The Population Council's Reproductive Health program strives to improve sexual and reproductive health, especially for vulnerable people in developing countries. We help individuals to achieve their family planning and reproductive health goals through improvements in technologies and services. We work to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity and to improve equity and quality in the delivery of care.
Submissions from 2012
Factors associated with second trimester abortion in rural Maharashtra and Rajasthan, India, A.J. Francis Zavier, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, and Shveta Kalyanwala
Factors associated with unintended pregnancy, poor birth outcomes and post-partum contraceptive use among HIV-positive female adolescents in Kenya, Francis Obare, Anke van der Kwaak, and Harriet Birungi
Family Planning Programs for the 21st Century: Rationale and Design, John Bongaarts, John C. Cleland, John Townsend, Jane T. Bertrand, and Monica Das Gupta
Feasibility of expanding the medication abortion provider base in India to include ayurvedic physicians and nurses, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Shveta Kalyanwala, Shuchita Mundle, Jaydeep Tank, A.J. Francis Zavier, Rajesh Kumar, Rajib Acharya, and Nita Jha
Fertility differences among developing countries: Are they still related to family planning program efforts and social settings?, Anrudh K. Jain and John A. Ross
Helping rural women in Pakistan to prevent postpartum hemorrhage: A quasi experimental study, Ali M. Mir, Abdul Wajid, and Sadaf Gull
Hormonal contraception and HIV acquisition risk: Implications for individual users and public policies, Anrudh K. Jain
Incentivizing providers to improve maternal, newborn and child health services in Bangladesh: Pay-for-performance model refinement and advocacy (P4P MRA) final report, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, Laila Rahman, A.K.M. Zafar Ullah Khan, Riad Mahmud, Azizul Alim, Ismat Ara Hena, Farhana Akter, and Anup Kumar Dey
Increasing access to family planning and reproductive health services through community work: A case study of a dual cadre model in India, Jaleel Ahmad, Isha Bhatnagar, and M.E. Khan
Increasing postpartum contraception in rural India: Evaluation of a community-based behavior change communication intervention, Mary Philip Sebastian, M.E. Khan, Kaushal Kumari, and Rukma Idnani
Introduction of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) through lady health workers (LHWs) program in Pakistan: Findings of an evaluation study, Arshad Mahmood and Yasir Bin Nisar
Kadi: Saving Mothers and Babies, One Voucher at a Time, Population Council
Kadi the Film—Webisode 1: Vouchers Improve Health Facilities, Population Council
Kadi the Film—Webisode 2: Mobile Technology for Monitoring Vouchers, Population Council
Kadi the Film—Webisode 3: Vouchers in Pregnancies with Serious Complications, Population Council
Kadi the Film—Webisode 4: Getting Vouchers to Those in Need, Population Council
Kadi the Film—Webisode 5: Distributing Vouchers in Rural Uganda, Population Council
Key opinion leaders' views regarding emergency contraception in India, M.E. Khan, Isha Bhatnagar, Deepthi S. Varma, and Anvita Dixit
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of certified providers of medical abortion: Evidence from Bihar and Maharashtra, India, Rajib Acharya and Shveta Kalyanwala
Le consensus de Bellagio : Recommandations pour améliorer l'accès aux méthodes de contraception efficaces, réversibles à longue durée d'action, Population Council
Maternal and fetal outcomes after introduction of magnesium sulphate for treatment of preeclampsia and eclampsia in selected secondary facilities: A low-cost intervention, Jamilu Tukur, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Idowu Araoyinbo, Ekechi Okereke, and Ayodeji Oginni
Maternal morbidity: Neglected dimension of safe motherhood in the developing world, Karen Hardee, Jill Gay, and Ann K. Blanc
Optimising the cost and delivery of HIV counselling and testing services in Kenya and Swaziland, Carol Dayo Obure, Anna Vassall, Christine Michaels-Igbokwe, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Susannah H. Mayhew, Lucy Stackpool-Moore, Charlotte E. Warren, The Integra Research Team, and Charlotte Watts
Policy brief: Designing and implementing high-quality voluntary family planning programs, Population Council
Policy brief: Designing and implementing high-quality voluntary family planning programs [Arabic], Population Council
Population level impact of vouchers on access in Uganda, Benjamin Bellows, Francis Obare, and Reproductive Health Vouchers Evaluation Team
Positive action for HIV in schools in Kenya, Francis Obare, Harriet Birungi, Monica Wanjiru, Sheila Bayley, John Kiunjuri, Mary Omondi, Rob Burnet, and Bridget Deacon
