UNFPA - Publications: Essential Supplies

Publications: Essential Supplies


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Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention (2008)

UNFPA has been tracking donor support for contraceptives and condoms since 1990. This annual report for 2008 is intended to enhance coordination among partners at all levels and to continue progress toward universal access to sexual and reproductive health, as set forth in the ICPD Programme of Action and, subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals.
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Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Supplies

Joint ACP/UNFPA/EC Programme in Conflict and Post-Conflict Countries

In 2006, the European Commission, in a partnership agreement with the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), contributed nearly € 15 million to help UNFPA provide equipment and supplies for obstetric and maternal health in 17 ACP countries in conflict or post-conflict situations. The programme succeeded in reducing shortfalls and improving access to contraceptives and other reproductive health commodities, as well as building governments' capacity to plan and manage their reproductive health commodity supply systems.
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Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers

Evidence-based Guidance Developed Through Worldwide Collaboration

This handbook, one of the World Health Organization's Family Planning Cornerstones, provides evidence-based guidance developed through worldwide collaboration. It offers clinic-based health care professionals in developing countries the latest guidance on providing with the full range of contraceptive methods.
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Myths, Misperceptions and Fears Addressing Condom Use Barriers

The purpose of the booklet is to provide factual information that can be used to foster a positive attitude towards condom use. The message is kept simple and focused on responding to common, reoccurring myths, misperceptions, and fears related to condoms and condom use.
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Donor Support for Contraceptives and Condoms for STI/HIV Prevention (2007)

This report, which is prepared on an annual basis, provides a detailed look at the contraceptive supplies provided by donors. Based on data collected by UNFPA's Commodity Management Branch since 1990, the report presents information on the type, quantity and total cost of contraceptives donors have been supplying to reproductive to health programmes in developing countries over the years. Besides presenting a detailed analysis of this information by donor, region and method, the report also analyses trends in donor funding over the last decade and compares the supply with estimated needs.
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Female Condom: A Powerful Tool for Protection

Although the female condom has been on the market for more than ten years, the supply and adoption of this device, which protects against both pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, is still too low to have an impact on the AIDS epidemic. This publication, a follow up to the 2005 Global Consultation on the Female Condom, answers key questions about the female condom. 
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Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack

This resource pack provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services.
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Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health

This revised Interagency List of Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health presents the current international consensus on rational selection of essential reproductive health medicines.
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Preparing for the Introduction of HPV Vaccines

Policy and Programme Guidance for Countries

This guidance is intended to alert a broad array of stakeholders -- in sexual and reproductive health, immunization, child and adolescent health, and cancer control programmes -- to some of the key issues surrounding the upcoming introduction of HPV vaccines against cervical cancer. In particular, it highlights the contributions that national immunization programmes, sexual and reproductive health programmes, and cancer control programmes can make in preparing for national introduction of the vaccines in the context of the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy.
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Essential Medicines for Reproductive Health:

Guiding Principles for Their Inclusion on National Medicines Lists

In addition to providing a list of essential reproductive health supplies, this guidebook outlines the steps necessary for including reproductive health medicines on country-level lists of essential medicines. It also highlights the consequences of poor reproductive health and the importance of devoting resources to its betterment and reviews the concept of essential medicines lists and their significance.
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