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From National Strategies to District Realities: Integrating Family Planning Interventions into District Implementation Plans

Ethiopia’s Emerging HIV Financing Gap: The Need for Increased Domestic Funding

Mobile Technology and Citizen Engagement: The Sauti Yangu, Afya Yangu Experience

Understanding and Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in Health Facilities in Ghana: Intervention Endline Report

DMPA-SC Impact Model

Reaching Youth through Radio Programs in Malawi

Malawi's Youth-Friendly Health Services Strategy was designed to increase family planning for the country's young people. To spread the word, HP+ is helping teach young people to produce local weekly radio programs that inform youth about available family planning services.

Beyond Vertical Health Programs: Experts Explore Ways to Integrate HIV into Health Insurance

As of 2017, 37 million people were living with HIV globally. Yet HIV is mostly absent from discussions on health sector reform and universal health coverage.

Why Policy Matters: Contraception and Family Planning

HP+'s Deputy Director of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Jay Gribble discusses on World Contraception Day why policy matters for contraception and family planning.

Strengthening the Self-Reliance of Malawi's Health Sector, One Building Block at a Time

Henry Mphwanthe is a health economist, seconded by the USAID-funded Health Policy Plus project to Malawi's Ministry of Health.

Family Planning Can Mean Big Progress for the Sustainable Development Goals—And Here's How

Funded by USAID, the Family Planning-Sustainable Development Goals (FP-SDGs) Model projects how different levels of family planning use—directly and indirectly through their impact on demographics—can affect a country's ability to make progress toward the SDGs by 2030 and 2050. The open-source model covers a wide range of SDGs and their indicators, including water, sanitation, and housing.