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State of the Practice Brief: Ensuring a Voice and a Choice for the Women of Guatemala

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, Sexual health/STIs
Region: Global
Language: Spanish
Number of Pages: 4
File Size: 198 KB
File Format: Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

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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.