Technical Area:
Enhancing Demand for Family Planning Information and Services, Particularly for Youth: Reducing Structural Barriers to Foster Positive Norms Around Contraceptive Behaviors

Published 2016 The Balanced Counseling Strategy Plus (BCS+) toolkit, developed and tested in Kenya and South Africa, provides the information and materials that healthcare providers need to offer complete, high-quality family planning counseling to clients living in areas with high rates of HIV and STIs. The BCS+ was adapted from the Balanced Counseling Strategy (León 1999; León et […]

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Technical Area:
Expanding Method Access and Choice: Financing and Service Options including Total Market Approach

A “total market approach” (TMA) to family planning promotes access to family planning for individuals and couples through coordination and collaboration among government health care services, nonprofit health care services, and the business/commercial sector for family planning products. While many countries are interested in the TMA approach to family planning policies and strategies, it’s difficult […]

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Technical Area:
Expanding Method Access and Choice: Financing and Service Options including Total Market Approach

PATH has drawn on its global experience from our total market approach (TMA) work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Vietnam to produce a TMA planning guide to increase access to family planning. The guide and toolkit, produced by The Evidence Project, contain practical information and specific tools to help organizations and other […]

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