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- Exploring Upward and Downward Provider Biases in Family Planning: The Case of Parity
The authors conceptualize a distinction between “upward” provider bias that occurs when providers pressure or encourage clients to adopt contraception and “downward” provider bias in family planning that discourages contraceptive use.
- Choices and Challenges: Visualizing Contraceptive Use Dynamics Data in 15 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Interactive data visualization tools, particularly Sankey diagrams, are an effective approach for showing high-level trends in contraceptive adoption, switching, and discontinuation.
- Inequities in Family Planning in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Equity has improved for access to contraceptive methods and for measures to lessen discrimination against key subgroups in low- and middle-income countries.
- The Cost of Providing Comprehensive HIV Services to Key Populations: An Analysis of the LINKAGES Program in Kenya and Malawi
A cost analysis of comprehensive HIV services for key populations at higher risk of infection in Kenya and Malawi showed that costs can be substantial at all program implementation levels, not just service delivery; all these costs should be considered during program planning.
- Experiences of Justice-Involved People Transitioning to HIV Care in the Community After Prison Release in Lusaka, Zambia: A Qualitative Study
HIV care for incarcerated PLHIV in sub-Saharan Africa has improved, but little is known about their post-release experience with care. The authors conducted a qualitative study to describe factors influencing post-release HIV care continuity in Zambia.
- Evaluating Counseling for Choice in Malawi: A Client-Centered Approach to Contraceptive Counseling
Authors found that clients counseled using the Counseling for Choice approach in Malawi reported better quality of contraceptive counseling and experience of care using metrics including person-centered care and quality of information exchange.
- Addressing the Need for a Preexposure Prophylaxis Monitoring and Evaluation Implementation Guide: Experience From Zambia
The authors share the experience of developing a national preexposure prophylaxis program monitoring and evaluation implementation guide in Zambia, which can inform approaches to meet similar needs in other sub-Saharan African countries.
- The Godmother Project: A Virtual Initiative to Support Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Brazil During the COVID-19 Pandemic
WhatsApp groups of pregnant and postpartum women led by dedicated nurse educators can help educate and support women during the perinatal period, especially in contexts of physical distancing requirements or where social support is unavailable.