Before they became parents, Asiimwe and Kalemba had no knowledge of family planning services. “The question then was, were we going to have a second baby immediately? What were we going to do?”
Asiimwe and Kalemba’s story is not unique. It is a story shared by many couples—especially young couples—across Africa: a story of little or no information about family planning services and the use of contraceptives, partly because of the lack of specific family planning programs for this large, unique subset of young people. Programs that specifically address the needs of couples, also referred to as couple-focused interventions (CFIs), conceptualize the couple as the basic unit that the intervention targets as a means to improving reproductive health practices and outcomes.
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