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 2006
Tuko Pamoja: Adolescent reproductive health and life skills curriculum, PATH and Population Council
Submissions from 2005
A client-centered approach to reproductive health: A trainer's manual, Population Council
An assessment of trends in the use of the IUD in Ghana: National results dissemination and utilization, Ivy Osei, John Gyapong, Monica Wanjiru, and Ian Askew
Bolivia and Mexico: System-wide planning is needed for decentralized postabortion care, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Burkina Faso: Community education program scaled-up in Burkina Faso, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Cómo pueden las y los jóvenes comunicarse en temas de sexualidad planificación familiar, Population Council
Cross-cultural adaptation of reproductive health services in Bolivia, Fernando Gonzales Salguero, Antonieta Martin, Rosario Perez Mendoza, and Ricardo Vernon
Dominican Republic and Mexico: Promote condom use by emphasizing personal benefits, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Emergency Contraceptive Pills: South East Asia Regional Training Manual, Sharif M.I. Hossain, M.E. Khan, Md. Moshiur Rahman, and Mary Philip Sebastian
Enquêtes d'acceptation de paiment destinées à déterminer les prix des produits et services dans le domaine de la santé de la reproduction : manuel de l'utilisateur, Karen G. Fleischman Foreit and James R. Foreit
Expanding access to vasectomy services in the Ministry of Health of Guatemala, Blanca De Rodriguez, Ricardo Vernon, and Jorge Solorzano
Feasibility of introducing a comprehensive package of antenatal care services in rural public clinics in South Africa, Jane Chege, Ian Askew, Nzwakie Mosery, Mbali Ndube-Nxumalo, Busi Kunene, Mags Beksinska, Janet Dalton, Ester Snyman, Wilem Sturm, and Preshny Moodley
Female genital cutting among the Somali of Kenya and management of its complications, Jaldesa Guyo, Ian Askew, Carolyne Njue, and Monica Wanjiru
Improving access to long-term contraceptives in rural Guatemala through the Ministry of Health, Edwin Montufar, Carlos Morales, Ricardo Vernon, Carlos Brambila, and Jorge Solorzano
Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Programme, Ivy Osei, Bertha Garshong, Gertrude Banahene, John Gyapong, Placide Tapsoba, Ian Askew, Clement Ahiadeke, Richard Killian, Edward Bonku, Perle Combary, and William Sampson
India: Enhancing girls' life skills requires long-term commitment, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Introducing magnesium sulphate for the management of pregnancy induced hypertension, The Safe Motherhood Demonstration Project
La salud reproductiva de los y las jóvenes de áreas rurales, Population Council
Los y las jóvenes y su derecho a la planificación familiar, Population Council
Nepal: Support communication to enhance young mothers' reproductive health, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Nursing staff dynamics and implications for maternal health provision in public health facilities in the context of HIV/AIDS, Loveday Penn-Kekana, Duane Blaauw, Khin San Tint, Desiree Monareng, and Jane Chege
Operations research to improve postabortion (PAC) services in three public hospitals, Bolivia, Fernando Gonzales Salguero and Mariel Loayza
Postabortion family planning benefits clients and providers, James R. Foreit
Relatoría: II reunión de investigación sobre embarazo no deseado y aborto inseguro—Desafíos de salud pública en América Latina y el Caribe, Population Council
Repositioning post partum care in Kenya, The Safe Motherhood Demonstration Project
Senegal: Community education program increases dialogue on FGC, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Sexually Transmitted and Other Reproductive Tract Infections: A Guide to Essential Practice, World Health Organization
Systematic screening as a strategy to increase services integration and revenues in Honduras, Ricardo Vernon, James R. Foreit, Fiorella Mancini, Suyapa Pavon, and Jheisy Torres
