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ACCESS-FP Program
Community Health Worker counseling a new mother on the lactational amenorrhea method, Bangladesh.
The ACCESS-FP Program is a 5-year, USAID-sponsored global program with
the goal of responding to the significant unmet needs for family planning among postpartum
women. As an Associate Award through the
ACCESS Program, ACCESS-FP is implemented by Jhpiego in
partnership with Save the Children, Constella Futures,
the Academy for Educational Development, the American College of Nurse-Midwives and
IMA World Health.
ACCESS-FP will also collaborate with the
Frontiers in Reproductive
Health Project to jointly implement operations research studies to strengthen access
to postpartum family planning services. USAID Missions and regional bureaus can buy into
the ACCESS-FP award through core funds, field support or MAARDS.
ACCESS-FP will reduce unmet need for family planning among postpartum
women by strengthening family planning in maternal, neonatal and child health service
delivery programs. Specifically, the program will:
- Test alternative service delivery approaches to expand
contraceptive options and increase use of modern family planning methods among
postpartum women;
- Improve use of the lactational amenorrhea method and the
transition to longer-term modern contraceptive methods;
- Educate and counsel on birth spacing; and
- Identify targets of opportunity to strengthen family
planning in maternal, neonatal and child health programs.
Through its linkages with the ACCESS Program, ACCESS-FP presents a
comprehensive strategy to reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and repositioning
postpartum family planning services. By promoting innovative family planning programs
and the integration of family planning as a life-saving intervention at every point
along the household-to-hospital continuum of care, ACCESS-FP will increase recognition
of family planning as an essential component of maternal, neonatal and child
health care.
ACCESS-FP also works collaboratively with Cooperating Agencies in
population, health and HIV/AIDS to share best practices for postpartum family
planning so that all projects can contribute to helping postpartum women and couples
meet their reproductive goals.
Now available: The
ACCESS-FP Programmatic Framework, which demonstrates multiple opportunities to provide FP information and services in maternal and infant health services.
For more information about the ACCESS-FP Associate Award,
read the program brief
or contact ACCESS.
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