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Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers

Welcome to the Johns Hopkins INFO Project's
"Send a Handbook Campaign"

Print copies of Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers are shipping out fast. The INFO Project printed 100,000 and has sent nearly every copy in response to requests from more than 190 countries.

We need your help now more than ever. Your gift of $10 or more will help cover the costs of printing, translating, and sending English and Foreign-language editions of the book to developing countries. Your gift is tax deductible. For each $10 contribution, we will send a print copy to a developing region of your choice. We are almost out of copies and need to raise enough funds for a reprint.

Donate now, by going to the secure donation page
(This will take you to a secure site to donate by credit card. If you live outside the United States and wish to donate, please contact infomark@jhuccp.org)		 Dontate two books for $20 and we'll send you this free Colorful Photoshare Calendar! (While supplies last.)
Campaign Launch Release
On-line Handbook Edition

"It's not just comprehensive and detailed," said a private OB GYN in Southern India, "but simple and easy to understand for all providers. It's very good especially for doctors and providers who are not gynecologists or specialists, but who will be helping women with family planning anyway..."

See what other providers say, how organizations are using the books, and more statistics.

Campaign Background

The United States Agency for International Development funded the research, production, and dissemination of the handbook through a grant to the INFO Project at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. We hope to match the USAID grant with donations from reproductive health supporters and others like yourself who know that accurate and up-to-date reproductive health information is a vital part of reducing the tremendous unmet need for family planning in developing countries.

Despite great progress over the last several decades, more than 100 million married women worldwide want to prevent pregnancy but are not using a contraceptive method. Worries about side effects or lack of knowledge about contraceptive options prevent many women from using contraception. Health care providers need the vital evidence-based information presented in the Handbook so they can confidently counsel their clients with accurate and up-to-date information. (See what's in the handbook at: www.fphandbook.org.)