Welcome to the USAID-funded Health Policy Plus project website.

Assessment of Policies that Promote or Inhibit Effective Provider–Client HIV Testing Interactions for Adolescents in Tanzania

Guinea’s National Budgeted Action Plan for Family Planning 2019-2023

Health Policy Plus: Nigeria

Illustrating Madagascar’s Health Financing Funds Flow

Stigma Reduction is a Smart Investment

Making the Case for the Criminalization of Gender-Based Violence in Mali

HP+ is working together with the Ministry for the Promotion of Women, Children, and Families and the National Control Program Against Excision to achieve passage of a law against gender-based violence in Mali.

Three Sweet Dreams and a Nightmare

I have three dreams I’d put forward to family planning donors: sustained commitment to high-quality, voluntary family planning; inclusion of family planning into universal health coverage (UHC); and increased country ownership of family planning program efforts.

Through a Gender Lens: Clarifying the Demographic Dividend

Among the discussion on the demographic dividend, there’s an important topic that is overlooked?—?the importance of addressing gender to maximize the opportunity to achieve a dividend. All too often, family planning is the woman’s responsibility. Addressing gender biases is at the front of many FP/RH programs, and until we change them achieving a demographic dividend will remain beyond the grasp of those who are working toward it.

Investing for a Lifetime of Returns

Family planning is an investment that yields returns on many fronts. It contributes to economic growth by allowing women and couples to decide on the number and timing of children they want; it contributes to female empowerment; and nations reap the benefit of family planning with accelerated economic growth.

Fulfilling Our Promises: Securing Financing for Future Family Planning

In order to secure family planning financing for future generations, planning for sustainable funding must start now. Strategies and investment cases for family planning, now a mainstream practice, still focuses too much on what can be funded through external resources; mobilizing domestic resources seems to be an afterthought.