| Author: DELIVER Project |
| InfoShare Partner: DELIVER/John Snow, Inc. |
| Publication Date: September 2006 |
| Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper |
| Topics: Family planning, Gender, Maternal health/survival, Reproductive health, general, Sexual health/STIs |
| Region: Global |
| Language: English |
| Number of Pages: 4 |
| File Size: 195 KB |
| File Format: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) To read PDF files, you must have Acrobat Reader installed. Visit Adobe's web site to get a free copy of Acrobat Reader. [download here]
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Guatemala, like many Latin American countries, has a long history of inequity in providing basic health care, including lack of access to re-productive health services and lack of quality affordable contracep-tives. Nonetheless, primarily because clients became more knowledgeable about family planning (FP) and benefited from in-creased access to services in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) rose dramatically, from 38 per-cent in 1999 to 43 percent in 2002. Click the link above to download the full text of this brief.
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