International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025

November 3–6, 2025

Bogotá, Colombia

Event Website (External Link)

ICFP 2025 will unite leaders, advocates, and innovators from across the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) community to exchange ideas, forge partnerships, and drive progress toward achieving and safeguarding SRHR for all.

 

Council staff are bolded; *Presenting author; #Council affiliate

Sessions & Speakers

  1. Tuesday 11/04

    Flash | 11:55–13:15 | Location TBD

    Session—Across Borders and Barriers: Flash Insights on Abortion

     

    Designing and testing interventions to improve post-medication abortion contraceptive service delivery at community pharmacies: Lessons from Nakuru County, Kenya

    Beatrice Otieno*, Kristen Shellenberg, Francis Obare, Steve Sigu, Wilson Liambila, Lucy Nyamwaro

    Oral | 11:55–13:15 | Location TBD

    Session—Family Planning at a Crossroads: Navigating Reproductive Rights and Demographic Pressures in Asia-Pacific, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

     

    Addressing fertility decline without compromising choice: Family planning policies in Central Asia
    Rajib Acharya*

    Poster | 12:00–13:30 | Location TBD

    Poster Session 2

     

    Assessment of referrals between primary health centers and CPs and PPMVs for women requiring family planning in Nigeria: A mixed methods study
    Toyin Akomolafe
    *, Michael Alagbile, Emeka Okafor, Kolawole Oni, Innocent Ubuane, Fisayo Aderinola, Uzoamaka Okafor, Sikiru Baruwa

    Poster | 14:00–15:30 | Location TBD

    Poster Session 3

     

    Does the Challenge Initiative offer a model for catalysing the sustainable scale-up of proven FP interventions?
    Karen Hardee, Meghan Bishop, Anna Hazelwood, Morenike Ukpong-Folayan, Jerry Okal, Samia Hashim, Vicente Jurlano, Cheikh Moussa Camara, Abhishek Kumar#

    Flash | 14:45–16:05 | Location TBD

    Session—Stakeholder Engagement to Inform New Contraceptive Development and Introduction

     

    Clinicians’ perspectives on considerations for the introduction of a self-care contraceptive vaginal ring in Kenya’s public health sector
    Serah Gitome*, Sarah Okumu, Tevyne Omondi, Zachary Kwena, Leah Omondi, Greshon Rota, Elizabeth Bukusi, Everlyne Okado, Betty Njoroge

     

    High acceptability of intravaginal rings (IVRs) among male partners enrolled in a crossover study of 3 different sizes of non-medicated IVRs in the United States
    Barbara Friedland
    *, Irene Bruce, Shakti Shetty, Jessica Atrio, Lisa Haddad*, Marlena Plagianos, Michelle Nguyen, Caio Sant’Anna Marinho, Ann Gottert, Jessica M. Sales, J. Brady Burnett-Zieman

    Poster | 16:00–17:30 | Location TBD

    Poster Session 4

     

    Estimating the incidence of induced abortion among women in refugee settings in Ethiopia
    Yohannes Dibaba Wado*, Stephanie Kung, George Odwe, Yadeta Dessie, Dagim Habteyesus, Bonnie Wandera, Caitlin Rich, Peter Kisaakye, Caroline Kabiru, Francis Obare, and Margaret Giorgio

     

    Strengthening sexual and reproductive health empowerment outcomes through life, family, and health programming: Evidence from married adolescent girls in northern Nigeria
    Matthew Alabi, Ruby Ahaiwe* and Abiodun Adebowale

     

    Catalyzing policy change through private sector integration: The role of the IntegratE Project in transforming Nigeria’s family planning landscape
    Society for Family Health*

     

    Barriers and facilitators of acceptability and uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives in Ethiopia: A systematic review using the COM-B model
    Tariku Shimels
    *, Zewdneh Shewamene, Getachew Teshom

     

    Enhancing sexual and reproductive health and family planning outcomes and overall wellbeing of women workers in East Africa’s formal sectors: A review of programs and a call to action to fill programming gaps
    Zewdneh Sabe
    and Ashish Bajracharya*

