Education as a means to improve family planning: Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Education has been a critical driver for behavior change towards recommended health practices including family planning (FP). This brief highlights the value of education and role of educational institutions in generating appropriate knowledge about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and improving FP outcomes. Promoting discussions on SRH in schools, building teachers’ skills and including FP components in school-based health programs can help to further improve FP outcomes.

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IPC Tool Kit 

ASHAs play a very important role in counselling couples on family planning. This Interpersonal Communication (IPC) tool kit acts as a facilitator’s guide to enhance the skills of ASHAs for effective counselling of couple on importance of family planning and methods of contraception. 

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Skills Training for Paediatric Care 

Skills Training for Pediatric Care has been prepared by experts from the field of Paediatrics and Covid Care to standardize the treatment protocols across all facilities in Uttar Pradesh to ensure optimum and quality standard of care.

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Post-partum and post-abortion family planning use among women in Uttar Pradesh

Post-partum family planning (PPFP) has emerged as key focus areas to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal for Universal Health Coverage in family planning in India. Majority of women have an unmet need for family planning in post-partum period. This brief explores the PPFP and post-abortion family planning uptake in Uttar Pradesh, and highlights the need to increase PPFP counselling at facilities and during home based newborn care and immunization visits.

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Preventing adolescent motherhood in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: Evidence for policy and programming

Adolescent motherhood has serious implications on young women and their children’s health. This brief examines the key determinants of adolescent motherhood in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to guide the sexual and reproductive health programming for youth. Increasing awareness on sexual and reproductive health, developing life skills, and creating positive gender norms can help strengthening sexual […]

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