Document Type

Brief

Publication Date

2000

Abstract

In the late 1980s, Peru’s National Family Planning Program within the Ministry of Health (MOH) assigned method-specific targets to clusters of health facilities. In 1998, the MOH changed its policies to ensure that services responded to individual reproductive health needs and wishes. It eliminated method quotas, ended voluntary surgical contraception campaigns, and issued norms to ensure quality of care and informed choice. In 1999, the Population Council collaborated with the MOH to determine whether providers were complying with the new guidelines and, secondarily, to develop a monitoring system to assess compliance over time. As concluded in this brief, family planning providers at Peru’s government health facilities conform to national care guidelines in that more than 90 percent of them treat their clients respectfully and offer them a wide choice of contraceptive options. Nevertheless, it was determined that the majority of providers could further improve the quality of care by giving clients more information about correct use and possible side effects of their chosen method and by screening for contraindications.

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Also available in French and Spanish

DOI

10.31899/rh2000.1009

Language

English

Project

Frontiers in Reproductive Health

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