Contribution of Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) In Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) is recognized as a critical and essential preventive child
survival intervention that effectively complements curative and other child health interventions, with
additional benefits to the mother, family, men, community and the society. It is a key intervention associated
with reduced risk of low birth weight, prematurity and newborn abnormalities and deaths in infants, as well
reducing health risks to mothers after a live birth or abortion, and risks to adolescents. It creates awareness
and increases demand for family planning services which is critical to the continuity, retention and longterm use of family planning For countries to reduce their burden of disease and reach their Millennium
Development Goals. Adding HTSP interventions to their strategies and programs should be considered a
priority because of significant, multiple health benefits for women and babies.