Quality of care in the context of rights-based family planning

Achieving 120 million additional users of modern contraception in the world’s 69 poorest countries requires helping never-users of contraception initiate use, reducing high contraceptive discontinuation among current users, and facilitating switching contraceptives among those who desire to do so. Contraceptive discontinuation accounted for about 38 percent of women with unmet need and also accounted for about 35 percent of unintended pregnancies. Research shows that contraceptive discontinuation decreases and contraceptive use increases with improved quality of care. Yet the incorporation of explicit initiatives on quality and rights within FP2020’s national goals and implementation plans is lagging.