Postpartum family planning (PPFP) and postabortion care family planning (PAC-FP) are essential components of sexual and reproductive health and rights that have the potential to reduce maternal, newborn, and child death by enabling people to plan and space their pregnancies more than two years apart.
To ensure the delivery of high-quality PPFP and PAC-FP services in Bangladesh, health system strengthening is needed at both the community and facility levels. This brief identifies strategic policy actions to effectively engage communities, ensure an enabling environment for service provision, and advance PPFP and PAC-FP across Bangladesh’s public and private sectors.