At least 200 million women around the world want to delay, space, or limit childbearing, but are unable to do so because they lack knowledge of and access to reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services.
A Film about Scaling-Up Best Practices in Asia and the Middle East
NEW PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
- Two new tools to help providers and community health workers counsel clients on the healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP): HTSP Counseling Pathways and an HTSP Training DVD.
Those Who Wish to Sing Always Find the Song Read the story of Samira, an Egyptian woman who was empowered through ESD's partnership with the HERProject to become a peer health educator at her workplace, in her community, and even at the local health center.
Global Health Magazine—ESD Empowers Public to Save Indonesian Women and Babies With help from ESD, a local NGO in Indonesia managed to reduce the number of women dying in childbirth by two-thirds and the number of newborns dying as a result of childbirth by one-half in less than a year.
Global Health Magazine—Yemen: Making Pregnancy More of a Choice, Less of a Risk By working with the Basic Health Services Project, a USAID associate award managed by Pathfinder International, ESD has helped to scale-up eight best practices in reproductive health and family planning that have great potential to reduce maternal and newborn mortality rates.
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Best Practices
At least 200 million women around the world want to delay, space, or limit childbearing, but are unable to do so because they lack knowledge of and access to reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services. 
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