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Colombia
14,157 Number of women aged 15-49 (thousands)1 1.65 Total Fertility Rate (TFR)1 77.2% Percent of Married Women 15-49 Using Contraception, Modern Methods2 3.8% Percent of women using IUDs Among Modern Contraceptive Users3 11.2% Percent of married women with unmet need for modern family planning2
1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024, custom data acquired via website.
2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Model-based Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2024, custom data acquired via website.
3 UN Contraceptive Use by Method Data Booklet 2019.
ESAR / PROSER / Orientame
Fundación ESAR (Education for Reproductive Health) is a non-for-profit organization, founded in 1992 and based in Bogota, Colombia. ESAR is dedicated to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights, with emphasis on the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and its adverse health and social consequences, and does this through the training providers and creation a network of service delivery In Latin America. ESAR’s partner, Proser was founded in 1999 and is a non-for-profit, non-governmental organization with the objective of developing, supporting and promoting all activities which contribute to sexual and reproductive well-being. This project is focused on ESAR Colombia providers, which include 2 clinics in Bogota, (Oriéntame) 1 clinic in Pereira, (Apóyame) and an additional 17 independent provider members throughout the country (Bogota, Medellin, Yopal, Pereira, Quibdo, Neiva, Cucuta, Bucaramanga, Pasto, and Ibague) who have all been trained under the same comprehensive care model. The LNG IUS collaboration between ESAR Colombia and ICA Foundation was started in 2014.
