About the Handbook: Evidence-based Guidance Developed Through Worldwide Collaboration

(For just $10 send a copy of the Handbook to a health care provider in a developing region of your choice!)

The new handbook, Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers, offers clinic-based health care professionals in developing countries the latest guidance on providing contraceptive methods. Primary features of the handbook include:

• First of its kind—developed through a unique, organized process, in which experts from around the world have come to consensus on practical guidance that reflects the best available scientific evidence.
• Expands and improves on its predecessor, The Essentials of Contraceptive Technology, by covering more methods and more related topics and strengthening the evidence base for its guidance.
• Covers more content, but still focuses on the essentials that family planning providers need to provide family planning clients with good-quality care.
• Written in plain terms and organized for quick reference, the book serves as a resource for all levels of health care providers.
• One of the World Health Organization's (WHO) 4 cornerstones of family planning guidance. Together, the 4 cornerstones support the safe and effective provision and use of family planning methods and can be used to develop national guidelines. As the fourth cornerstone, Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers offers technical information to help health care providers deliver family planning methods appropriately and effectively.
• Prepared through a unique collaboration among Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the World Health Organization, the United States Agency for International Development and technical experts from over 30 organizations around the world. These and many more organizations have signed on as supporters of the book.
• Translations are planned for as many as 10 languages, including:
  
  
  • Arabic
  • French
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Portuguese (African)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swahili
    
• All handbooks will be distributed with a free copy of “Do You Know Your Family Planning Choices?,” a wall chart summarizing key points for each contraceptive method that providers can display for clients.

Read more About The Handbook.

This site is hosted by Information & Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs, 111 Market Place Suite 310, Baltimore, MD 21202, Phone: 410-659-6300  Fax: 410-659-6266 Security & Privacy Policy

Disclaimer: The information provided on this web site is not official U.S. Government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government or The Johns Hopkins University.