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 2016
The FGM/C research programme, Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan
The importance of husbands' engagement in family planning discussion to promote contraception use for birth spacing in rural India, Balaiah Donta, Saritha Nair, Niranjan Saggurti, Mohan Ghule, Madhusudana Battala, Anindita Dasgupta, Gajanan Velhal, Jay G. Silverman, and Anita Raj
The ongoing violence against women: Female genital mutilation/cutting, Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan, Suellen Miller, and Jose M. Belizan
The private sector as a provider of family planning services in Egypt: Challenges and opportunities, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, and Benjamin Bellows
The private sector as a provider of family planning services in Egypt: Challenges and opportunities [Arabic], Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Doaa Oraby, and Benjamin Bellows
The risks of partner violence following HIV status disclosure, and health service responses: Narratives of women attending reproductive health services in Kenya, Manuela Colombini, Courtney James, Charity Ndwiga, The Integra Research Team, and Susannah H. Mayhew
Understanding demand for family planning and reproductive health services through the Indian National Health Insurance Scheme in Uttar Pradesh, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kumudha Aruldas, Aparna Jain, Laura Reichenbach, Robin Keeley, and M.E. Khan
Understanding fertility regulation strategies among educated women in Accra, Cicely Marston, Alicia Renedo, Gertrude Nyaaba, Kazuyo Machiyama, and Placide Tapsoba
Understanding married women's vulnerability to HIV infection in Egypt: An exploratory study, Doaa Oraby and Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab
Using the community informant based (MADE-IN and MADE-FOR) methodology for estimating maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in districts Haripur and Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Population Council
Using the community informant based (Made-in and Made-for) methodology for estimating maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, and Irfan Masood
Using the community informant-based (MADE-IN and MADE-FOR) methodology to estimate the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A feasibility study, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, Irfan Masood, Mansoor Qaisar, Sabahat Hussain, and Rehan M. Niazi
Utilization of national health insurance for family planning and reproductive health services by the urban poor in Uttar Pradesh, India, Arupendra Mozumdar, Kumudha Aruldas, Aparna Jain, Laura Reichenbach, Robin Keeley, and M.E. Khan
Submissions from 2015
A cross sectional comparison of postnatal care quality in facilities participating in a maternal health voucher program versus non-voucher facilities in Kenya, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, Lucy Kanya, Francis Obare, Rebecca Njuki, and Marleen Temmerman
A false dichotomy: RCTs and their contributions to evidence-based public health, Laurel Hatt, Minki Chatterji, Leslie Miles, Alison B. Comfort, Benjamin Bellows, and Francis O. Okello
Aligning goals, intents, and performance indicators in family planning service delivery, Saumya RamaRao and Anrudh K. Jain
Analysis of trend of malaria prevalence in the ten Asian countries from 2006 to 2011: A longitudinal study, Shongkour Roy and Tanjina Khatun
An innovative financing model for the progesterone contraceptive vaginal ring through voucher programs, Ishita Chattopadhyay, John Townsend, and Saumya RamaRao
Anneau vaginal à la progesterone: Appel a l'action pour combler les ecarts importants dans la planification familiale postnatal, Population Council
Anneau vaginal à progestérone: aussi sûr pour maman que pour bébé, Population Council
Anneau vaginal à progestérone: évite les grossesses, Population Council
Are parents talking to adolescents about sexuality? Evidence from four slums in Ghana, Selina F. Esantsi, Francis Onyango, Gloria Quansah Asare, Emmanuel Kuffour, Placide Tapsoba, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
Assessing the feasibility of police initiation of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual violence survivors in Lusaka, Zambia, Mary Zama, Mardieh Dennis, Jessica Price, and Stephanie M. Topp
