About this Research Topic
There is a high unmet need for effective contraception in Sub-Saharan Africa, with low rates of contraceptive use. While this situation has persisted over the last three decades, improvements in contraceptive utilization rates would lead to many high-fertility countries harnessing the demographic dividend. Promotion of modern contraceptive use has resulted in long-term returns on investment such as fertility decline, increases in girl-child education, employment, and women empowerment, household-level socio-economic improvement, as well as averted unintended pregnancies, maternal morbidity, and mortality.
With the advances in contraceptive technology, the global agenda of FP2030, SDGs 2030, the UNFPA strategy of zero unmet need, and the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection will provide research on strategies for increasing contraceptive use; creating a communication platform to share global research, and best practices to advance contraception and family planning
This Research Topic will highlight recent novel research on contraceptive provision and utilization from a global community of practitioners, policy makers and users of family planning; bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences in research, practice, demand creation, and advocacy for use by family planning programs, policymakers, academia, healthcare providers and other stakeholders.
This Research Topic welcomes high-impact articles from experienced and early-career researchers in the field of family planning and contraception. Authors are welcome to submit original research articles based on primary or secondary data, scooping reviews, systematic reviews, case or cohort studies, and program-based research.
Topical areas may include but are not limited to:
- Advances in novel contraceptive technology
- Global impact of COVID-19 on contraceptive use and family planning
- Preferences, safety, and use of long acting and reversible contraception
- Behavioral economics, behavior change, and demand generation for contraceptives
- Applying theories of health behavior, implementation science, and predictive modeling
- Social cultural determinants of contraceptive use, method mix, and male involvement
- Empowerment, gender equality, social norms, and inter-personal relations including the role of intimate partner violence
- Integration of family planning into development and health programs.
- Strategies, gaps, and missed opportunities for achieving global strategies on increased family planning
With the advances in contraceptive technology, the global agenda of FP2030, SDGs 2030, the UNFPA strategy of zero unmet need, and the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection will provide research on strategies for increasing contraceptive use; creating a communication platform to share global research, and best practices to advance contraception and family planning
This Research Topic will highlight recent novel research on contraceptive provision and utilization from a global community of practitioners, policy makers and users of family planning; bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences in research, practice, demand creation, and advocacy for use by family planning programs, policymakers, academia, healthcare providers and other stakeholders.
This Research Topic welcomes high-impact articles from experienced and early-career researchers in the field of family planning and contraception. Authors are welcome to submit original research articles based on primary or secondary data, scooping reviews, systematic reviews, case or cohort studies, and program-based research.
Topical areas may include but are not limited to:
- Advances in novel contraceptive technology
- Global impact of COVID-19 on contraceptive use and family planning
- Preferences, safety, and use of long acting and reversible contraception
- Behavioral economics, behavior change, and demand generation for contraceptives
- Applying theories of health behavior, implementation science, and predictive modeling
- Social cultural determinants of contraceptive use, method mix, and male involvement
- Empowerment, gender equality, social norms, and inter-personal relations including the role of intimate partner violence
- Integration of family planning into development and health programs.
- Strategies, gaps, and missed opportunities for achieving global strategies on increased family planning
Keywords: Long-acting and reversible contraception, behavioral economics and theories, demand generation, social and economic determinants of contraceptive use, gender equality, empowerment
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