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Explore why 17 million women in Pakistan still lack access to family planning—and how we can turn the tide through data, policy, and action.
Explore how and where women in Pakistan access family planning services—and why so many still can’t. Uncover the barriers, behaviors, and opportunities shaping reproductive healthcare today.
Despite growing investments, Pakistan’s childhood immunization coverage remains uneven and incomplete. From regional disparities to gender-based gaps, this analysis explores why many children still miss life-saving vaccines—and what the data reveals about the urgent need for more effective, targeted strategies.
Discover how smarter spending—not bigger budgets—can make Pakistan’s public family planning system more effective and far-reaching.
Explore how policy can turn intent into action. This piece highlights what elected leaders can do to meet the growing demand for family planning in Pakistan—and why doing so is urgent for health, equity, and the country’s future.
Explore what it means when 1 in 4 women in Pakistan wants family planning but can’t access it—and what we can do to change that.
Explore why female sterilization remains the most common—but often delayed—family planning method in Pakistan, and what that means for reproductive health outcomes.
Explore how countries like Iran, Bangladesh, and India transformed their family planning programs—and what Pakistan can learn from their success. From religious engagement to community-led models, these regional insights offer powerful lessons for progress.
Mismatched records and unreliable survey methods distort Pakistan’s immunization data, making it hard to track true coverage. This analysis breaks down where the gaps are—between mothers’ recall, vaccination cards, and facility records—and offers concrete ways to improve accuracy through better oversight and digital recordkeeping.
Policy Brief 10: Validating Measures Of Immunization Coverage: Lessons From International Experience
Maternal recall is often used to measure immunization coverage—but how accurate is it? Explore global and local evidence that reveals how data collection methods can distort the full picture and what smarter approaches can do to improve how we understand vaccine access.
Immunization success depends more on parental behavior and access than workforce numbers. Explore how infrastructure design and household dynamics shape vaccine delivery outcomes.
Explore how Pakistan’s private sector is redefining family planning access—with scalable models, community-driven solutions, and lessons that public systems can learn from.
Explore the mismatch between family planning service delivery and actual usage in Pakistan—and uncover why more supply doesn’t always mean more access.
Parental education, household wealth, urban residence, and proximity to health facilities all significantly increase the likelihood of children being fully immunized in Pakistan. This analysis reveals that the children left behind aren’t invisible—they’re marginalized within the same communities. Understanding these patterns is key to designing outreach that truly reaches every child.
Explore how Lady Health Workers (LHWs) are transforming family planning access in Pakistan’s poorest communities—from door-to-door services to driving a nationwide shift toward modern contraceptive use.
Pakistan’s youth could be its greatest economic asset—or its biggest missed opportunity; the outcome depends on urgent, strategic action now.
Explore how mismanagement—not lack of funding—is at the heart of the issue, and what decisive, low-cost reforms could unlock real impact.
Explore how political leadership can drive better family planning outcomes by demanding efficiency, engaging communities, and championing smarter investments in public health.
Explore how countries like Sri Lanka and Malaysia dramatically reduced maternal deaths by investing in skilled midwives. This piece breaks down the global lessons and smart strategies behind safer births—and what they mean for Pakistan.
Explore the promise and pitfalls of Pakistan’s Community Midwives program—why it hasn’t reached its potential and what can still be done to turn it into a lifesaving force for maternal health.
They’re everywhere during vaccination campaigns—but what are Lady Health Workers really contributing to Pakistan’s routine immunization rates?
Explore how self-procurement shapes the landscape of family planning in Pakistan—and what it means for equity, resource allocation, and reaching young, underserved women.
Explore the economic power of prevention—this policy brief shows how investing in family planning can yield massive savings for Pakistan’s health, education, and social systems.
Explore the reality behind antenatal care in Pakistan—are pregnant women truly receiving the preventive care they need, or just routine check-ups? This snapshot uncovers the gap between visits and impact, urging a re-think of how we define and deliver maternal health services.
