MCSP has made remarkable progress expanding postpartum family planning interventions in Rwanda. […]
Workshop Highlights Rapid Scale up of Immediate Postpartum Family Planning Services in Rwanda
Writer: Reproductive Health
Using Data to Drive our Work in Haiti
My journey into the world of data proved to be a bumpy – but ultimately satisfying – one. […]
Leveraging Antenatal Care to Increase Uptake of Postpartum Family Planning: A Key Time for Counseling
Prevention of unwanted and closely spaced pregnancies substantially reduces maternal, infant, and child mortality. Postpartum family planning (PPFP) plays an important role in strategies to prevent these pregnancies in the first year after childbirth. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the integration of family planning (FP) as an essential component of antenatal care (ANC) and […]
Reaching Young Women and First-Time Moms with Friendly, Lifesaving Services in Madagascar
MCSP is reaching young and first-time parents with family planning services in Madagascar, which has one of the world’s highest rates of maternal deaths. […]
MCSP Madagascar Technical Brief: Postpartum Family Planning
This technical brief describes MCSP’s postpartum family planning support in Madagascar. The project has supported the capacity-building of health facilities in 16 regions by upgrading health worker skills and staffing technical equipment, and discusses the positive results garnered from the work. The brief is also available in French. […]
Opting for POP
MCSP is providing technical support to the Government of India in five states — Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Maharashtra, and Telangana — to expand access to quality family planning services. […]
Formative Research to Identify Factors that Impact the Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services by First-Time/Young Parents in Two Regions of Madagascar
In Madagascar, MCSP is developing and testing an intervention to increase access to and use of essential antenatal care, maternal and newborn care, and family planning services that will create enabling environments and strengthen youth assets, so first-time parents and parents-to-be understand their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) choices and access services that are responsive […]
Factors impacting use of health services by first-time/young parents: A formative research toolkit
Despite the fact that 13 million births occur to adolescents each year and that early pregnancy increases the risk of adverse health outcomes for mothers and their children, most programs that engage adolescents do not aim to meet the needs of those who have already begun childbearing. First-time/young parents (FT/YPs) are an under-served population with […]
FP2020 Features MCSP Director in “Health Workers & Heroes”
Dr. Koki Agarwal discusses MCSP work in Bangladesh to reach every woman with family planning messages and services — even in conservative Sylhet city. […]
Monitoring Postpartum Family Planning: A challenge for routine information systems
The purpose of this brief is to share examples of how to capture the number of women who receive family planning before discharge after giving birth in a facility – one important element of postpartum family planning (PPFP). The brief includes examples from four countries. These approaches are used in facilities where the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival […]
