more women and adolescent girls than ever before are making the voluntary choice to use contraception in their everyday lives. More importantly, country governments are prioritizing family planning programs as an essential part of their development strategies. Below is a round-up of media attention the report has received around the globe.
Family Planning 2020's groundbreaking new report on family planning in the world’s 69 lowest-income countries released this month shows more women and adolescent girls than ever before are making the voluntary choice to use contraception in their everyday lives. More importantly, country governments are prioritizing family planning programs as an essential part of their development strategies. Below is a round-up of media attention the report has received throughout Europe and the United States.
Family Planning 2020's groundbreaking new report on family planning in the world’s 69 lowest-income countries released this month shows more women and adolescent girls than ever before are making the voluntary choice to use contraception in their everyday lives. More importantly, country governments are prioritizing family planning programs as an essential part of their development strategies. Below is a round-up of media attention the report has received throughout Asia.
