Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 181-184 , March 2010

Community-based health workers can safely and effectively administer injectable contraceptives: conclusions from a technical consultation

  • John Stanback

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International, Durham, NC 27713, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 919 544 6979; fax: +1 919 544 7261.
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  • Jeff Spieler

      Affiliations

    • USAID, Washington, DC 20523-3600, USA
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  • Iqbal Shah

      Affiliations

    • World Health Organization, Geneva 27, Switzerland
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  • William R Finger

      Affiliations

    • Family Health International, Durham, NC 27713, USA
    • ,
  • The Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives Technical Consultation Participants(see Acknowledgments)

Received 7 October 2009 ,Accepted 12 October 2009.

References 

  1. World Health Organization (WHO) . Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use. Geneva: WHO; 2004;Updated 2008. Available from: http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/family_planning/9241562668index/en/index.html
  2. Harris RP, Helfand M, Woolf SH, Lohr KN, Mulrow CD, Teutsch SM, et al. Current methods of the US Preventive Services Task Force: a review of the process. Am J Prev Med. 2001;20(3 Suppl):21–35
  3. WHO-UNICEF-UNFPA Joint statement on the use of auto-disable syringes in immunization services. Geneva: WHO; 2003;Available from: http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF99/www9948.pdf
  4. United Nations Development Programme. Millennium development goals. Available at http://www.undp.org/mdg/(accessed October 12, 2009)

☆ For more information on the consultation, including background papers and the evidence review, please go to: http://www.fhi.org/en/research/projects/progress/gtl/concba2i.htm.

PII: S0010-7824(09)00452-1

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.10.006

Contraception
Volume 81, Issue 3 , Pages 181-184 , March 2010

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