Tools for advocacy and communications to increase contraceptive access and options

DMPA-SC is transforming contraceptive access, use, and choice for women and adolescent girls. Advocates play an important role in making sure their country’s policies and funding support access to a broad method mix, including options like DMPA-SC and self-injection.

The Injectable Access Collaborative’s DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack is designed to accelerate your advocacy efforts. It consists of evidence-based materials for advocates to use both for their own strategy development and for direct advocacy with decision-makers. Available in English and French in PDF, Word, and PowerPoint formats, materials are customizable and unbranded so that you can tailor them to your country context. Advocacy Pack for Subcutaneous DMPA. Product brand name Sayana Press.

This customizable slide deck template from the DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack provides a brief description of DMPA-SC and its benefits; an overview of evidence on how the product expands access through multiple delivery channels; and illustrative policy and advocacy gaps and recommendations for country decision-makers. Available in PowerPoint and PDF formats.

Using simple messages, this DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack case statement describes reasons why DMPA-SC is a valuable and game-changing addition to a broad contraceptive method mix.

This DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack brief details the strong body of evidence and experience with self-injection of DMPA-SC, including how the practice can reduce access-related barriers, improve contraceptive continuation, and enhance women’s autonomy.

This DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack brief offers quick facts on the benefits of DMPA-SC; the product’s potential for empowering women and adolescent girls; the product’s availability; and how subcutaneous DMPA is different from intramuscular DMPA (DMPA-IM).

These DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack briefs outline existing evidence on DMPA-SC grouped into top-line messages featuring data from different countries. Several “spotlight” handouts on specific topics can be paired with the summary brief as needed. All handouts can be printed and distributed directly to decision-makers.

This DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack brief summarizes recent evidence from African countries on the costs and cost-effectiveness of DMPA-SC. Key findings include that DMPA-SC may help reduce service delivery costs by catalyzing expansion of channels closest to women and that self-injected DMPA-SC is cost-saving as compared to clinic-administered DMPA-IM when accounting for costs to women and health systems.

This DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack brief offers concise, evidence-based information to help answer common questions and dispel myths about injectable contraception.

This DMPA-SC Advocacy Pack brief helps you understand the terms surrounding DMPA injectables to inform your messaging and communication.

Progress and Potential of Self-Care: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

The momentum around self-care is building through an array of self-care practices, policies, and interventions worldwide. This report aims to take stock of the SRH self-care field and document its progress. It is intended to provide a resource for global and national advocacy, to inform implementation of self-care guidelines, and to link the reader to evidence and learning exchanges. It includes case examples describing the process of introducing and scaling up DMPA-SC self-injection in Malawi and Nigeria.