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Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers

WHO’s global family planning handbook provides high-quality, up-to-date guidance for health-care professionals working in low- and middle-income countries.

Institutional author(s): World Health Organization (WHO)
Publication date: June, 2018

Guide Web page

Checklist for Screening Clients Who Want to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN)

The DMPA/NET-EN checklist consists of questions designed to identify medical conditions that would prevent safe DMPA/NET-EN use or require further screening and assess whether a client might be pregnant. It also provides guidance and directions based on clients’ responses.

Institutional author(s): FHI 360
Publication date: June, 2017

GATHER Guide to Counseling

This 32-page publication outlines the GATHER model of family planning counseling, which has been successfully used for nearly two decades and is based on the elements described including tips, illustrations, techniques, technical information, and charts.

Institutional author(s): Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (JHU CCP)
Publication date: December, 1998

Training Resource Package DMPA-SC and self-injection modules

The Training Resource Package (TRP) for Family Planning offers curriculum components and tools for trainers to design, implement, and evaluate family planning and reproductive health training. The TRP website includes training information and materials for a wide range of family planning methods.

The TRP’s Progestin-Only Injectable module includes sessions V and VI which are focused on DMPA-SC and self-injection, as well as a number of related handouts and resources. The module was developed for training physicians, nurses, and midwives and other health care providers who offer Progestin-Only Injectable Contraception (“injectables”).

 

Institutional author(s): USAID, World Health Organization (WHO), UNFPA
Publication date: 2022

Training supply recommendations for DMPA-SC rollout

DMPA-SC is a three-month injectable contraceptive that is easy to use and uniquely suited for self-injection. Demonstration and practice injections are a key part of training programs for both health workers and self-injection clients. Based on lessons learned in five countries, this memo summarizes PATH’s recommendations regarding devices for injection demonstration and practice, injection practice models, and waste disposal.

Institutional author(s): PATH
Publication date: March, 2022

Counseling for Choice

Counseling for Choice (C4C) is an evidence-based approach to contraceptive counseling that supports clients to decide which method is right for them. By addressing many of the root causes of unmet need for contraception and discontinuation, C4C aims to change how providers and clients participate in voluntary family planning (FP) counseling discussions. The approach comprises a thorough training in C4C techniques and the use of the Choice Book for Providers, a job aid and visual tool providers use with clients during counseling sessions.

Institutional author(s): Population Services International (PSI)
Publication date: 2021

Guide Counseling for Choice website

Supportive supervision checklist for DMPA-SC self-injection programs

This checklist is a customizable tool that can be used to monitor Subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC, Sayana® Press) contraceptive self-injection programs and health worker practices. The questions can be adapted as needed to align with local program designs and guidelines. To access the MS Word version of this tool in English or French, please email FPoptions@path.org.

Institutional author(s): PATH
Publication date: August, 2020

Tool Supportive supervision checklist for DMPA-SC self-injection programs

DMPA-SC self-injection job aid and reinjection calendar for clients

This instruction sheet (job aid) and calendar are designed to help support clients learning to self-inject DMPA-SC.

Institutional author(s): PATH
Publication date: 2018

Reinjection timing recommendations for DMPA-SC

PATH developed this fact sheet in response to questions about the recommended reinjection time frames for subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC). This document summarizes the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for reinjection timing. The brief also explains why clients living with HIV, including those using antiretroviral therapies, can use DMPA on the same schedule as any other client.

Institutional author(s): PATH
Publication date: 2017