The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Family Planning 101. More than 200 million women in the developing world will enter their reproductive years during the next decade. Family planning can help save the lives of countless women and children, and will help alleviate poverty, and ensure that families are better able to feed, clothe, and educate their children. This course will provide learners with the basic "need-to-know" information relevant to voluntary family planning (FP) programs and services today.

Photo Credit: Copyright 1999, The Female Health Company, Courtesy of Photoshare. Close up of a female condom

 This course covers topics such as:

  • Benefits of FP and unmet need for FP
  • Importance of voluntary choice in FP programs and services
  • FP guidance provided by the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • The most common methods of FP

as well as:

  • Quality of, and access to, FP services
  • Key FP service delivery tools
  • Key elements of contraceptive security
In addition, this course will describe FP considerations that are unique to the client with HIV, the postpartum client, the postabortion care (PAC) client, and the client who needs emergency contraception.

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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