Join Health Impact Practices on March 14th, 2023, from 07:00 Washington / 12:00 Geneva / 14:00 Addis Ababa for a webinar on Promoting healthy couples’ communication to improve reproductive health outcomes, the latest installment of our High Impact Practices webinar series. Click here for the local time zone for the webinar.
What is the proven high-impact practice in family planning? Implement interventions demonstrated to encourage couples to discuss family planning/reproductive health and make equitable, joint decisions to reach fertility intentions. This webinar focuses on the Social and Behavior Change High Impact Practice Couples’ communication. Couples’ Communication is a form of interpersonal communication that entails the exchange or sharing of information, thoughts, ideas, intentions, and feelings between sexual partners. Couples’ communication is influenced by policies, attitudes, values, culture, social and gender norms, and the individual’s immediate environment. There are many forms of interpersonal communication that could result in uptake of modern contraception or improved reproductive health outcomes, e.g., between woman to woman; man to man; parent to child; provider to client; provider to provider; trusted adult to adolescent.
Download the HIP brief here.
For more information about the HIPs and to view previous webinars, please visit: https://www.fphighimpactpractices.org/.