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Achieving Equity in Family Planning: Getting Beyond the Rhetoric Session 1.2.11

Achieving Equity in Family Planning: Getting Beyond the Rhetoric Session 1.2.11. Karen Foreit 1 , Janine Barden-O'Fallon 2 , Jessica Dietrich 3 , Cheikh Seck 4 , Suneeta Sharma 1. 1 Futures Group, USA 2 University of North Carolina, USA

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Achieving Equity in Family Planning: Getting Beyond the Rhetoric Session 1.2.11

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  1. Achieving Equity in Family Planning: Getting Beyond the RhetoricSession 1.2.11 Karen Foreit1, Janine Barden-O'Fallon2, Jessica Dietrich3, Cheikh Seck4, Suneeta Sharma1 1Futures Group, USA 2University of North Carolina, USA 3International Planned Parenthood Federation WHR, USA 4Initiative Senegalaise de SanteUrbaine, Senegal

  2. Why equity? • Neglected topic in family planning • Inequities in access to services violate principles of human rights • May prevent countries from reaching health and development goals

  3. What is an equity approach? • Addresses differences in access to and use of quality family planning services that are: • Unwanted and avoidable • Unfair and unjust • Focuses on sub-groups, not the general population • Targets the mostdisadvantaged

  4. Different situations require different approaches Kenya 2008 • Strategic options: • Focus on the poorest of the rural poor

  5. Different situations require different approaches DR Congo 2007 • Strategic options: • Improve family planning nation-wide • Give special attention to rural areas • May be too soon for a poverty focus

  6. Our panel: research to practice • Disentangling poverty and place of residence • Increasing coverage of vulnerable populations in Bolivia • Designing interventions for urban poor in Senegal • Increasing public resources for health in poorest states of India

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