While counseling a couple, a provider can encourage the woman to ask her own questions and express her own opinions. The provider also can encourage the man to understand and respect the woman's opinions and choices. Program managers seeking to improve women's situation need to make clear, however, that the program also welcomes women and men who come alone, does not require a husband's permission before serving a woman, and keeps the names of clients and all information about clients confidential, even from spouses. Designing convenient, appealing services. Men cannot share responsibility for reproductive health and family planning if services and information do not reach them.
Few men go to facilities that offer services primarily for women.
Men must be reached in other ways. Male-only clinics can inform men about all family planning methods and provide condoms and vasectomy. Some offer a range of reproductive health services including care for sexually transmitted diseases and infertility. Better service for men at existing clinics. Some conventional family planning clinics have hired male staff, offered hours convenient for men, and offered additional reproductive health services for men.