The Gambia Family Planning Association (GFPA) has grown over the years to become the leading provider of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in the country.

GFPA offers comprehensive, quality and gender-sensitive SRH services that range from:

• family planning
• Voluntary counselling and testing
• treatment of sexually transmitted infections
• antenatal and post-natal care
• screens for cancers of the reproductive system
• provides infertility treatment and counselling
• post abortion care

Part of our objective is to ensure these services are accessed by poor and under-served communities, through promoting the SRH rights of couples and individuals using advocacy, and providing information and education.

We also conduct social marketing campaigns for contraceptives and outreach visits.

In 2006, 207,669 clients were served by GFPA. Between 2001 and 2006, we were part of the multisectoral team that helped develop and revise the National Reproductive Health policy.

Despite our many successes, contraceptive prevalence is still only nine per cent, maternal mortality rates are still high at 540, as is the total fertility rate at 4.2 children per woman.

Service delivery points
7 branches and 8 clinics

Partnerships
Government: National Aids Council, National Population commission, RCH Committee.
NGOs: NGO Affairs Agency and The Association for Nongovernmental Organisations (TANGO), National Association of Youth Conference and Organisation, Action AID The Gambia
Private sector: Private banks, Compagne Francaise Afric Ocidental
Donors: UNFPA, IPPF Japan Trust Fund, EU, HIV/AIDS Rapid Response Programme, Global Fund
Partnerships Network: Network of Sahelian NGOs; Consortium of NGOs on gender, rights and sexuality; Partnership on advocacy for HIV/AIDS prevention for Bank employees