Post Partum Family Planning

Access to Family Planning is key to economic development and reproductive health and rights. However, in many countries in Africa and South Asia women prefer to delay using family planning until after the birth of the first child. Within this context and where delivery in health facility is commonplace, providing family planning after delivery is the most cost-effective approach to increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate. In Rwanda Post-partum Family Planning (PPFP) was introduced into all hospitals in in early 2017. However, one teaching hospital in the south of Rwanda, only achieved 42% uptake among women who delivered there in 2021. The objective of the study was to use experiences from higher performing District Hospitals and mothers delivering at ‘CHUB’ to improve the PPFP uptake.