Postabortion Family Planning: A critical component of postabortion care
URL: https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/postabortion-family-planning/
Postabortion family planning (PAFP) is one of several proven High Impact Practices in Family Planning (HIPs) identified by a technical advisory group of international experts. (https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/advisors/)
Postabortion care (PAC), which includes treatment for complications from miscarriage or induced abortion, is an opportune time to counsel and offer clients voluntary contraception. All PAC models include two essential services:
(1) treatment of emergency complications, and (2) voluntary family planning counseling, including provision of contraception. Research studies and data from program implementation consistently show that when clients are counseled and offered contraception as part of postabortion care most women will opt to leave the facility with an effective family planning method.
This updated HIP brief looks at PAFP challenges, impact evidence, and provides tips from implementation experience.
Download the PAFP HIP brief (https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/briefs/postabortion-family-planning/) and visit http://www.fphighimpactpractices.org to learn more about HIPs.
On behalf of the HIPs Promotion & Dissemination Team,
Debra L. Dickson
Knowledge for Health (K4Health)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP)
111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21202
Debra.Dickson@jhu.edu
www.popline.org
410-659-6300
HIFA Profile: Debra L Dickson is POPLINE Database Manager, K4Health Project, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. www.popline.org
Email: ddickson AT jhuccp.org
