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New HIP Digital Health Brief

New HIP Digital Health Brief

Digital Health: Strengthening Family Planning Systems Through Time and Resource Efficiencies

What is the program enhancement that can intensify the impact of High Impact Practices (HIPs) in family planning?

Use digital technologies to support health systems and service delivery for family planning.

This new HIP brief summarizes the experience and evidence for the most commonly used digital health technologies aimed at supporting health systems and providers. Key messages from the brief include: 

  • Family planning indicators should be incorporated into new and existing digital health and logistics management information systems.
  • More research is needed about when and how digital applications for provider support are most effective, efficient, and scalable.
  • Mobile money and electronic financial transactions have the potential to provide efficiency and transparency of health care financing and transactions.

Download the HIP brief and visit www.fphighimpactpractices.org to learn more about High Impact Practices in Family Planning.


Increasing the uptake of long-acting and permanent methods of family planning: A qualitative study with village midwives in East Java and Nusa Tenggara Barat Provinces, Indonesia.

A researcher conducts an in-depth interview with a midwife in Kediri, East Java as part of the Improving Contraceptive Method Mix (ICMM) Project in Indonesia. Photo: Universitas Indonesia

Just published in the October 2017 issue of Midwifery, this article describes a qualitative study of the Improving Contraceptive Method Mix Project (ICMM) in Indonesia. The article looks at attitudes and perceptions of village level midwives regarding provision of family planning, particularly long-acting methods. Highlights:

  • Shortage of knowledge about LAPMs—resulting in misconceptions at the community level—can prevent utilization of LAPMs.
  • Confusion about midwives eligibility to deliver family planning services can further hinder LAPM availability and utilization.
  • Village midwives have limited opportunities to attend CTU and counseling trainings.
  • Only a few midwives have IEC materials to use during family planning counseling sessions.
  • There was a shortage of LAPM-related equipment among village midwives.

The article is available online here.


Filling the Void: Addressing AMA and HP Pregnancy Through Research and Social and Behavior Change Communication

High-parity woman in West Africa

Photograph of high-parity woman in West Africa with her six children, used to discuss AMA and HP pregnancy in the study’s focus groups. © 2014 Dieneba Ouedraogo. All rights reserved.

Pregnancies among women of advanced maternal age (AMA, 35 years or older) or among women of high parity (HP, having had five or more births) are linked to maternal and infant mortality. To better understand the context in which AMA and HP pregnancies occur, the USAID-funded Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) project conducted qualitative research on the perception and determinants of such pregnancies in rural and urban locations of two USAID family planning (FP) priority countries – Niger and Togo. HC3 supplemented this research with secondary analyses of DHS data and data from a 2014 Niger study  referred to here as the AMA/HP Niger Women’s Insights Research.

The study showed that urban locations had less restrictive cultural norms preventing FP method use compared to rural locations, and urban Togolese participants demonstrated more knowledge about AMA and HP pregnancy risks than Nigerian participants as a whole. We found that AMA and HP pregnancies were generally seen as part of the reproductive norms in situations where fertility rates remain exceptionally high, such as in Niger. However, pregnancy risks, such as loss of the mother or child’s life, were key fears among men and women in both countries. The study provided important insights needed to address AMA/HP pregnancies through culturally appropriate health communication interventions.

HC3 used these findings to create an Implementation Kit (I-Kit) for FP and maternal and child health program managers. While the I-Kit provides guidance on addressing AMA and HP through social and behavior change communication in Niger and Togo specifically, the resource is designed to be adapted for use in the broader Sub-Saharan Africa region. The I-Kit includes ready-to-use health communication tools for engaging women, decision-makers, communities, healthcare providers, journalists and others. In 2016 and 2017, one organization each in Niger and Togo piloted the I-Kit, integrating selected I-Kit tools into their unique programs and documenting their experiences. Both organizations credit the I-Kit with expanding the scope of topics their programs now address to include AMA and HP pregnancy, and provided concrete suggestions for adapting the materials according to activity and intended audience.

Download Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3)'s full text of the study.


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