Key Messages “Need”-based measures, such as unmet need and demand satisfied, are
indicators used at the global level to assess progress in the family planning (FP) field and …

The standard approach for measuring unmet need for family planning calculates actual,
physiological unmet need and is useful for tracking changes at the population level. We …

While unmet need for contraception is commonly used to assess programmatic needs, it
inadequately captures the complexity of fertility and contraceptive preferences, including …

Despite its central importance to global family planning, the “unmet need for contraception”
metric is frequently misinterpreted. Often conflated with a lack of access, misinterpretation of …

Background: To reach global goals related to women and girls' access to modern family
planning (FP) and gender equality, evidence shows that it is critical to understand and …

Background Unmet need for family planning points to the gap between women's
reproductive desire to avoid pregnancy and contraceptive behaviour. An estimated 222 …

Objective To develop a global research agenda that will guide investment in effective
interventions to satisfy the large unmet need for modern methods of family planning …

The large-scale initiatives to address the global unmet needs for family planning (FP) have
gathered and compelled scientists, providers, program managers, and other stakeholders …

Although the range of contraceptives includes methods for men, namely condoms,
vasectomy and withdrawal that men use directly, and the Standard Days Method (SDM) that …

Debates about women's reproductive health and reproductive health care often reflect
fundamental disagreements about women's autonomy and agency over their bodies. As …