Availability, use and quality of care for medical abortion services in private facilities in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Francis Obare, Edward Ikiugu, Vitalis Akora, Jesse Njunguru, Michael Njuma, Kate Reiss, and Harriet Birungi
Burnout at the frontline: The effect of a reproductive health voucher program on health workers in Uganda, Carinne D. Brody, John M. Irige, and Benjamin Bellows
Can reproductive health voucher programs improve quality of postnatal care? A quasi-experimental evaluation of Kenya’s Safe Motherhood voucher scheme, Claire Watt, Timothy Abuya, Charlotte E. Warren, Lucy Kanya, and Benjamin Bellows
'Changing the World': The Africa Regional Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Network, Chi-Chi Undie, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
Community-level effect of the reproductive health vouchers program on out-of-pocket spending on family planning and safe motherhood services in Kenya, Francis Obare, Charlotte E. Warren, Lucy Kanya, Timothy Abuya, and Benjamin Bellows
Community opinion leaders in Ghana speak out on adolescent sexuality: What are the issues?, Selina F. Esantsi, Francis Onyango, Gloria Quansah Asare, Emmanuel Kuffour, Placide Tapsoba, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew
Community perspectives on parental/caregiver communication on reproductive health and HIV with adolescent orphans and non-orphans in western Kenya, Milka Juma, Jane Alaii, Ian Askew, L. Kay Bartholomew, and Bart van den Borne
Comprendre les grossesses non désirées au Sénégal : Rapport du Profil Pays [Compte rendu de l’atelier de dissémination des résultats auprès des parlementaires], Babacar Mane, Bocar Mamadou Daff, Marie-Jesus Buabey, and Abdelylah Lakssir
Conceptualizing and measuring unintended pregnancy and birth: Moving the field forward, Population Council
Contraceptive use and fertility intentions among women living with HIV in Kenya and Swaziland, Integra Initiative
Cost and technical efficiency of integrated HIV and SRH services in Kenya and Swaziland, Integra Initiative
Creating conditions for scale up: Technical assistance as an implementation research uptake strategy, Ian Askew
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings, Population Council
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings: Review of postpartum and postnatal care programs in Nigeria, Godwin Unumeri and Salisu Mohammed Ishaku
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings: Review of postpartum service packages in Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Saumya RamaRao, and Heather Clark
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings—Task sharing in the delivery of family planning programs: Experiences from Senegal, Babacar Mane, Nafissatou Diop, and Saumya RamaRao
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings—Task sharing policies and practices in the delivery of family planning services: Experiences from Nigeria, Godwin Unumeri and Salisu Mohammed Ishaku
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings—Task shifting and task sharing in the delivery of family planning services: Experiences from Kenya, Wilson Liambila, Saumya RamaRao, and Heather Clark
Delivering medical abortion at scale: A study of the retail market for medical abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Rajib Acharya, Veronique Filippi, and Carine Ronsmans
Distribution d'anneaux vaginaux contraceptifs, Population Council
Does a voucher program improve reproductive health service delivery and access in Kenya?, Rebecca Njuki, Timothy Abuya, James Kelly Kimani, Lucy Kanya, Allan Korongo, Piet Bracke, Benjamin Bellows, and Charlotte E. Warren
Do public health services in Egypt help young married women exercise their reproductive rights?, Nahla G. Abdel-Tawab, Tamer Rabie, Zuzana Boehmova, Loraine Hawkins, Sally Saher, and Atef El Shitany
Education sector response to early and unintended pregnancy: A policy dialogue in Homa Bay County, Kenya, Chi-Chi Undie, Ian MacKenzie, Harriet Birungi, Stephen Barongo, Diosiana Ahindukha, and Caleb Omondi
Education sector response to early and unintended pregnancy: A review of country experiences in sub-Saharan Africa, Harriet Birungi, Chi-Chi Undie, Ian MacKenzie, Anne Katahoire, Francis Obare, and Patricia Machawira
