Family Planning Programme

Why it matters

Each year in the low- and middle-income countries of Africa, 29 million unintended pregnancies occur — 43% of all pregnancies — and 181,000 women die from pregnancy, abortion, or childbirth-related causes (Guttmacher, 2024). The unmet need is large: about 32 million women in these countries have an unmet demand for modern contraception (Guttmacher, 2024). Investing closes the gap and saves money and lives — every additional $1 spent on contraceptive services in these countries saves $2.49 in maternal, newborn, and abortion care, and meeting all sexual and reproductive health needs would cut maternal deaths by 67% (Guttmacher, 2024).

InBasket AI keeps family-planning and maternal care on one continuous record so a small care team can work from a single, trustworthy source of truth — part of expanding access to care for the next billion people.

Designed with reference to recognized global, national, and clinical standards

This care area is designed with reference to a standards ecosystem, including global guidance, national protocols, specialty-society recommendations, interoperability standards, and programme reporting requirements where applicable:

• WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) and Selected Practice Recommendations for contraceptive use
• CDC U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria / Selected Practice Recommendations where locally applicable
• FIGO and national postpartum-family-planning implementation guidance where adopted
• National reproductive-health commodity, counselling, consent, and reporting requirements
• National Ministry of Health standard treatment guidelines, essential medicines lists, and local scope-of-practice rules for the implementation setting
• HL7 FHIR, ICD-10, LOINC, SNOMED CT, and local terminology/coding standards where adopted
• National programme registers, surveillance definitions, DHIS2 or equivalent reporting requirements, and donor-reporting mappings where adopted

Standards sources

These sources substantiate the standards named above. Implementation-specific national protocols are selected from official national or regional authorities during deployment.

1. [1]World Health Organization guidelines and publications
2. [2]CDC clinical guidance
3. [3]CDC ACIP vaccine recommendations
4. [4]Official national Ministry of Health protocols for the implementation setting — Implementation-specific: selected from the official national or regional authority during deployment.
5. [5]FIGO guidance and publications
6. [6]HL7 FHIR
7. [7]WHO ICD classifications
8. [8]LOINC
9. [9]SNOMED CT
10. [10]National programme registers, DHIS2 or equivalent reporting requirements — Implementation-specific programme registers and reporting rules are configured from official national systems where adopted.

Evidence sources

• Guttmacher Adding It Up 2024 — Africa