     

    Accessing men through male family doctors: A gender-sensitive family planning model in Pakistan
    Mumraiz Khan
    *, Nauman Safdar, Ali M. Mir, Zeba Sathar

    Flash | 16:20–17:40 | Location TBD

    Session—Empowering Adolescents, Transforming Futures: Holistic Approaches to SRHR and Well-being

     

    Slow but not steady? Transitioning of gender norms and agency through community-based empowerment interventions for adolescent girls in India
    Basant Kumar Panda
    *#, Neelanjana Pandey#, Snigdha Banerjee#

    Flash | 16:20–17:40 | Location TBD

    Session—Local and Regional Measurements on Sexual and Reproductive Health

     

    External consistency of HMIS data: Findings from family planning programs in Ethiopia and Nigeria
    Erin Pearson*, Jamie Menzel, Himani Gupta#, Niranjan Saggurti

  2. Wednesday 11/05

    Oral | 10:20–11:40 | Location TBD

    Session—Structural Barriers to Informed Family Planning

     

    Women in business, women in health: Understanding the structural and social barriers facing female PPMVs in family planning service delivery in Kano State, Nigeria
    Society for Family Health*

    Oral | 11:55–13:15 | Location TBD

    Session—Non-traditional Channels for Contraceptive Access and Delivery

     

    Factors associated with the provision of implants by patent proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) in Kaduna, Kano and Lagos, Nigeria
    Toyin Akomolafe*, Sikiru Baruwa, Innocent Ubuane, Michael Alagbile, Emeka Okafor

    Oral | 11:55–13:15 | Location TBD

    Session—Family Planning and Fertility Transitions: Global Perspectives and Development

     

    Emerging unfulfilled desired fertility among low fertility countries: Evidence from Asia and Eastern Europe
    Shreya Singhal*#, Abhishek Kumar#, Ashita Munjral, Rajib Acharya

    Poster | 12:00–13:30 | Location TBD

    Poster Session 6

     

    Post-abortion family planning among women in refugee settings in Uganda
    Peter Kisaakye*, Stephanie Kung, Francis Obare, Caitlin Rich, George Odwe, Bonnie Wandera, Dagim Habteyesus, Yadeta Dessie, Stephen Kizito, Yohannes Dibaba Wado, Margaret
    Giorgio

    Oral | 14:45–16:05 | Location TBD

    At the Counter: Integrating Pharmacies into the Family Planning Ecosystem

     

    Beyond the pills: How pharmacists shape the safety and success of medical abortion in India
    Rajib Acharya*, Rimjhim Bajpai#, Neelanjana Pandey#, Sushanta Kumar Banerjee

    Poster | 16:00–17:30 | Location TBD

    Poster Session 8

     

    Scaling family planning access and service delivery through private sector engagement in Nigeria: Insights from the IntegratE Project
    Society for Family Health*

     

    Multipurpose vaginal rings: Preferences from a national discrete choice survey with US women
    Ann Gottert, Sanyukta Mathur, Timothy Abuya, Irene Bruce, Shakti Shetty, Michelle Nguyen, Jessica M. Sales, Lisa B. Haddad*, Barbara A. Friedland*

     

    From “desire” to “intention”: Fertility preferences, question wording change, and non-response in Mexico’s post-pandemic and uncertain contexts
    Ricardo Regules Garcia*, Ana Ruth Escoto Castillo

     

    Influence de la connectivité sociale des adolescentes sur leur santé de la reproduction et résultats scolaires au Sénégal
    Fatou Bintou Mbow*

  3. Thursday 11/06

    Oral | 11:55–13:15 | Location TBD

    Centering Youth Voices in Research and Response to HIV and SRHR

     

    Unpacking vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STI)/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) among adolescent girls and young women in India: A qualitative study
    Sohini Paul#, Radhika Dayal#, Anupam Joya Sharma, Kuhika Seth, Sowmya Ramesh#, Niranjan Saggurti

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