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TThis paper synthesizes a six year collaboration between a natural familyplanning (NFP) non-governmental organization (NGO) and the NationalHealth Service of the Emilia Romagna region in Italy. It also compares thepublic program experience with NFP services provided in the private sector inthe adjacent region of Veneto. Midwives provided NFP services in governmentfamily health clinics while in the private sector NFP was taught by non-healthlaypersons in a church-based facility. The populations served by these twoprograms were different. Women in the public sector were slightly older andtwo-thirds were married. Forty percent of the clients had chosen to use NFP toachieve a pregnancy. The private sector client, recruited in part through pre-marriage counseling programs, was equally divided between married and singlewomen, though the majority came for advice on avoiding or spacing pregnan-cies. In both regions NFP users were more highly educated than the generalpopulation.
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Girotto, S., Zanichelli(2), A., Stevanella, G. et al. Comparing a Public and Private Sector NFP Program: Implications for NFP Expansion. Advances in Contraception 13, 255–260 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006568324853
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