Building a PPFP

Movement
AFP Partners Meeting
Nairobi, July 2016

Anne Pfitzer
WHY IS PPFP
IMPORTANT?

• Globally, nearly 65% of

postpartum women have an
unmet need for family planning

• PPFP saves lives, PPFP: IMAGE HERE

30% maternal deaths
10% infant deaths
21% child deaths, ages 1-4

• PPFP is integration!

Photo by Dominic Chavez/FP2020

 WHY IS THE POSTPARTUM PERIOD SO IMPORTANT?

Postpartum Women 0-23 Months

Using
Desire for Metho
Spacing or 31%
Other; 8% Limiting, Not Using
92% FP Method;
61%

UNMET NEED IS HIGHEST DURING

THE POSTPARTUM PERIOD!

Slide Adapted from M. Kerrigan, presented at PPFP Global Meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand Data Source: Moore et al., 2015
 Integration;
Operationalizing contact points

Birth
Pre-pregnancy • home Immunization Pharmacy/ drug
adolescents • facility visits Measles immuniz. shop visits

Pregnancy Neonatal Post-neonatal → 2nd year

period

Family Planning… Every Girl/Woman, Every Time!

 TOTAL ANNUAL BIRTHS
Across participating Chiang Mai and AFP countries

2015 Births (in Millions)

17.1 17.1
6

5 4.9

4.2
4
3.4

3
2.4
46,404,274 Total Annual Births
2.5 2.5

2 1.7 1.7
1.2 1.3
1 0.9 0.7
0.6 0.5 0.5
0.3
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Data sources: UNDP World Population Estimates 2015

2015 Chiang Mai PPFP Global Meeting
Birthplace of a Movement

16 COUNTRIES
Donors & partners
 ONGOING EFFORTS
• 16 Action Plans
• 12 PPFP Steering
Committee calls
• 3 webinars
• 2 Events
• A 2016 Steering
Committee workplan
• TAC partner survey
 Where #ActionPPFP advocacy
might be needed (some examples)
• Incorporate PPFP refresher/
PPLARC training into costed
implementation plans and
GFF investment cases
• Task-sharing: ensuring nurses
and midwives authorized to
insert immediate PP LARCs
• Proof of menses as barrier to
FP access, advocating for use
of pregnancy checklists and
providers overcoming fear of
providing contraceptives to
women who are PP
amenorrheic
• Advocate for resources to
ensure all health facilities
have staff trained in PPFP
counseling and service
provision and all
recognized CHWs counsel
pregnant and PP women
on HTSP and
contraceptive options
• HMIS reform to better
rack PPFP service data
and analyze performance
TO DISCUSS

In your countries…

Has PPFP been added to national FP or RMNCAH

strategies?
Have those strategies and PPFP component been
costed?
What are the policy or regulatory barriers to scaling
up PPFP?
 

For more information and 16 Country Action Plans

View: www.familyplanning2020.org/ppfp

THANK YOU