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Policy Aspects of Achieving Contraceptive Security
A key condition of contraceptive security is a policy environment that enables forecasting, financing, procuring, and delivering contraceptives in a fair and equitable way to all women and men who need them. Contraceptive security exists in a country when all women and men who need and want…
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Patterns and Determinants of Commercial Sector Use Among Adolescent Condom Users in Jamaica and Urban Cameroon.
This study provides a quantitative analysis of the factors that promote and deter commercial-sector condom source choice among adolescents in Jamaica and urban Cameroon to better inform efforts to strengthen commercial reproductive health services for youth. Using data from recent adolescent…
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Creating Conditions for Greater Private Sector Participation in FP/RH: Benefits for Contraceptive Security
Private sector involvement is crucial not only in helping respond to growing market demand but also in expanding consumer choices and ensuring equity in the contraceptive market. Evidence from many countries shows that the nonpoor benefit disproportionately from free and subsidized public sector…
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Factors Influencing the Growth of the Commercial Sector in Family Planning Service Provision
The need to meet the family planning needs of men and women, coupled with dwindling donor resources, is forcing family planning programs worldwide to confront increasingly difficult financial challenges. One option for expanding the resource base for family planning and reproductive health…
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The Influence of Maternal and Child Health Service Utilization and Access to Private-Sector Family Planning Services on Subsequent Contraceptive Use: A Multi-country Study
Does utilization of modern MCH services influence the likelihood of subsequent contraceptive use among women in developing country settings? Does access to private-sector family planning services have an impact on contraceptive use? The answers to these questions have important implications for…
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How Much is Enough? Estimating Requirements for Subsidized Contraceptives: Results from Ten-Country Analysis
This study challenges the widely cited estimate by Dr. John Ross et al (1997). Ross estimates that by 2015 there will be a $210 million dollar annual shortfall in donor funding for contraceptives - assuming the commercial sector's market share remains constant. Dr. Sine presented a new set of…
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Broadening the Commercial-Sector Participation in Reproductive Health: The Role of Prices on Markets for Oral Contraceptives
This study examines the impact of public sector pricing on commercial oral contraceptive (OC) markets. Dr. Foreit found that introducing or promoting free OCs in an established commercial market induces users to abandon the commercial sector without increasing overall use. Conversely, a single…
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What Influences the Private Provision of Contraceptives?
This study discusses the factors that promote or hinder commercial sector participation in the provision of a secure supply of contraceptives. Competition is a key factor, especially when it comes to price differences between publicly and privately provided contraceptives. Other factors include…
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Policy Lessons Learned in Finance and Private Sector Participation
This paper examines lessons learned in USAID's OPTIONS and POLICY projects, both of which have worked extensively in developing countries to foster private sector involvement in family planning and reproductive health care. It presents lessons learned during implementation of these activities…
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Social Franchising as a Strategy to Expand Access to Reproductive Health Services: A Case Study of the Green Star Service Delivery Network in Pakistan
This case study chronicles Social Marketing Pakistan's experience designing and implementing the Green Star Network as documented and interpreted by Population Services International (PSI). Social Marketing Pakistan (SMP) and PSI operate as a joint venture, with SMP functioning as a local…
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What is the Market Development Approach?
- What is the Market Development Approach (MDA) Process for Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health? Brief #1 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What is the Market System Framework and Its Role in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets? Brief #2 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What are Key Terms Used in a Market Development Approach for Health? Brief #3 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- The Meaning and Importance of Stewardship in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets. Brief #4 of 4 in a series on the MDA
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