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Family Planning Policy Environment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Levers of Positive Change and Prospects for Sustainability

Thibaut Mukaba, Arsene Binanga, Sarah Fohl and Jane T Bertrand
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2015, 3(2):163-173; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00244
Thibaut Mukaba
aUnited States Agency for International Development/Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, DRC
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Arsene Binanga
bTulane International LLC, Kinshasa, DRC
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Sarah Fohl
cTulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health Systems and Development, New Orleans, LA, USA
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Jane T Bertrand
cTulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health Systems and Development, New Orleans, LA, USA
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    In November 2013, DRC government and NGO representatives held a press conference at the Third International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa, where the government presented its Declaration of Commitment to Family Planning. Left to right: Dr. Arsene Binanga (Tulane’s Director of Family Planning Programs in the DRC), Dr. Thomas Kataba (of the Ministry of Health’s Studies and Planning Directorate), Mr. Dieudonné Kwete (advisor to the Prime Minister), Dr. Therese Kyungu (Director of the National Program of Reproductive Health), and Mr. Mbadu Mwanda (Director of the National Program for Adolescent Health).
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Thibaut Mukaba, Arsene Binanga, Sarah Fohl, Jane T Bertrand
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Thibaut Mukaba, Arsene Binanga, Sarah Fohl, Jane T Bertrand
Global Health: Science and Practice Jun 2015, 3 (2) 163-173; DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-14-00244
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    • POSSIBLE THREATS TO DURABILITY OF THE MOMENTUM
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