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 2010
Urban family planning program of Bangladesh: Issues and challenges, Ubaidur Rob, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, and A.K.M. Zafar Ullah Khan
Using vouchers to increase access to maternal healthcare in Bangladesh, Ubaidur Rob, Md. Moshiur Rahman, and Benjamin Bellows
Workshop report: Introducing pay-for-performance (P4P) approach and increase utilization of maternal, newborn, and child health services in Bangladesh, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, Ismat Ara Hena, Farhana Akter, Mohammad Ataur Rahman, and Md. Julkarnayeen
Submissions from 2009
Acceptability and promotion strategies for LNG-IUS in Ghana: A public health assessment, Philomena Nyarko, Cletus Adohinzin, Placide Tapsoba, Selina F. Esantsi, John Townsend, Nicholas Kanlisi, Ekua Ed-Nighpense, and Gloria Quansah Asare
An assessment of sexual and gender based violence in Wajir district, North Eastern Kenya, Gladys K. Mwangi and Jaldesa Guyo
A religious oriented approach to addressing female genital mutilation/cutting among the Somali community of Wajir, Kenya, Maryam Sheikh Abdi and Ian Askew
A response to critics of family planning programs, John Bongaarts and Steven W. Sinding
BEING (Becoming Empowered in Nursing Growth): Training guide for nursing students on sexuality and gender, Maryann Washington
Capacity building: Creating a culture of evidence-based decisionmaking, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
ECP Handbook: Introducing and Mainstreaming the Provision of Emergency Contraceptive Pills in Developing Countries, Sharif M.I. Hossain, M.E. Khan, Ricardo Vernon, Jill Keesbury, Ian Askew, John Townsend, and Victoria Rumbold
Enquête sur la contraception d'urgence (CU) au niveau des pharmacies, Nafissatou J. Diop, Babacar Mane, Ousseynou Faye, Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, Thiaba Thiaw, Aissatou Sano Coly, Fatou Mbow, and Youmane Niang Faye
Exploring the lives of youth in the BPO sector: Findings from a study in Gurgaon, Monisha Vaid
Feasibility and effectiveness of integrating provider-initiated testing and counselling within family planning services in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Ian Askew, Juma Mwangi, Robert Ayisi, Josephine Kibaru, and Saiqa Mullick
Female genital mutilation/cutting: Change is possible, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Financial sustainability of reproductive health services—Understanding costs: An essential skill in reproductive health programs, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Gender and reproductive health services: Putting gender perspective into practice, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Guide pour les pilules de contraception d'urgence : Introduire et développer l'offre des pilules de contraception d'urgence dans les pays en voie de développement, Sharif M.I. Hossain, M.E. Khan, Ricardo Vernon, Jill Keesbury, Ian Askew, John Townsend, and Victoria Rumbold
Implementation of maternal health financial scheme in rural Bangladesh, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Ubaidur Rob, and Tasnima Kibria
Improving the health care response to gender-based violence: Phase II, Meiwita P. Budiharsana and Mai Quoc Tung
Improving the quality of family planning and reproductive tract infection services for urban slum populations: Demand-based reproductive health commodity project, Md. Noorunnabi Talukder, Ubaidur Rob, and Md. Mafizur Rahman
Integration of services: Making integrated services a reality, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Introduction and scaling-up of emergency contraception: Lessons learned from three regions, Araceli Fernández-Cerden, Ricardo Vernon, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Jill Keesbury, and M.E. Khan
Kenya's fertility transition: Trends, determinants and implications for policy and programmes, Ian Askew, Alex C. Ezeh, John Bongaarts, and John Townsend
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health policy and guidelines for integrated ante and postnatal care at district hospital community health centre and clinic level, Population Council
Mainstreaming EC in Africa: The EC facilitative re-granting program—Final narrative report, Jill Keesbury, Wilson Liambila, Youmane Niang Faye, and Victoria Rumbold