Emergency contraception in Senegal: Challenges and opportunities, Babacar Mane, Martha Brady, Saumya RamaRao, and Ababacar Thiam
Emerging priorities in reproductive, maternal, and newborn health, Population Council
Engaging the missing link: Evidence from FALAH for involving men in family planning in Pakistan—Case study, Seemin Ashfaq and Maqsood Sadiq
Engaging the missing link: Evidence from FALAH for involving men in family planning in Pakistan—Meeting report, Seemin Ashfaq and Farooq Ahmed
Enhancing contraceptive choice for postpartum women in sub-Saharan Africa with the progesterone vaginal ring: A review of the evidence, Saumya RamaRao, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Wilson Liambila, and Babacar Mane
Evaluation de la mise en oeuvre et des réalisations de l’Approche 3D au sein du Plan d’Action National de Planification Familiale (PANPF) au Sénégal—Partie 1: Revue Documentaire, Leslie Dubent, Fatou Mbow, Nafissatou Diop, Fatou Ndiaye Turpin, Bocar Mamadou Daff, and Babacar Mane
Evaluation de la mise en oeuvre et des réalisations de l’Approche 3D au sein du Plan d’Action National de Planification Familiale (PANPF) au Sénégal—Partie 2: Rapport de Synthese, Fatou Mbow, Leslie Dubent, Nafissatou Diop, Fatou Ndiaye Turpin, Bocar Mamadou Daff, and Babacar Mane
Expanding access to education for teenage mothers in Homa Bay County: What ‘might’ work, Chi-Chi Undie
Expanding access to rights-based family planning: Activity brief, The Evidence Project
Expanding access to secondary school education for teenage mothers in Kenya: A baseline study report, Chi-Chi Undie, Harriet Birungi, George Odwe, and Francis Obare
Expanding the role of research evidence in family planning policy, program, and practice decisionmaking, Karen Hardee and Kelsey Wright
Expanding young people's access to integrated services in Malawi, Integra Initiative
Exploring the prevalence of disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Kenya, Timothy Abuya, Charlotte E. Warren, Nora Miller, Rebecca Njuki, Charity Ndwiga, Alice Maranga, Faith Mbehero, Anne Njeru, and Benjamin Bellows
Factors associated with non-use of antenatal iron and folic acid supplements among Pakistani women: A cross sectional household survey, Yasir Bin Nisar, Michael J. Dibley, and Ali M. Mir
Family planning policy, program, and practice decisionmaking: The role of research evidence and other factors, Karen Hardee, Kelsey Wright, and Joanne Spicehandler
Family planning through the lens of men: Readiness, preferences, and challenges, Iram Kamran, Zeba Tasneem, Tahira Parveen, and Rehan M. Niazi
Family planning use and fertility desires among women living with HIV in Kenya, James Kelly Kimani, Charlotte E. Warren, Timothy Abuya, Richard Mutemwa, Susannah H. Mayhew, Ian Askew, and Integra Initiative
Family planning vouchers to improve delivery and uptake of contraception in low and middle income countries: A systematic review, Benjamin Bellows, Ashish Bajracharya, Carol Bulaya, and Sophie Inambwae
Fertility transitions in Kenya and Ghana: Trends, determinants and implications for policy and programs, Ian Askew, Baker Ndugga Maggwa, and Francis Onyango
Fertility transitions in Kenya and Ghana: Trends, determinants and implications for policy and programs, Ian Askew, Baker Ndugga Maggwa, and Francis Onyango
Findings of an evaluation of community and school-based reproductive health and HIV prevention programs in Kenya, Carolyne Njue, Helene A.C.M. Voeten, Eric Ohuma, C. Looman, Dik F. Habbama, and Ian Askew
Gender considerations along the HIV treatment cascade: An evidence review with priority actions, Melanie Croce-Galis, Jill Gay, Karen Hardee, What Works Association, and Population Council
Health facility guidelines and management benchmarks: Improving workplace health services and health management in factories, farms and other workplaces in low- and middle-income countries, David Wofford, Marat Yu, Lauren Shields, and Maria Pontes
‘High profile health facilities can add to your trouble’: Women, stigma and un/safe abortion in Kenya, Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Carolyne Egesa, and Rispah Okelo
How does quality of care relate to a rights-based approach to family planning programs?, Jan Kumar