Systematic screening to integrate reproductive health services in India, N.P. Das, Urvi Shah, Varsha Chitania, Pratibha Patel, M.E. Khan, Anurag Mishra, and James R. Foreit
Taking maternal services to pregnant women: The community midwifery model, The Safe Motherhood Demonstration Project
Technical assistance and training for PROCOSI operations research program, Bolivia, Fernando Gonzales Salguero and Ricardo Vernon
The SMNH implementation framework for districts, The Safe Motherhood Demonstration Project
Transferring Ghana's system of evidence-based health program development: Program for an initial exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Tuko Pamoja: A guide for talking with young people about their reproductive health, KARHP, PATH, and Population Council
Use of systematic screening to increase the provision of reproductive health services in Bolivia, James R. Foreit, Ricardo Vernon, and Patricia Riveros Hamel
Using systematic screening to increase integration of reproductive health services delivery in Senegal, Diouratie Sanogo, Ricardo Vernon, James R. Foreit, Awa M. Coll-Seck, Colonel Adama Adoye, Laty G. Ndoye, Cheikh Bamba Diop, Balla Mbacke Mboup, and Omar Sarr
Willingness-to-pay for services provided by the Clinical Services Improvement Project (CSI) in Egypt, John H. Bratt, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Magdi A. Ibrahim, and Mohammed Edress
Submissions from 2004
A multi-sectoral approach to providing reproductive health information and services to young people in Western Kenya: The Kenya adolescent reproductive health project, Ian Askew, Jane Chege, Carolyne Njue, and Samson Radeny
Community involvement in reproductive health: Findings from research in Karnataka, India, Foundation for Research in Health Systems
Culturally appropriate information, education and communication strategies for improving adolescent reproductive health in Cusco, Peru, Marco Florez-Arestegui Cornejo and Rosalinda Barreto Silva
Determining an effective and replicable communication-based mechanisms for improving young couples' access to and use of reproductive health information and services in Nepal—An operations research study, Center for Research on Environment Health and Population Activities (CREHPA)
Developing a supervision instrument for postabortion care in Guatemala, Bolivia and Mexico, Carlos Brambila
Effects and cost of implementing a gender-sensitive reproductive health program in Bolivia, Erica Palenque, Lizzy Montano, Ricardo Vernon, Fernando Gonzales Salguero, Patricia Riveros, and John H. Bratt
Effects of IGSS' job aids-assisted Balanced Counseling Algorithms on quality of care and client outcomes, Federico R. Leon, Carlos Brambila, Marisela de la Cruz, John H. Bratt, Gustavo Gutierrez, Veronica Davila, Carlo Boniato, and Alex Rios
Encuesta de opinión Católica en México: Julio 2003, Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir and Population Council
Encuestas de voluntad de pago para fijar precios de productos y servicios de salud reproductiva: Manual de usuarios, Karen G. Fleischman Foreit and James R. Foreit
Etude expérimentale sur l'offre de services à base communautaire de santé de la reproduction au Sénégal: Une étude de cas dans le District Sanitaire de Kébémer, Diouratie Sanogo, Mady Cisse, Adama Ndoye, Laty G. Ndoye, Ousmane Faye, and Balla Mbacke Mboup
Evaluation of community education interventions in sexual and reproductive health services in urban-marginal areas of La Paz, Bolivia, Maria Dolores Castro Mantilla and Mariel Loayza Antezana
Experience from a community-based education program in Burkina Faso: The Tostan program, Djingri Ouoba, Zakari Congo, Nafissatou J. Diop, Molly Melching, Baya Banza, Georges Guiella, and Inge Baumgarten
Formal and informal abortion services in Rajasthan, India: Results of a situation analysis, Sandhya Barge, Hillary J. Bracken, Batya Elul, Nayan Kumar, Wajahat U. Khan, Shalini Verma, and Carol Camlin
