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Reproductive Health Supplies Visualizer (RH Viz)

The Reproductive Health Supplies Visualizer (RH Viz) is a series of public-facing dashboards designed to help the RH community see integrated and aggregated supply chain inventory, order, and shipment data.

Institutional author(s): Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)
Publication date: December, 2020

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Global Family Planning Visibility and Analytics Network (VAN)

The Global Family Planning Visibility and Analytics Network (VAN) captures data from multiple sources to improve supply chain visibility. The VAN offers a platform to assess supply needs, prioritize them, and act when supply imbalances loom.

Institutional author(s): Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)
Publication date: December, 2020

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Market Bookshelf

This is an open-access collection of health market literature, featuring documents and related resources needed to understand, develop, and intervene in different global health markets.

Institutional author(s): Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), USAID, William Davidson Institute
Publication date: December, 2020

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Collaboration helps broaden access to Pfizer’s contraceptive, Sayana® Press (medroxyprogesterone acetate)

This press release announces the price reduction of Sayana Press from $1 to $0.85 per dose in qualifying countries.

Institutional author(s): Pfizer, Inc.
Publication date: May, 2017

Brief Collaboration helps broaden access to Pfizer’s contraceptive, Sayana® Press (medroxyprogesterone acetate)

The WHO Collaborative Registration Procedure for Medicines in Developing Countries

This thesis provides an in-depth review of key World Health Organization-led procedures for registering medicines in developing countries, including prequalification, the concept of essential medicines, and collaborative registration.

Institutional author(s): World Health Organization (WHO)
Individual author(s): Stefanie Haas
Publication date: June, 2015

Report The WHO Collaborative Registration Procedure for Medicines in Developing Countries

WHO Prequalification of Medicines Programme: WHO launches the PQP Collaborative Registration Procedure

A concise summary of WHO’s Collaborative Registration Procedure describes the advantages of this program as well as experiences and lessons learned during the launch of this activity in 2012.

Institutional author(s): World Health Organization (WHO)
Publication date: December, 2013

Brief WHO Prequalification of Medicines Programme: WHO launches the PQP Collaborative Registration Procedure

Forecasting Guide for New and Underutilized Methods of Family Planning

This guide provides direction to programs that want to forecast for new and underused methods (NUMs) of family planning. It supports program managers and others involved in forecasting as they plan to introduce a contraceptive technology for the first time in a country and/or position an underused method for scale-up.

Institutional author(s): Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, JSI, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), Population Services International (PSI)
Publication date: June, 2012

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Expanded Product Registration Toolkit

The Product Registration Toolkit helps guide the process of registering health products, like contraceptives, in low- and middle-income countries. The toolkit is a digital collection of adaptable, downloadable resources including:

  • A primer on the basics of product registration
  • A regulatory pathway decision tree
  • Checklists for various stages of the registration process
  • Tools to evaluate and track your registration application
  • Templates of commonly required documents
  • Quick reference glossary

All toolkit resources are available in English and French, with the Product Registration Basics guide in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Institutional author(s): Expanding Effective Contraceptive Options
Publication date: 2023

Contraceptive Innovation Index

To facilitate decision-making around the introduction and scale-up of contraceptive technologies, the Expanding Effective Contraceptive Options (EECO) project, led by WCG Cares in partnership with PSI, and USAID’s Center for Innovation and Impact teamed up to create the Contraceptive Innovation Index. On January 25, 2023, EECO and USAID hosted a webinar on the development and use of this tool; the webinar slides and recording are linked below.

Institutional author(s): Expanding Effective Contraceptive Options, USAID, Population Services International (PSI), WCG Cares
Publication date: 2023

Expanding Access to Contraception through Global Collaboration

This progress report summarizes the work of the DMPA-SC Consortium, a group of public, private, and philanthropic entities that coordinate global support for scale up of DMPA-SC as a contraceptive option.

Institutional author(s): DMPA-SC Consortium, Global Impact Advisors
Publication date: March, 2021