WHY PPFP IS IMPORTANT

• Reduces maternal mortality and morbidity

• Reduces infant mortality and morbidity
• Prevents risk or unwanted pregnancies
• Prevents unintended pregnancies among younger and older women, who have the
greatest risk of maternal and infant deaths
• Reduces the incidence of abortion, especially unsafe abortion
• Allows women to space their pregnancies
• Reduces the number of cases of vertical transmission of HIV and AIDS from mother to
child.