Impact of improved client-provider interaction on women's achievement of fertility goals in Egypt, Laila Nawar, Ibrahim Kharboush, Magdi A. Ibrahim, Hesham Makhlouf, and Susan E. Adamchak
Improving adolescent reproductive health in Bangladesh, Ismat Bhuiya, Ubaidur Rob, Asiful Haider Chowdhury, Laila Rahman, Nazmul Haque, Susan E. Adamchak, Rick Homan, and M.E. Khan
Improving health care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices in reproductive health in rural Romania, Elaine Claire Himelfarb
Improving the reproductive health of adolescents in Senegal, Nafissatou J. Diop, Heli Bathidja, Isseu Diop Toure, Thierno Dieng, Babacar Mane, Saumya RamaRao, Susan E. Adamchak, Emelita Wong, Adama Ndoye, Aboubacry Sy, and Babacar Fall
Improving the reproductive health of youth in Mexico, Ricardo Vernon and Maricela Dura
Informing the medical community in Guatemala about emergency contraception, Edgar Kestler and Lilian Ramirez
Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health program for urban slum dwellers in India, Dale Huntington, Mary Philip Sebastian, Barbara Mensch, Wesley H. Clark, Aditya Narain Singh, Sohini Roychowdhury, M.E. Khan, Nirmala Selvam, Bella C. Patel, Sandhya Barge, Y.P. Gupta, Lovleen Johri, Gita Biswas, and Manohar Shenoy
Integration of reproductive health services for men in health and family welfare centers in Bangladesh, Ubaidur Rob, Sharif M.I. Hossain, M.E. Khan, Ahmed Al-Sabir, and Mohammed Ahsanul Alam
Introduction of emergency contraception in Bangladesh: Using operations research for policy decisions, M.E. Khan, Sharif M.I. Hossain, and Md. Moshiur Rahman
Involving men in maternity care in India, Leila Caleb-Varkey, Anurag Mishra, Anjana Das, Emma Ottolenghi, Dale Huntington, Susan E. Adamchak, M.E. Khan, and Rick Homan
Involving men in maternity care: South Africa, Busi Kunene, Mags Beksinska, Simphiwe Zondi, Nobuhle Mthembu, Saiqa Mullick, Emma Ottolenghi, Immo Kleinschmidt, Susan E. Adamchak, Barbara Janowitz, and Carmen Cuthbertson
Making motherhood safer in Egypt, Karima Khalil and Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi
Medicalization of female genital cutting among the Abagusii in Nyanza Province, Kenya, Carolyne Njue and Ian Askew
Misoprostol: An emerging technology for women's health—Report of a seminar, Caitlin S. Shannon and Beverly Winikoff
New findings from intervention research: Youth reproductive health and HIV prevention, Family Health International
Opiniones y respuestas: Resultados de una encuesta de opinión a médicos mexicanos sobre el aborto, Diana K. Lara, Lisa Goldman, and Michelle Firestone
Promoting young people's sexual and reproductive health: Stigma, discrimination and human rights, Kate Wood and Peter Aggleton
Promotion of lactation amenorrhea method intervention trial, Kazakhstan, Shamil Tazhibayev, Toregeldy Sharmanov, Ayan Ergalieva, Oksana Dolmatova, Orynkul Mukasheva, Aina Seidakhmetova, and Raikhan Kushenova
Safe Motherhood Demonstration Project, Western Province: Final Report, Charlotte E. Warren and Wilson Liambila
Scaling up a successful counseling model in Guatemala, Guatemalan Association of Female Physicians (AGMM)
Testing a community-based distribution approach to reproductive health service delivery in Senegal (a study of community agents in Kébémer), Diouratie Sanogo, Mady Cisse, Adama Ndoye, Laty G. Ndoye, Ousmane Faye, and Balla Mbacke Mboup
Testing the effectiveness of integrating community-based approaches for encouraging abandonment of female genital cutting into CARE's reproductive health programs in Ethiopia and Kenya, Jane Chege, Ian Askew, Susan Igras, and Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan
The Tostan program: Evaluation of a community based education program in Senegal, Nafissatou J. Diop, Modou Mbacke Faye, Amadou Moreau, Jacqueline Cabral, Helene Benga, Fatou Cisse, Babacar Mane, Inge Baumgarten, and Molly Melching
Tulane University final report, M. Celeste Marin, Anastasia J. Gage, and Suhaila Khan
