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One of the most cost-effective public health interventions is family planning, which can significantly improve the health of women and their families. Family planning enables women and couples to determine the timing and spacing of their children and gives mothers and newborns an opportunity to stay healthy.

Learn more below and visit the program page for more details about our work in this area.

To Empower Women, Don’t Forget the Men

This is no ordinary school, and its lessons will not soon be forgotten. The men of Binkolo village are attending “husband school,” a project of the Fambul Initiative Network for Equality (FINE). They are learning new ways to relate to their wives and daughters, which could have far-reaching benefits for their families—and for the people of Sierra Leone.

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Family Health "Check Up": Looking Forward

This year’s strategy review process provided an opportunity to look back and reflect on successes and failures in an effort to improve our performance and increase our impact in Family Health. As a result, our outlook includes two cross-cutting areas that we found critical for achieving lasting impact at scale.

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Family Planning Taking Its Place on the Global Stage

Our collective intention is to cultivate and promote a global movement for family planning. It is through partnership, collaboration, and the participation of diverse stakeholders that we, as a community, can transform family planning.

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Two Midwives in Australia Work to Get Past the "Shame Job"

Sheryl Alexander and Bernadette Lack have both worked as outreach midwives and offer a tiny peek into their work around family planning with Aboriginal women. They face many challenges such as infrastructure, culture and geography.

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VIDEO: Female Condoms Are...Power, Protection, Pleasure

Female condoms are an important part of protecting women from both sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy. A new video highlights how women in Mozambique are using the female condom and Pathfinder's Estrella Alcade discusses the challenges that still remain.

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