Elements of Family Planning Success

The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) is a practical, interactive, client-friendly strategy to facilitate integration of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, within family planning service. This toolkit uses three key job aids (visual memory aids) for counseling on family planning, STI risk assessment, and method choice. Experience in Kenya and South Africa shows use of the BCS+ job aids improved the quality of services and counseling and increased the uptake of family planning and VCT.

This is a course for health care providers on postpartum care and family planning authored by ACCESS-FP.

This framework is a guide for our IPPF Member Associations and affiliated/partner organisations.

It builds upon, and complements, existing frameworks and provides an IPPF perspective on peer education.

It can be used by:

- programme designers
- managers
- coordinators
- senior managers overseeing larger peer education initiatives
- supervisors
- trainers
- young people

This online training course is based on the issue of Population Reports, "Elements of Success in Family Planning Programming." It summarizes the core factors contributing to success in family planning programming, as identified by family planning professionals around the world. It highlights program experiences, best practices, and lessons learned. These guiding principles can help family planning professionals plan new programs, make improvements to existing programs, and prepare for future developments and challenges. The course is free and available to all who are interested.

This matrix can assist technical experts, program managers, health providers, peer educators and others to determine what topics and interventions best fit into their own respective programs while taking cultural paradigms into consideration. The depth of each topic should be viewed within the context of a continuous process, wherein a young person’s knowledge base continues to evolve as they pass through each progressive age group. Although the topics may be the same, the information provided will differ by age.

This document provides a strategic framework for youth reproductive health (YRH) and family planning (FP) and its integration into youth development programs. This framework can be adapted to the local context of any program.

The handbook identifies essential areas to be addressed when developing strategies for integrating family planning with ongoing program activities, such as “Deciding Whether to Integrate Family Planning”, “Selecting a Program Strategy”, “Measuring Program Results”, “Identifying Staff Requirements”, “Developing a Contraceptive Supply System” and, “Managing Finances for an Integrated Program”.

This first issue of HIV/AIDS services and family planning and related reproductive health care. To highlight the major issues of integration,

This tool is designed to help health workers counsel people living with HIV on sexual and reproductive choices and family planning. It also is meant to help people living with HIV make and carry out informed, healthy, and appropriate decisions about their sexual and reproductive lives. This tool addresses how to enjoy a healthy sexual life,  how to prevent pregnancy and further transmission of HIV and points to consider in making a decision regarding whether or not to have children.

This issue of Network provides an overview of current thinking about integration intended to encourage health professionals to ask questions or share their experiences in regard to service integration.