Postabortion contraceptive use and method continuation in India, A.J. Francis Zavier and Sabu S. Padmadas
Providers' and key opinion leaders' attitudes and practices regarding emergency contraception in Senegal: Key findings, Babacar Mane, Martha Brady, Saumya RamaRao, and Fatou Bintou Mbow
Providers' and key opinion leaders' attitudes, beliefs, and practices concerning emergency contraception: A multicountry study in India, Nigeria, and Senegal, Martha Brady, M.E. Khan, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, Babacar Mane, Ian Askew, and Saumya RamaRao
Providers' and key opinion leaders' attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding emergency contraception in India: Final survey report, M.E. Khan, Deepthi S. Varma, Isha Bhatnagar, Anvita Dixit, and Martha Brady
Providers' and key opinion leaders' attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding emergency contraception in Nigeria, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Araoyinbo Idowu, and Ayodeji Oginni
Providers' and key opinion leaders' attitudes, beliefs, and practices regarding emergency contraception in Nigeria: Key findings, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Araoyinbo Idowu, and Ayodeji Oginni
Providers' attitudes and practices regarding emergency contraception in India: Key findings, M.E. Khan, Isha Bhatnagar, Deepthi S. Varma, and Anvita Dixit
Rape sentencing study: A review of statutory sentencing provisions for rape, defilement, and sexual assault in East, Central, and Southern Africa, Jill Thompson and Felly Nkweto Simmonds
Receiving voluntary family planning services has no relationship with the paradoxical situation of high use of contraceptives and abortion in Vietnam: A cross sectional study, Nguyen Hong Phuong and Meiwita P. Budiharsana
Replication of the Community Mobilization for Postabortion Care (COMMPAC) model in Naivasha District, Rift Valley Province, Kenya: An evaluation report, Chi-Chi Undie, Francis Obare, and Saumya RamaRao
Report of the Voucher and Accreditation Evaluation Project Meeting, Reproductive Health Vouchers Evaluation Team and Population Council
Repositioning community-based family planning in Ghana: A case study of Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS), Stephen Ntsua, Placide Tapsoba, Gloria Quansah Asare, and Frank K. Nyonator
Résumé Exécutif—Les programmes de planification familiale du XXIe siècle: fondement et conception, John Bongaarts, John C. Cleland, John Townsend, Jane T. Bertrand, and Monica Das Gupta
Routine screening for intimate partner violence in public health care settings in Kenya: An assessment of acceptability, Chi-Chi Undie, Catherine Maternowska, Margaret Mak'anyengo, Harriet Birungi, Jill Keesbury, and Ian Askew
Shaping Demand and Practices to Improve Family Health Outcomes: Designing a Behavior Change Communication Strategy in India, Volume 1: Uttar Pradesh, M.E. Khan, Gary L. Darmstadt, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, and Deepika Ganju
Shaping Demand and Practices to Improve Family Health Outcomes: Designing a Behavior Change Communication Strategy in India, Volume 2: Bihar, M.E. Khan, France Donnay, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, and Deepika Ganju
Situation analysis of behavior change communication activities in Bihar: A step towards developing a comprehensive BCC strategy, M.E. Khan, Isha Bhatnagar, Avishek Hazra, and Mukesh Kumar
Situation analysis of health facilities with special reference to family planning services in Pakistan, Arshad Mahmood, Muhammad Jamil Arshad, and Maqsood Sadiq
Strengthening the delivery of comprehensive reproductive health services through the community midwifery model in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Francis Obare, Chi-Chi Undie, Harriet Birungi, Shiphrah Kuria, Ruth Wayua Muia, and Assumpta Matekwa
Study protocol for the Integra Initiative to assess the benefits and costs of integrating sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in Kenya and Swaziland, Charlotte E. Warren, Susannah H. Mayhew, Anna Vassall, James Kelly Kimani, Kathryn Church, Carol Dayo Obure, Natalie Friend du-Preez, Timothy Abuya, Richard Mutemwa, Manuela Colombini, Isolde Birdthistle, Ian Askew, and Charlotte Watts
Testing the feasibility of police provision of emergency contraception in Malawi, Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre, Malawi Police Service, and Ministry of Health
The Africa Regional Sexual and Gender-based Violence Network Annual Partners Meeting: June 26-27 2012, Mombasa, Kenya—meeting report, Population Council
The effect of traditional birth attendant training on maternal and neonatal care, Peter C. Miller, Gul Rashida, Zeba Tasneem, and Minhaj ul Haque
