Family planning in Haiti: the achievements of 50 years.

This publication is one of eight case studies that were developed as part of a broader review entitled Family Planning in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Achievements of 50 Years. As its title implies the larger review documents and analyzes the accomplishments in the entire region since the initiation of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding in the early 1960s. The family planning movement in Haiti began in the 1960s only a short time after family planning activities had been initiated in many other countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region. Initially doctors and demographers worked together to encourage government policies around the issue and to begin private sector service provision programs in much the same way early family planning activities occurred elsewhere. Yet in comparison with other countries within the region Haiti’s progress on reproductive health has been slow.