Mainstreaming emergency contraception in Kenya: Final project report, Jill Keesbury, Wilson Liambila, Francis Obare, and Paul Kuria
Manual for designing community based interventions for preventing postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) using misoprostol: Standardized pilot-test training manual, Saumya RamaRao, Tekle-Ab Mekbib, and Sarah Raifman
Maximizing utilization of research, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Medical response to male same-sex sexuality in western India: An exploration of 'conversion treatments' for homosexuality, Ketki Ranade
Multi-sectoral approaches to preventing sexual assault and domestic violence: A collective force to stop the violence, Population Council
Nurse auxiliaries as providers of intrauterine devices for contraception in Guatemala and Honduras, Ricardo Vernon
Operational research for the introduction of an adolescent health package in the context of cervical cancer prevention, Marieke G. van Dijk, Katherine Wilson, Claudia Diaz, and Sandra G. Garcia
Premarital sexual behaviour among unmarried college students of Gujarat, India, Rachna Sujay
Recent research on sexuality in East Africa, Harriet Birungi, Chi-Chi Undie, and Peter Aggleton
Reference Guides for Health Care Organizations Seeking Accreditation for High-quality, Gender-sensitive Reproductive Health Services, Patricia Riveros, Erica Palenque, Ricardo Vernon, Ignacio Carreno, and John H. Bratt
Reference Guides for Health Care Organizations Seeking Accreditation for High-quality, Gender-sensitive Reproductive Health Services—Appendixes, Patricia Riveros, Erica Palenque, Ricardo Vernon, Ignacio Carreno, and John H. Bratt
Revitalizing family planning: Lessons learned on strengthening contraceptive provision, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Sexual violence: Setting the research agenda for Kenya, Catherine Maternowska, Jill Keesbury, and Nduku Kilonzo
Special needs of in-school HIV positive young people in Uganda, Francis Obare, Harriet Birungi, Anne Katahoire, Hannington Nkayivu, and Aggrey David Kibenge
Standards required in maintaining the chain of evidence in the context of post rape care services: Findings of a study conducted in Kenya, Carol Ajema, Emily Rogena, Hadley Muchela, Buluma Bwire, and Nduku Kilonzo
STI prevalence and associated factors among urban men in Pakistan, Ali M. Mir, Abdul Wajid, Laura Reichenbach, and Mumraiz Khan
The co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and syphilis among pregnant women in Bolivia, Claudia Díaz-Olavarrieta, Kate S. Wilson, Sandra G. García, Rita Revollo, Kara Richmond, Francisco Paz, and Lorena Chavez
The Copperbelt model of integrated care for survivors of rape and defilement: Testing the feasibility of police provision of emergency contraceptive pills, Jill Keesbury, Mary Zama, and Sudha Shreeniwas
The effectiveness of a community-based education program on abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting in Senegal, Nafissatou J. Diop and Ian Askew
The making of the Kenya sexual offenses act, 2006: Behind the scenes, Washington Onyango-Ouma, Njoki Ndung'u, Nancy Baraza, and Harriet Birungi
The Refentse model for post-rape care: Strengthening sexual assault care and HIV post-exposure prophylaxis in a district hospital in rural South Africa, Julia C. Kim, Ian Askew, Lufuno Muvhango, Ntabozuko Dwane, Tanya Abramsky, Stephen Jan, Ennica Ntlemo, Jane Chege, and Charlotte Watts
Youth reproductive health: Investing in the future, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Submissions from 2008
Accuracy of self-screening for contraindications to combined oral contraceptive use, Daniel Grossman, Leticia Fernandez, Kristine Hopkins, Jon Amastae, Sandra G. Garcia, and Joseph E. Potter
Adapting focused antenatal care: Lessons from three African countries, Harriet Birungi
Africa regional sexual and gender-based violence network consultation: Technical exchange and planning meeting, Population Council
Analysis of the evolution of the practice of female genital mutilation/cutting in Burkina Faso, Nafissatou J. Diop, Zakari Congo, Aina Ouedraogo, Alphosine Sawadogo, Lydia Saloucou, and Ida Tamini