Increasing access to safe menstrual regulation services in Bangladesh by offering medical menstrual regulation, Reena Yasmin, Ubaidur Rob, Ismat Ara Hena, Tapash Ranjan Das, and Farid Uddin Ahmed
Influence of parental factors on adolescents’ transition to first sexual intercourse in Nairobi, Kenya: A longitudinal study, Chinelo C. Okigbo, Caroline W. Kabiru, Joyce Mumah, Sanyu A. Mojola, and Donatien Beguy
Integration of sexual and reproductive health and HIV services, Integra Initiative
Introduction of DMPA in public health facilities of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan: An evaluation, M.E. Khan, Anvita Dixit, Jaleel Ahmad, and G. Pillai
Investigating the low patterns of modern contraceptive use in Pakistan, Iram Kamran, Zeba Tasneem, Tahira Parveen, and Yasmin Zehra Zaidi
Invest in urban youth sexual and reproductive health to achieve a demographic dividend in Africa, Joyce Mumah, Jessica Brinton, Carol Mukiira, Caroline W. Kabiru, and Chimaraoke O. Izugbara
Kenya adolescent sexual and reproductive health policy, Ministry of Health Kenya
Knowledge and provision practices of misoprostol among pharmacies in Senegal, Ramatoulaye Ndao, Nafissatou Diop, Kate Reiss, Eva Burke, Thoai Ngo, Katharine Footman, and Maaike Van Min
Landscape analysis of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Nigeria, Charlotte E. Warren, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Ayodeji Oginni, Gloria Adoyi, Karen Kirk, and Amy Dempsey
Landscape analysis on pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Bangladesh, Charlotte E. Warren, Sharif M.I. Hossain, Rahat Ara Nur, Kanij Sultana, Karen Kirk, and Amy Dempsey
L’anneau vaginal à progestérone: Résultats de l’étude d’acceptabilité au Sénégal, Babacar Mane, Papa Chimere Diaw, Nafissatou Diop, Fatou Mbow, Heather Clark, Saumya RamaRao, and Deepa Rajamani
L’offre des anneux vaginaux contraceptifs— La planification familiale postpartum: experience du Sénégal, Fatou Mbow, Babacar Mane, and Saumya RamaRao
Low use and high discontinuation of modern contraceptives in Pakistan: Reasons and policy recommendations, Population Council
Mainstreaming of emergency contraception pill in India: Challenges and opportunities, Anvita Dixit, M.E. Khan, and Isha Bhatnagar
Male utilization in integrated SRH and HIV services, Integra Initiative
Marie Stopes International's SIFPO Project—Strengthening international family planning organizations, October 2010–September 2015, Population Council
Meeting contraceptive needs: Long-term associations of the PRACHAR project with married women’s awareness and behavior in Bihar, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Ravi Prakash, Rajib Acharya, Santosh Kumar Singh, and Elkan Daniel
New dialogue for the way forward in maternal health: Addressing market inefficiencies, Katharine McCarthy, Saumya RamaRao, and Hannah Taboada
Offering progesterone contraceptive vaginal rings for postpartum women through integrated family planning and immunization services, Ishita Chattopadhyay, John Townsend, and Saumya RamaRao
Patterns and trends of postpartum family planning in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria: Evidence of missed opportunities for integration, Sennen Hounton, William Winfrey, Aluisio J.D. Barros, and Ian Askew
Peer mentoring: An effective strategy for integrating HIV and SRH services, Integra Initiative
Physicians' and non-physicians' views about provision of medical abortion by nurses and AYUSH physicians in Maharashtra and Bihar, India, Rajib Acharya and Shveta Kalyanwala
Postpartum and post-abortion contraception: From research to programs, Iqbal Shah, K.G. Santhya, and John C. Cleland
Poverty identification for a pro-poor health insurance scheme in Tanzania: Reliability and multi-level stakeholder perceptions, August Kuwawenaruwa, Jitihada Baraka, Kate Ramsey, Fatuma Manzi, Benjamin Bellows, and Josephine Borghi
Prevalence, trends, and determinants of menopause in India: NFHS 1992–93 to NFHS 2005–06, Arupendra Mozumdar and Praween Kumar Agrawal
Progesterone vaginal ring: A call-to-action to fill critical gaps in post-partum family planning, Population Council
Progesterone vaginal ring: Beneficial role in birth spacing, Population Council
Progesterone vaginal ring: Prevents pregnancy, Population Council