{"id":2,"date":"2021-08-25T13:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T16:38:03","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>Icyemezo Cyacu <\/strong>study (which means \u2018Our choice\u2019 in Kinyarwanda) is a project that seeks to implement high-quality, cost-effective, and sustainable postpartum family planning services in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is being conducted by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/departments\/pathology\/research\/rzhrg\/faculty-staff.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/med.emory.edu\/departments\/pathology\/research\/rzhrg\/faculty-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Projet San Francisco\/Center for Family Health Research<\/a> in collaboration with Emory University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is postpartum family planning?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Postpartum family planning is contraception that is initiated as soon as possible after childbirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is postpartum family planning important?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pregnancies within one year postpartum are associated with poor health outcomes for mothers and babies, including preterm birth, low birth weight, small for gestational age infants, and maternal-child death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization recommends postpartum family planning as safe and effective for birth spacing, prevention of unintended pregnancy and abortion, and maternal and newborn health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postpartum family planning has benefits for women, children, and nations.<strong> It is estimated that annual maternal deaths would decrease 73% and annual newborn deaths 80% if care for pregnant women and newborns included postpartum family planning services. <\/strong>If couples spaced pregnancies 2-3 years, under-five death is estimated to decrease 25%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are postpartum family planning services needed in Rwanda?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rwandan Ministry of Health is committed to reducing the unmet need for postpartum family planning. Unfortunately, the availability of postpartum family planning services in Rwanda is currently limited. <strong>Roughly 51% of Rwandan women have an unmet need for postpartum family planning, higher than unmet need during non-postpartum periods. <\/strong>In particular, the use of highly effective long-acting reversible contraceptives in the early postpartum period is low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Icyemezo Cyacu study (which means \u2018Our choice\u2019 in Kinyarwanda) is a project that seeks to implement high-quality, cost-effective, and sustainable postpartum family planning services in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. This project is being conducted by Projet San Francisco\/Center for Family Health Research in collaboration with Emory University. What is postpartum family planning? Postpartum&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7535,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/rwandappfp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}