Safe Childbirth Checklist Landscape Analysis
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Safe Childbirth Checklist Landscape Analysis

Globally, almost 135 million births occurred in 2023 (United Nations Population Division, 2024), and around 285,000 women* die each year due to pregnancy or childbirth-related causes (World Health Organization [WHO], 2024b). According to the WHO, the most frequent causes of maternal mortality are postpartum hemorrhage, infection after childbirth, and high blood pressure during pregnancy.

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Côte d’Ivoire Family Planning Private Health Sector Assessment (English & French)
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Côte d’Ivoire Family Planning Private Health Sector Assessment (English & French)

The SHOPS Plus project, in collaboration with USAID/Côte d’Ivoire, conducted an assessment of the family planning market and provided targeted recommendations to empower stakeholders to sustainably engage the private sector and help Côte d’Ivoire achieve its Family Planning 2020 targets. This brief highlights key findings and recommendations from the full assessment report.

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Task Sharing Tubal Ligation Services with Health Officers in Ethiopia
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Task Sharing Tubal Ligation Services with Health Officers in Ethiopia

Voluntary long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods and permanent methods are important family planning options. However, in many developing countries, a shortage of trained health providers presents a barrier to accessing these methods. Task sharing LARC and permanent method services with mid-level clinical providers can increase family planning access and choice.

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Building Public-Private Linkages to Advance Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services in Africa
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Building Public-Private Linkages to Advance Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services in Africa

For this presentation, the following objectives were addressed: strengthen existing MOH capacity to engage private sector in RH/FP and HIV/AIDs related services; to create a network for experiential learning across countries on challenges in strengthening PPPs; to strengthen existing relationships and linkages across priority programs in MOHs to work effectively with the private sector; and to produce key actions for participant countries to design, develop and manage private sector partnerships

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