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Malawi
5,053 Number of women aged 15-49 (thousands)1 3.79 Total Fertility Rate (TFR)2 65.1% Percent of Married Women 15-49 Using Contraception, Modern Methods2 0.8% Percent of women using IUDs Among Modern Contraceptive Users3 15.1% Percent with Unmet Need for Family Planning2
1United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision, custom data acquired via website
2UUnited Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). Model-based Estimates and Projections of Family Planning Indicators 2022, custom data acquired via website
3UN Contraceptive Use by Method Data Booklet 2019
Family Planning association of Malawi (FPAM)
Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM) is an indigenous, non-profit making, and non-political local NGO established in 1999 registered under the Trustees Incorporation Act. FPAM is affiliated to International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) as a Member Association. It exists to provide comprehensive and integrated youth friendly sexual and reproductive health services to young people aged between 10 and 24, women and men of reproductive age. FPAM targets young people in the rural underserved communities in the provision of integrated youth friendly Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information and services using static and outreach clinics. The objective of collaboration with ICA Foundation is to increase access to quality and free Family Planning services to underserved populations in Lilongwe and Kasungu districts, and the donation is registered into the supply chain management system for the Ministry of Health. The first LNG IUS donation of 300 units was shipped to FPAM in March 2022.