ZAMBIA

Country Profile:

Number of women aged 15-49 (thousands)	2,893
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)	6.2
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) Modern Methods	27
IUD Prevalence	0.1
Percent with Unmet Need for Family Planning	27

Information from UN Dept Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division 200 and Population Reference Bureau 2008 World Population Data Sheet.

ICA Foundation and Lusaka’s University Teaching Hospital (UTH) partnered to make LNG IUS more available to women visiting the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. UTH received their first donation in September 2011. As long term hormonal methods are often unavailable and/or unaffordable, the University Teaching Hospital aims to facilitate access to quality family planning methods and provide LNG IUS to vulnerable women and families throughout Zambia. Upon implementation of community sensitization and demand-creation activities, UTH will integrate LNG IUS distribution into postpartum family planning services within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The University Teaching Hospital is the largest hospital in Zambia and is the principal medical training institution for medical students, interns, and postgraduate doctors, and also trains nurses and clinical officers. Integration of LNG IUS into their family planning services aims to improve the availability of comprehensive reproductive health care at UTH, and increase the number of options available to poor and vulnerable populations in Zambia.