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HP+ hosted an interactive, online policy forum on August 9, 2022, on how a stronger enabling environment for family planning can reduce contraceptive discontinuation. While much attention is given to reducing unmet need and the uptake of modern contraception, much less attention is given to helping women continue to use their methods once they start. Yet almost one in three new users of family planning discontinues within 12 months of starting for a variety of reasons. The event’s speakers, including Sara Stratton and Sandra Mapemba from HP+; Rahal Saeed from Palladium’s USAID-funded NPI EXPAND project; and Heidi Quinn from the International Planned Parenthood Federation, joined HP+’s Jay Gribble and 101 participants to discuss how program efforts can be strengthened to reduce discontinuation while helping women achieve their reproductive goals. Speakers offered examples from their work globally and in Kenya, Malawi, and Pakistan. The policy forum was the culmination of HP+’s blog series, “Rethinking Contraceptive Discontinuation: Are Solutions Being Overlooked?,” where a variety of authors detailed some of the emerging approaches, such as counseling and services, supply chain, self-care and digital solutions, financing, the development of new methods, and community norms, to address contraceptive discontinuation.
HP+ hosted an interactive, online policy forum on August 9, 2022, on how a stronger enabling environment for family planning can reduce contraceptive discontinuation. While much attention is given to reducing unmet need and the uptake of modern contraception, much less attention is given to helping women continue to use their methods once they start. Yet almost one in three new users of family planning discontinues within 12 months of starting for a variety of reasons. The event’s speakers, including Sara Stratton and Sandra Mapemba from HP+; Rahal Saeed from Palladium’s USAID-funded NPI EXPAND project; and Heidi Quinn from the International Planned Parenthood Federation, joined HP+’s Jay Gribble and 101 participants to discuss how program efforts can be strengthened to reduce discontinuation while helping women achieve their reproductive goals. Speakers offered examples from their work globally and in Kenya, Malawi, and Pakistan. The policy forum was the culmination of HP+’s blog series, “Rethinking Contraceptive Discontinuation: Are Solutions Being Overlooked?,” where a variety of authors detailed some of the emerging approaches, such as counseling and services, supply chain, self-care and digital solutions, financing, the development of new methods, and community norms, to address contraceptive discontinuation.
HP+ hosted an interactive, online policy forum on August 9, 2022, on how a stronger enabling environment for family planning can reduce contraceptive discontinuation. While much attention is given to reducing unmet need and the uptake of modern contraception, much less attention is given to helping women continue to use their methods once they start. Yet almost one in three new users of family planning discontinues within 12 months of starting for a variety of reasons. The event’s speakers, including Sara Stratton and Sandra Mapemba from HP+; Rahal Saeed from Palladium’s USAID-funded NPI EXPAND project; and Heidi Quinn from the International Planned Parenthood Federation, joined HP+’s Jay Gribble and 101 participants to discuss how program efforts can be strengthened to reduce discontinuation while helping women achieve their reproductive goals. Speakers offered examples from their work globally and in Kenya, Malawi, and Pakistan. The policy forum was the culmination of HP+’s blog series, “Rethinking Contraceptive Discontinuation: Are Solutions Being Overlooked?,” where a variety of authors detailed some of the emerging approaches, such as counseling and services, supply chain, self-care and digital solutions, financing, the development of new methods, and community norms, to address contraceptive discontinuation.
HP+ hosted an interactive, online policy forum on August 9, 2022, on how a stronger enabling environment for family planning can reduce contraceptive discontinuation. While much attention is given to reducing unmet need and the uptake of modern contraception, much less attention is given to helping women continue to use their methods once they start. Yet almost one in three new users of family planning discontinues within 12 months of starting for a variety of reasons. The event’s speakers, including Sara Stratton and Sandra Mapemba from HP+; Rahal Saeed from Palladium’s USAID-funded NPI EXPAND project; and Heidi Quinn from the International Planned Parenthood Federation, joined HP+’s Jay Gribble and 101 participants to discuss how program efforts can be strengthened to reduce discontinuation while helping women achieve their reproductive goals. Speakers offered examples from their work globally and in Kenya, Malawi, and Pakistan. The policy forum was the culmination of HP+’s blog series, “Rethinking Contraceptive Discontinuation: Are Solutions Being Overlooked?,” where a variety of authors detailed some of the emerging approaches, such as counseling and services, supply chain, self-care and digital solutions, financing, the development of new methods, and community norms, to address contraceptive discontinuation.