Understanding induced abortion: Findings from a programme of research in Rajasthan, India, Population Council
Unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion: Data from men and women in Rajasthan, India, Batya Elul, Sandhya Barge, Shalini Verma, Nayan Kumar, Hillary J. Bracken, and Hemlata Sadhwani
Unwanted pregnancy and induced abortion in Rajasthan, India: A qualitative exploration, Batya Elul, Hillary J. Bracken, Shalini Verma, Rajani Ved, Rajesh Singhi, and Karin Lockwood
Willingness to Pay Surveys for Setting Prices for Reproductive Health Products and Services: A User's Manual, Karen G. Fleischman Foreit and James R. Foreit
Youth behavioral risks and psychosocial resources in Peru's alternative-development zones, Federico R. Leon and Mary L. Claux
Submissions from 2003
Actions that protect: Promoting sexual and reproductive health and choice among young people in India, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy and Mary Philip Sebastian
An assessment of trends in the use of the IUD in Ghana, John Gyapong, Gifty Addico, Ivy Osei, Mercy Abbey, Dominic Atweam Kobinah, Henrietta Odoi-Agyarko, Gloria Quansah Asare, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
An observation checklist for facility-based normal labor and delivery practices: The Galaa study, Hania Sholkamy, Nevine Hassanein, Mohamed Cherine, Amr Elnoury, Miral Breebaart, and Karima Khalil
An observation checklist for facility-based normal labor and delivery practices: The Galaa study [Arabic], Hania Sholkamy, Nevine Hassanein, Mohamed Cherine, Amr Elnoury, Miral Breebaart, and Karima Khalil
Assessment of pilot health project outcome indicators: West Bank/Gaza, Laila Nawar, Dale Huntington, Ibrahim Kharboush, Nancy Ali, and Mahmoud Shaheen
Availability and acceptability of IUDs in Guatemala, Carlos Brambila and Berta Taracena
Bangladesh: Link adolescent reproductive health resources to increase access, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Cameroon: Peer education and youth-friendly media reduce risky sexual behavior, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Changing family planning scenario in India: An overview of recent evidence, K.G. Santhya
Creation of a unified management information system for three NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza, Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute
Cultural norms and behavior regarding vaginal lubrication during sex: Implications for the acceptability of vaginal microbicides for the prevention of HIV/STIs, Sarah Braunstein and Janneke van de Wijgert
Enhancing quality for clients: The balanced counseling strategy, Federico R. Leon, Alex Rios, Adriana Zumaran, Marisela de la Cruz, Carlos Brambila, and John H. Bratt
Evaluating operations research utilization: Guidelines for assessing process and impact, M. Celeste Marin and Jane T. Bertrand
Female circumcision in Indonesia. Extent, implications and possible interventions to uphold women's health rights, Meiwita P. Budiharsana, Lila Amaliah, and Budi Utomo
Filipinas: Los 'Campeones' promueven la elaboración de políticas basadas en investigación, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Ghana and Guatemala: Clients and providers need better support and guidance on IUDs, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Ghana y Guatemala: Clientas y proveedores requieren de apoyo y orientación sobre DIU, Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Improving postpartum care among low parity mothers in Palestine, Center for Development in Primary Health Care (CDPHC)
Improving quality of care for family planning services in Uganda, Joel Okullo, Quinto Okello, Harriet Birungi, Ian Askew, Barbara Janowitz, Carmen Cuthbertson, and Florence Ebanyat
Improving the quality of reproductive health care for young people, Liz C. Creel and Rebecca J. Perry
Improving the quality of reproductive health care: How much does it cost?, Laura Raney, Stephanie Joyce, and John Townsend