The role of the Standard Days Method in modern family planning services in developing countries, Rebecka Lundgren, Mihira V. Karra, and Eileen Yam
Training manual on the use of magnesium sulphate in the management of severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia [trainee version], Federal Ministry of Health and Population Council
Treatment-seeking for symptoms of reproductive tract infections among young women in India, Shagun Sabarwal and K.G. Santhya
Unintended pregnancy among rural women in Bangladesh, Forhana Rahman Noor, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Ubaidur Rob, and Benjamin Bellows
Submissions from 2011
Abuse from in-laws during pregnancy and post-partum: Qualitative and quantitative findings from low-income mothers of infants in Mumbai, India, Anita Raj, Shagun Sabarwal, Michele R. Decker, Saritha Nair, Meghna Jethva, Suneeta Krishnan, Balaiah Donta, Niranjan Saggurti, and Jay G. Silverman
A P4P model for increased utilization of maternal, newborn and child health services in Bangladesh, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, Laila Rahman, Ismat Ara Hena, and A.K.M. Zafar Ullah Khan
A pay-for-performance innovation integrating the quantity and quality of care in maternal, newborn and child health services in Bangladesh, Laila Rahman, Ubaidur Rob, Riad Mahmud, Azizul Alim, Ismat Ara Hena, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, and Md. Hafizur Rahman
Assessing the effectiveness of a patient-driven partner notification strategy among pregnant women infected with syphilis in Bolivia, Claudia Diaz, Jorge Valencia, Kate S. Wilson, Sandra G. Garcia, Freddy Tinajeros, and Tahilin Sanchez
Can nurses perform manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) as safely and effectively as physicians? Evidence from India, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Shveta Kalyanwala, A.J. Francis Zavier, Rajesh Kumar, Shuchita Mundle, Jaydeep Tank, Rajib Acharya, and Nita Jha
Clients' perceptions of the quality of care in Mexico City's public sector legal abortion program, Davida Becker, Claudia Diaz, Clara Juarez, Sandra G. Garcia, Patricio Sanhueza Smith, and Cynthia C. Harper
Community health workers and the media can be effective in providing health information to married adolescent girls in the community, Population Council
Community health workers can effectively provide information and referrals to people living with HIV in their communities, Population Council
Comprehensive responses to sexual violence in East and Southern Africa: Lessons learned from implementation, Jill Keesbury, Ian Askew, Monica Wanjiru, Grace Chiyaba, Kate Wilson, and Felly Nkweto Simmonds
Concordance and discordance of couples living in a rural Pakistani village: Perspectives on contraception and abortion—A qualitative study, Iram Kamran, Muhammad Shafique Arif, and Katherine Vassos
Costing and economic analysis of strengthening union level facility for providing normal delivery and newborn care services in Bangladesh, Sushil Ranjan Howlader
Engaging media in communicating research on sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and lessons learned, Rose Ndakala Oronje, Chi-Chi Undie, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, and Joanna Crichton
Equity in access to maternal and child health services in five developing countries: What works, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder and Ubaidur Rob
Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive behaviors and RH status: Bangladesh, Ubaidur Rob, Md. Moshiur Rahman, and Benjamin Bellows
Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive behaviors and status in Cambodia, Benjamin Bellows, Charlotte E. Warren, Saphonn Vonthanak, Chhea Chhorvann, Hean Sokhom, Chean Men, Ashish Bajracharya, Ubaidur Rob, and Tung Rathavy
Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive behaviors and status in Cambodia, Benjamin Bellows, Charlotte E. Warren, Saphonn Vonthanak, Chhea Chhorvann, Hean Sokhom, Chean Men, Ashish Bajracharya, Ubaidur Rob, and Tung Rathavy
Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive health behaviors and status in Kenya, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, Francis Obare, Joseph Sunday, Rebecca Njue, Ian Askew, and Benjamin Bellows
Evaluation of the impact of the voucher and accreditation approach on improving reproductive health behaviors and status in Kenya, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, Francis Obare Onyango, Joseph Sunday, Rebecca Njue, Ian Askew, and Benjamin Bellows
Expanding access to safe abortion and post-abortion care: Recommendations of a South Asia regional consultation, Population Council
