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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Paying for family planning./Le financement du planning familial./Como pagar

el costo de la planificacion familiar.

AUTHORS

Lande RE; Geller JS

SOURCE

Population Reports. Series J: Family Planning Programs. 1991 Nov;(39):1-31.

ABSTRACT

This report discusses the challenges and costs involved in meeting the future needs for family planning in

developing countries. Estimates of current expenditures for family planning go as high as $4.5 billion. According to

a UNFPA report, developing country governments contribute 75% of the payments for family planning, with donor

agencies contributing 15%, and users paying for 10%. Although current expenditures cover the needs of about 315

million couples of reproductive age in developing countries, this number of couples accounts for only 44% of all

married women of reproductive age. Meeting all current contraceptive needs would require an additional $1 to $1.4

billion. By the year 2000, as many as 600 million couples could require family planning, costing as much as $11

billion a year. While the brunt of the responsibility for covering these costs will remain in the hand of governments

and donor agencies (governments spend only 0.4% of their total budget on family planning and only 1% of all

development assistance goes towards family planning), a wide array of approaches can be utilized to help meet

costs. The report provides detailed discussions on the following approaches: 1) retail sales and fee-for-services

providers, which involves an expanded role for the commercial sector and an increased emphasis on marketing; 2)

3rd-party coverage, which means paying for family planning service through social security institutions, insurance

plans, etc.; 3) public-private collaboration (social marketing, employment-based services, etc.); 4) cost recovery, such

as instituting fees in public and private nonprofit family planning clinics; and 5) improvements in efficiency.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2035-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Paying for family planning./Le financement du planning

familial./Como pagar el costo de la planificacion familiar.", is(are) Lande RE; Geller JS. The source of this article

is "Population Reports. Series J: Family Planning Programs. 1991 Nov;(39):1-31.". This article was published in 1991

in English; French; Spanish language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2035-06. All rights reserved

with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12035

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