A situation analysis of care and support for rape survivors at first point of contact in India and Bangladesh, M.E. Khan, Aruna Bhattacharya, Ismat Bhuiya, and Aditi Aeron
Assessing Integration Methodology (AIM): A Handbook for Measuring and Assessing the Integration of Family Planning and Other Reproductive Health Services, M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes, Saumya RamaRao, Ricardo Estrada, Charlotte E. Warren, Saiqa Mullick, Ian Askew, Harriet Birungi, John Townsend, and Susana Medina
Assessing routine health information system in selected PAIMAN districts by using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS) technique, Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN)
Assessing the need and opportunities for improved linkages between conditional cash transfers and reproductive health programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, Ricardo Vernon and M. Estela Rivero-Fuentes
Assessment of knowledge and attitudes of married women on maternal and newborn health (MNH) in selected union councils of project districts, Pakistan Initiative for Mothers and Newborns (PAIMAN)
Assessment of progress of the Postabortion Care Initiative in Francophone Africa, Thierno Dieng, Mohamed Diadhiou, Nafissatou J. Diop, and Youmane Niang Faye
Bolivia: A gender focus in service delivery improves quality of care, Population Council
Burkina Faso: Political will, law enforcement, and educational campaigns appear to be reducing FGM/C, Population Council
Community-based kangaroo mother care to prevent neonatal and infant mortality: A randomized, controlled cluster trial, Nancy L. Sloan, Salahuddin Ahmed, Satindra N. Mitra, Nuzhat Choudhury, Mushtaque Chowdhury, Ubaidur Rob, and Beverly Winikoff
Comparing the effectiveness and costs of alternative strategies for improving access to information and services for the IUD in Ghana, Ivy Osei, Gertrude Voetagbe, Moses Aikins, John Gyapong, Philomena Nyarko, Harriet Birungi, Gloria Quansah Asare, Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, and Olivia Aglah
Creating the conditions for scale-up of the Men in Maternity intervention in India, Leila Caleb-Varkey, Anurag Mishra, and M.E. Khan
Creating the conditions for scaling up the integration of reproductive health services for men in health and family welfare centers in Bangladesh, M.A. Mannan, Jafar Ahmad Hakim, Syeda Tazneen Waris, Ashraf Ali, AKM Nurul Hakim, Abdul Hannan, Sameena Chowdhury, Saria Tasnim, Saiful Islam, AQM Rezaul Karim, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ubaidur Rob, and M.E. Khan
Delinking female genital mutilation/cutting from Islam, Ibrahim Lethome Asmani and Maryam Sheikh Abdi
Developing comprehensive and evidence-based policy and guidelines for antenatal and postnatal care in KwaZulu-Natal, Prudence Ditlopo, Mantshi Menziwa, Saiqa Mullick, Saumya RamaRao, Janet Dalton, Dolly Nyasulu, Mags Beksinska, and Busi Kunene
Development of a quality assurance procedure for reproductive health services for district public health systems: Implementation and scale-up in the state of Gujarat, M.E. Khan, Anurag Mishra, Vivek Sharma, and Leila Caleb-Varkey
Dissocier les mutilations génitales féminines de l'Islam, Ibrahim Lethome Asmani and Maryam Sheikh Abdi
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua: Promoting family planning during the postpartum period can increase contraceptive acceptance, Population Council
Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua: Women living with HIV have unmet family planning needs, Population Council
Empowering communities to make pregnancy safer: An intervention in rural Andhra Pradesh, Dipa Sinha
Enhancing utilization of the findings from the youth reproductive health project in Senegal, Nafissatou J. Diop and Anta Fall Diagne
Estimates of induced abortion in Mexico: What's changed between 1990 and 2006?, Fatima Juarez, Susheela Singh, Sandra G. Garcia, and Claudia Diaz
Evaluation of the long-term impact of the TOSTAN programme on the abandonment of FGM/C and early marriage: Results from a qualitative study in Senegal, Nafissatou J. Diop, Amadou Moreau, and Helene Benga
Exploring opportunities to project a 'responsible man' image: Gatekeepers views of young men's sexual and reproductive health needs in Uttaranchal, India, M.E. Khan, Anurag Mishra, and Sudhakar Morankar
