WHO family planning and contraceptives Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Webinar: Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services

Posted on August 22, 2019September 18, 2019

WHO launched its first-ever guidelines on ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services in 2014. This ushered a flurry of activity both globally and at the country level to strengthen right... read more →

A novel methodology for strengthening human rights based monitoring in public health: Family planning indicators as an illustrative example

Posted on December 8, 2017August 25, 2018

The last few years have seen a rise in the number of global and national initiatives that seek to incorporate human rights into public health practice. Nonetheless, a lack of clarity persists regarding the most appropriat... read more →

USC researchers develop method to monitor human rights in public health services

Posted on November 10, 2017August 21, 2018

New methodology strengthens public health monitoring using human rights (more…)... read more →

Monitoring, evaluation and accountability: Ensuring rights, equity and quality in family planning programmes

Monitoring human rights in contraceptive services and programmes

Posted on July 28, 2017August 25, 2018

This tool for Monitoring human rights in contraceptive services and programmes contributes to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) ongoing work on rights-based contraceptive programmes. This work builds directly on... read more →

Program on Global Health & Human Rights presents at Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

Posted on November 2, 2016October 1, 2020

The Program on Global Health & Human Rights (GHHR) led two presentations at the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research Nov. 14-18 in Vancouver, Canada. (more…)... read more →

Experts convene at WHO family planning meeting

Posted on January 19, 2016August 21, 2018

The World Health Organization hosted the “Strengthening Family Planning’s Normative Standards for Human Rights Monitoring, Evaluation and Accountability” meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, this December. (more…)... read more →

WHO experts convene to discuss contraception care guidelines

Posted on October 2, 2015August 21, 2018

Professor Laura Ferguson joined World Health Organization experts this week for a meeting to discuss strengthening contraceptive programs through the development of a rights-based quality assessment tool. The objectives o... read more →

New project uses human rights to strengthen family planning programs

Posted on September 4, 2015August 21, 2018

This month the Program on Global Health & Human Rights commenced a new project with the World Health Organization focused on the human rights aspects of monitoring, evaluation and accountability for family planning progra... read more →

Professor Gruskin Joins WHO Family Planning Advisory Board

Posted on May 23, 2015February 27, 2018

Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights, has been invited by the World Health Organization to join the Department of Reproductive Health and Research’s Advisory Group on Strength... read more →

New WHO tool examines reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and human rights

Posted on July 23, 2014August 21, 2018

This month the WHO published the first module of "Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and human rights: a toolbox for examining laws, regulations and policies." The result of a decade-long collaboration, the firs... read more →