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Feb
01
New Abortion Data Now Available from Nigeria, Cote d'Ivorie, and Rajasthan, India
The PMA2020 abortion survey module produced updated and expanded estimates of several abortion-related indicators. The results from the surveys provide new insights into the characteristics of women who have an abortion and the pathways leading to...
Jan
25
Training is tied to everything: A perspective from PMA2020 Leading Ambassador Victoria Oladoyin
Each year, Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) hosts a Bootcamp training for selected individuals from the global team. The 2018 Bootcamp, focused on training design and facilitation, providing skills to our global team staff...
Jan
25
New article finds that interviewer familiarity is associated with survey respondents’ family planning outcomes in DRC
A new article published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open examines the relationship between interviewer-respondent familiarity and family planning outcomes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and whether this relationship changes over...
Jan
07
NEW ARTICLE EXAMINES UNDER-REPORTING OF FEMALE STERILIZATION IN A POPULATION WITH HIGH STERILIZATION RATES, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
A new article published in Contraception aims to understand levels and patterns of underreporting of female sterilization in a population with high sterilization rates. This study demonstrates, in a population with high sterilization, that...
Jan
07
RESEARCHERS FIND WOMEN WHO OWNED A CELL PHONE IN BURKINA FASO ARE MORE LIKELY TO REPORT MODERN CONTRACEPTIVE USE
A new article published in Contraception assesses the association between cell phone ownership and modern contraceptive use among women in Burkina Faso. The research seeks to understand the opportunity to track family planning indicators using cell...
Jan
07
Contest Announcement: Use PMA2020 Data for the 11th Annual IPUMS Research Awards Competition
PMA2020’s partner, IPUMS, is hosting its 11th annual IPUMS Research Awards Competition. These awards honor the best research using IPUMS data to advance or deepen our understanding of social and demographic processes. Cash prizes will be...
Oct
29
Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 at the 2018 International Conference on Family Planning
Please join PMA2020 at the 2018 International Conference on Family Planning in Kigali, Rwanda. The Conference brings together the international family planning community to reflect on progress, discuss best practices, and consider how to achieve the...
Jul
31
NEW STUDIES TO COLLECT REPRESENTATIVE FEMALE AND SERVICE DELIVERY POINT ABORTION DATA IN FIVE COUNTRIES
Experts at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) are leading a smartphone-based survey to gather representative data on abortion and post-abortion care (PAC) in three countries – Côte d’Ivoire, India (...
Jul
25
New Data from PMA2020/Uganda Survey Finds Women are Using More Effective Methods of Contraception
New survey results released from Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) show that 3 out of 10 Ugandan women 15-49 years old (30%) are using modern methods of contraception. A growing proportion of both married and unmarried women...
Jul
16
New Article in Health Policy and Planning: Measuring Family Planning Quality and its link with Contraceptive Use in Public Facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
July 16, 2018 - A new article published in Health Policy and Planning documents the development of a composite score for family planning service quality based on health facility data and examines the influence of service quality on...

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