Community mobilization and service strengthening to increase awareness and use of postabortion care and family planning in Kenya.

Objective: To evaluate whether a community engagement and service-strengthening intervention raised awareness of family planning (FP) and early pregnancy bleeding (EPB), and increased FP and postabortion care (PAC) use.

Methods: The intervention was carried out in 3 communities in Kenya over 18months; 3 additional communities served as the comparison group. A pre-post, contemporaneously controlled, quasi-experimental evaluation was conducted independently from the intervention.