CONTENTS

         Chapters
  1. Family Planning—An Asset for Women
  2. Family Planning Saves Lives
  3. Contraceptive Use Helps Women Plan
  4. How Can Family Planning Programs Benefit Women?
  5. Encouraging Men's Cooperation
  6. Employing Women in Family Planning Programs
  7. Shaping Policies to Meet Women's Needs

HIGHLIGHTS


Population Reports is published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-4012, USA


Volume XXII, Number 1
July, 1994
 How Can Family Planning
           Programs Benefit Women?
Contraceptive use protects women from the health risks of unwanted pregnancy and gives women more control over their own lives. Family planning programs help women primarily by providing contraceptive methods. What more can family planning programs do to meet women's needs? Women interact with family planning programs only briefly and infrequently. Still, in addition to providing contraception, those brief contacts can be designed to strengthen women's abilities to fulfill current roles and take on new ones. Program managers can seek to:

  • Encourage respect for women,
  • Provide a range of reproductive health care, and
  • Design program activities to strengthen the skills that enable women to take new opportunities.

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