Exploring positive women's lives in Namakkal District, India, P. Kousalya and Deepika Ganju
Exploring the links between drug use and sexual vulnerability among young female injecting drug users in Manipur, Archana Oinam
Extending prevention of mother-to-child transmission through postpartum family planning in Lesotho, Charlotte E. Warren, Semakaleng Phafoli, Bosielo Majara, and Thato Tsukuluet
Family planning and comprehensive abortion care handbook for medical students and house officers, Population Council
Feasibility, acceptability, effect, and cost of integrating counseling and testing for HIV within family planning services in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Charlotte E. Warren, Saiqa Mullick, Ian Askew, Rick Homan, Ibrahim Mohammed, Robert Ayisi, Margaret Gitau, Josephine Kibaru, Mary W. Gathitu, Judith Maua, Helton Jilo, Juma Mwangi, John Njoroge, Anthony K. Wanyoro, Peter Mohammed Njuguna, and Andrew Mboche
Feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness and cost of models of integrating HIV prevention and counseling and testing for HIV within family planning services in North West Province, South Africa, Saiqa Mullick, Mantshi Menziwa, Nzwakie Mosery, Doctor Khoza, and Edwin Maroga
Financial capacity building for NGO sustainability, John H. Bratt, Rick Homan, Barbara Janowitz, and James R. Foreit
From pilot to program: Scaling up the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Project, Humphres Evelia, Japheth Nyambane, Harriet Birungi, Ian Askew, Rikka Trangsrud, Eva Muthuuri, Irene Chaami, Agnes Odawa, Lucy Musyoka, Susan Mutungi, Margaret Githuiya, and Joan Omuruli
Guía operativa para programas de educación sexual y servicios de salud reproductiva para jóvenes, Ofelia Aguilar, Lorena Santos, Marisa Diaz Infante, Rocio Mejia, Ricardo Vernon, and Antonieta Martin
Helping Egyptian women achieve optimal birth spacing intervals through fostering linkages between family planning and maternal/child health services, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Sarah Loza, and Amal Zaki
Highlighting marital HIV risk and promoting premarital VCT in Nyanza Province, Kenya, Ben Ochieng and Annabel Erulkar
Improving communication between parents and adolescents on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, Nafissatou J. Diop and Alioune Diagne
Improving reproductive health and HIV prevention among married adolescents in Amhara, Ethiopia, Annabel Erulkar and Tekle-Ab Mekbib
Increasing the accessibility, acceptability and use of the IUD in Gujarat, India, M.E. Khan, Sitanshu Sekhar Kar, Vikas Kishor Desai, Pratibha Patel, B.P. Itare, and Sandhya Barge
Increasing women's use of the IUD for family planning, Ricardo Vernon
India: Quality assurance procedure monitors and improves quality of services, Population Council
Institutionalization of quality assurance within district health management: Experiences from Maharashtra and Karnataka, M.E. Khan, Anurag Mishra, Vivek Sharma, Jaleel Ahmad, Jose Joseph, Venkatesh Srinivasan, K.M. Sathyanarayana, Viji Vargees, K.D. Maiti, and Rashmi Sharma
Integrating tuberculosis case finding and treatment into focused antenatal care in Kenya, Charlotte E. Warren and Annie Mwangi
Introducing Systematic Screening to Reduce Unmet Health Needs: A Manager's Manual, Ricardo Vernon, James R. Foreit, and Emma Ottolenghi
Introduction of emergency contraceptive pills in the public health system of Pakistan: A south-to-south collaboration, M.E. Khan, Gul Rashida, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Ali M. Mir, and Ubaidur Rob
Introduction of quality of care and a gender perspective in reproductive health service organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, Patricia Riveros, Antonieta Martin, and Ricardo Vernon
Kenya and Ethiopia: Community and religious leaders are effective advocates for HIV testing for young couples, Population Council
Kenya: Integrating services for FP and HIV improves quality and HIV testing, Population Council
Kenya: Islamic scholars find no religious justification for FGM/C, Population Council
Kenya: Training can enhance providers' management of FGM/C and willingness to advocate against the practice, Population Council