In rural Pakistan, women still view childbirth as natural and safe—even when skilled help could save lives.
Discover how women in underserved communities perceive family planning—what they trust, what holds them back, and what they really need. Their voices offer powerful insights for designing programs that truly resonate.
Widespread mistrust and lack of awareness are keeping polio vaccines out of reach for vulnerable communities. Discover how deeply entrenched misconceptions, low health literacy, and barriers in communication prevent uptake—especially among low-income Pashtun families—and what it will take to turn that tide.
Explore the hidden costs of unmet family planning in Pakistan through the lens of unsafe abortions—how gaps in access, awareness, and care put women’s lives at risk, and what can be done to change that.
Twelve years after devolution, Pakistan’s health systems still struggle with unclear roles, weak coordination—and untapped potential for reform.
When political manifestos ignore population growth, Pakistan risks outpacing its resources—can parties afford to stay silent?
Every party promises better health—but are they curing the system or just chasing votes?
Explore how reproductive health knowledge evolves across a woman’s life in rural Pakistan—and why it’s critical to start the conversation earlier, better, and smarter.
Explore why more contraceptives didn’t mean more users in Pakistan—and what that tells us about supply, demand, and smarter family planning strategies.
Discover how demand-side financing (DSF) can revolutionize access to reproductive health in Pakistan. This piece explores how smart financial incentives can empower communities, reduce maternal mortality, and bring essential services to underserved areas.
Can we predict national health trends—without waiting years for surveys? Here’s how existing supply data might hold the answer.
What would it take for promises in party manifestos to shape real, measurable health policies?
Health insurance schemes often fail the poor—this brief unpacks why and what to fix.
Explore how two provinces tackled health reform after devolution—this review compares Punjab and KP’s reproductive health strategies, highlighting what worked, what didn’t, and where policy can go next.
Why do key health decisions in Pakistan often ignore evidence—and what happens when politics trumps public need?
What happens when girls are taught to lead, earn, and question early marriage? A look inside two communities on the brink of change.
Despite decades of programs and rising food availability, why are Pakistan’s children and women still trapped in a cycle of malnutrition, anemia, and food insecurity?
Despite a decade of progress on paper, maternal and child malnutrition in Pakistan has worsened—find out why the numbers tell a very different story.
Explore how six years of data reveal surprising shifts in Pakistan’s contraceptive trends—what’s rising, what’s declining, and why it matters for future family planning strategies.
Explore how household investment in education shapes family planning choices in Pakistan—and why some families view children not as a necessity, but as a luxury.
An innovative, community-first model for tackling urban poverty—designed for scalability.
What happens when rural labor forces collide with urban job systems? The dynamics might surprise you.
An essential overview of the health information of the districts in Rawalpindi, to guide and inform interventions.
Two years in, this Urban Lab isn’t just a pilot—it’s shifting how cities think about family planning.
Can local voices help count populations better than expensive surveys? Here’s what we found.
Low-cost outreach in urban slums might be the key to family planning success—year one results inside.
Explore how a community-powered outreach model in Rawalpindi’s urban slums led to a 14% rise in family planning uptake—boosting women’s health and economic agency through real-time data, counseling, and grassroots entrepreneurship.
Explore how a grassroots outreach model in Dhok Hassu transformed family planning access—raising CPR by 14%, empowering local women, and proving that low-cost, community-driven solutions can achieve powerful, scalable impact.
Explore the path to 50% contraceptive coverage in Pakistan—this deep dive unpacks what it really takes to close the gap, from optimizing underused health facilities to unlocking community-led outreach.
Explore how cultural preferences quietly shape family size and contraceptive choices—this dive into son preference in urban Pakistan reveals just how deep-rooted the idea of “completing the family” with a boy truly is.
