Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy
You Can Choose the Time that is Best
for You and Your Baby
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) is an intervention to help women and families delay or space their pregnancies to achieve the healthiest outcomes for women, newborns, infants, and children, within the context of free and informed choice.
Women and families want to know the safest time to become pregnant. When pregnancies occur (timing and spacing of pregnancies) is important for healthy mothers and healthy babies. HTSP is the timing of first pregnancies and spacing of subsequent ones to help women make informed decisions to achieve the healthiest outcomes for the whole family.
The Research
HTSP is based on careful, longitudinal research conducted by scholars using data from countries around the world, representing diverse populations. This research been published in numerous medical journals, and moreover the recommendations that came out of the research are supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). Click here to read WHO’s policy brief on the research along with other supporting evidence from medical journals.
HTSP in Action
ESD is spearheading the effort to take the evidence from research to the field. To achieve three specific health outcomes, ESD has developed three take-home messages which convey the benefits of and mechanisms for timing pregnancies for first time mothers, families wanting more children, and women who have undergone a miscarriage or abortion. Click here to read the HTSP messages.
ESD works closely with US-based members from 21 partner organizations and projects, to facilitate HTSP information dissemination and integration into programs and activities, such as: advocacy tools, information training materials, curricula, strategies, national policies and guidelines. To read ESD’s HTSP Roll-out Strategy and for other ideas and tools on ways to include HTSP as part of your program, please click here.
Acting as the HTSP Champions’ Secretariat, ESD also tracks partner organizations’ HTSP implementation activities, and shares this information with HTSP Champions Network members, through on-line publications and listservs. To date, the HTSP Champions Network consists of more than 160 members, representing over fifty projects and organizations from 23 countries.
Get Involved!
Contact us to learn more about HTSP or to join the HTSP Champions Network
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