Experiences and opinions of health-care professionals regarding legal abortion in Mexico City: A qualitative study, Xipatl Contreras, Marieke G. van Dijk, Tahilin Sanchez, and Patricio Sanhueza Smith
Female genital mutilation practices in Kenya: The role of alternative rites of passage. A case study of Kisii and Kuria districts, Habil Oloo, Monica Wanjiru, and Katy Newell-Jones
Focus on male youths in addressing alcohol and drug abuse risk in the context of HIV prevention among young people, Population Council
Gender-based disparities in infant and child mortality based on maternal exposure to spousal violence: The heavy burden borne by Indian girls, Jay G. Silverman, Michele R. Decker, Debbie M. Cheng, Kathleen Wirth, Niranjan Saggurti, Heather L. McCauley, Kathryn L. Falb, Balaiah Donta, and Anita Raj
HIV infection and schooling experiences of adolescents in Uganda, Harriet Birungi, Francis Obare Onyango, Anne Katahoire, and David Kibenge
How often and under which circumstances do Mexican pharmacy vendors recommend misoprostol to induce an abortion?, Diana K. Lara, Sandra G. Garcia, Kate S. Wilson, and Francisco Paz
Identifying opportunities and challenges to strengthen union level facility for providing normal delivery and newborn care services: Findings from policy advocacy activities, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, and A.K.M. Zafar Ullah Khan
Increasing access to family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) services through task-sharing between community health workers (CHWs) and community mid-level professionals in large-scale public-sector programs: A literature review to help guide case studies, James R. Foreit and Sarah Raifman
Increasing access to safe abortion in rural Maharashtra: Outcomes of a comprehensive abortion care model, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, A.J. Francis Zavier, Rajib Acharya, and Shveta Kalyanwala
Increasing access to safe abortion in rural Rajasthan: Outcomes of a comprehensive abortion care model, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, A.J. Francis Zavier, Rajib Acharya, and Shveta Kalyanwala
Informe años dos Movil.com: Evaluación de la línea final resumen de hallazgos principales, Annik Sorhaindo, Xipatl Contreras, Kate S. Wilson, and Sandra G. Garcia
Innovative financing through pay-for-performance for providers to improve quality of care in Bangladesh: Transforming research into action, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Laila Rahman, and Ismat Ara Hena
Innovative financing through pay-for-performance for providers to improve quality of care in Bangladesh: Transforming research into action, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, Laila Rahman, and Ismat Ara Hena
Integrating alcohol risk reduction into HTC services, Population Council
Integrating tuberculosis case finding and treatment into postnatal care, Charity Ndwiga, Harriet Birungi, Chi-Chi Undie, Shiphrah Kuria, Joseph Sitienei, and Sam Ochola
Introduction: Contextualising 'rights' in sexual and reproductive health, Hilary Standing, Kate Hawkins, Elizabeth Mills, Sally Theobald, and Chi-Chi Undie
Introduction of medical abortion in Ghana, Emmanuel Kuffour, Selina F. Esantsi, Placide Tapsoba, Gloria Quansah Asare, and Ian Askew
Is repeat use of emergency contraception common among pharmacy clients? Evidence from Kenya, Jill Keesbury, Gwendolyn Morgan, and Benter Owino
Levels, trends and determinants of contraceptive use among adolescent girls in Kenya, Francis Obare, Harriet Birungi, Chi-Chi Undie, Monica Wanjiru, Wilson Liambila, and Ian Askew
Linking HIV-positive family planning clients to treatment and care services in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Francis Obare, Harriet Birungi, Ruth Wayua Muia, Joyce Wanderi Maina, Mary N. Maina, Christine Awuor, and Ibrahim Mohammed
Making HIV services more responsive to young children and infants in Nyanza, Monica Wanjiru
Managing unplanned pregnancies in five countries: Perspectives on contraception and abortion decisions, Amy Ong Tsui, John Casterline, Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole, Ann M. Moore, Adekunbi Kehinde Omideyi, Nancy Palomino Ramirez, Zeba Sathar, Fatima Juarez, and Kristen M. Shellenberg
Maternal health care utilization among HIV-positive female adolescents in Kenya, Harriet Birungi, Francis Obare Onyango, Anke van der Kwaak, and Jane Harriet Namwebya
Measuring the effect of fertility decline on the maternal mortality ratio, Anrudh K. Jain
New strategies for providing hormonal contraception in developing countries, John Townsend, Régine Sitruk-Ware, Katherine Williams, Ian Askew, and Klaus Brill
Operationalizing and scaling up HIV/RH referrals in Kenya: The way forward, APHIA II OR Project in Kenya