Strong community engagement can be a game-changer for public health. This study highlights how hyper-local awareness campaigns and strategic government messaging significantly improved vaccine willingness and uptake in low-income urban areas—especially where access to health services is limited. Discover what works, what doesn’t, and how context-specific interventions can drive real behavioral change.
What if Pakistan could accurately trace the silent killers behind most child deaths—and do something about it?
Dig into province-wise child mortality data that could redefine how we respond to the leading causes of death.
Not everyone who’s informed is ready to act—especially when it comes to vaccines. Explore how perceptions of risk, age, education, and personal experience shaped COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan’s major urban centers, and why awareness alone wasn’t enough to ensure action.
What do two of Pakistan’s most trusted surveys really reveal about our reproductive health and immunization rates—and why do they disagree?
Discover how Pakistan’s immunization facilities can deliver more with less. By identifying efficiency gaps, this analysis reveals how smart resource allocation—using existing data—could dramatically improve vaccine coverage without increasing costs.
Discover how decision-making dynamics within households shape family planning choices—and why empowering women to choose leads to better outcomes.
Explore how changing family dynamics, rising incomes, and a growing focus on education are quietly transforming fertility choices in Pakistan—and what that means for the future of family planning.
More than 250,000 children in Pakistan die before their first birthday—most from preventable causes. What will it take to change this?
Explore how Pakistan’s birth practices reveal urgent gaps in healthcare access and highlight the critical role of skilled birth attendants in ensuring safer outcomes for mothers and newborns.
Explore the complex realities behind polio vaccine refusals in Pakistan’s Pashtun communities. From identity and state distrust to campaign fatigue and cultural disconnects, this ethnographic insight unveils the human side of resistance—and what it will take to rebuild trust, improve outreach, and finally close the immunization gap.
Outdated planning, mismatched teams, and rigid campaign structures are just a few of the hidden roadblocks hindering Pakistan’s fight against polio. Discover how local context, community trust, and frontline worker support hold the key to breaking through—and what needs to change to make eradication a reality.
Family planning services are growing—but are we meeting the real demand, or just counting numbers?
Clients didn’t stop visiting clinics during COVID-19—but what they chose changed. This data dive reveals how product distribution fell, privacy mattered more than ever, and users shifted between short-term contraceptives.
Why does poor-quality data keep costing lives—and what can Pakistan do to build a public health system rooted in truth?
For millions in Pakistan, a single hospital visit can push a household below the poverty line—this brief reveals just how devastating health costs really are.
Hidden in plain sight: the largest dataset on lipid profiles in Pakistan uncovers a silent genetic risk—are we diagnosing too late to save lives?
Despite global progress, Pakistan’s cervical cancer rates remain above elimination targets—what’s missing from the data, and how can we fix it?
Pakistan’s deadliest diseases aren’t being tracked—this brief shows why outdated data is our biggest health blind spot.
This isn’t just another dashboard—it’s proof that smart data tools can actually shape how Pakistan plans for its future.
How developed is your district, really? These HDI rankings reveal a startling urban-rural divide hiding in plain sight.
1 in 4 kids are missing key vaccines—this brief uncovers how health system gaps and provider choices are quietly fueling the crisis.
Too much stock, too little use—this heat map analysis of contraceptives exposes inefficiencies that data alone could fix.
Using heat maps to transform vaccine data into actionable insights, this brief reveals how smarter visuals can fix real gaps in immunization across Sindh.
Two population models. Two very different futures. This brief unpacks the projections shaping Pakistan’s development priorities—and why policymakers need to choose wisely.
From air pollution to poor diets, this brief reveals the real reasons Pakistanis are dying—and how gender and geography shape your risk.
Which diseases steal the most healthy years from Pakistanis? This data-driven look at DALYs ranks the biggest threats to life and health—by province, gender, and cause.
A single rupee invested in family planning saves twenty-three. This brief makes the economic case for why Pakistan can’t afford to ignore reproductive health.
