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Implantable Contraceptives Toolkit
Up-to-date evidence, best practices and related resources to Implantable Contraceptives
Resources for Program Managers
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Program managers may need to develop strategies to meet the rising demand for implants or to introduce new implants into their method mix. The resources listed here can help program managers expand access to implants, introduce new implants, and estimate the costs of implants.
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Description: Good implant services require a competent and well-prepared staff that can perform insertion and removal procedures and can help clients make an informed choice about implants. Programs can prepare providers through competency-based training. Providers can help clients by counseling clients about side effects, screening to make sure clients are eligible to use implants, and answering clients' questions about insertion and removal procedures.
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Meeting Demand for Implants Requires Access and Supply
[from "Implants: The Next Generation" Population Reports issue K-7] Description: The largest barrier to implant use is the high cost of the method. However, manufacturing costs are declining, donors and governments are placing larger orders and negotiating lower prices, and a lower-priced implant has become available. With such efforts to reduce costs, programs are more likely to be able to meet the demand for implants and to offer them to clients at lower prices. -
Equipment for Inserting and Removing Implants
[from "Implants: Tools for Providers" INFO Reports]Description: Program managers can use this list to plan for the equipment their facilities will need to insert and remove implants safely. -
Description: This excerpt provides the medical eligibility criteria for the use of implants, offering guidance on the safety of their use for clients with specific characteristics or known medical conditions. (related link to the entire document: Under Policy Makers)
- Implants: The Next Generation
[Presentation adapted from "Implants: The Next Generation" Population Reports issue K-7]
Description: This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the new implants, how programs can prepare to offer the new implants, and how programs can meet demand for implants. Program managers can save this PowerPoint presentation and adapt it for use in their local situations. - Contraceptive Implants: Safe, Effective, Long-acting, Reversible [Global Health Technical Brief]
Description: This two-page Global Health Technical Brief summarizes the most important information on new contraceptive implants. The brief also identifies key programmatic considerations and lessons learned for family planning programs that will be offering the new implants.
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Which New Implant to Introduce? [from "Implants: The Next Generation" Population Reports issue K-7]Description: Programs evaluate a number of factors when considering which new implants to add to their method mix.
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World Health Organization's Making Decisions About Contraceptive Introduction [WHO]
Description: This field guide is for program managers who are considering adding a new contraceptive method, such as implants, to their method mix. It explains how managers can strategically assess whether it is necessary to introduce a new method.
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Reality Check Family Planning Forecasting Tool User's Guide [EngenderHealth/The ACQUIRE Project]
Description: Reality Check is a forecasting tool that helps national and district level staff to project family planning needs and plan realistically to meet them. The tool can be useful for considering the introduction of new implants. Reality Check could forecast future levels of implant use, commodity needs, and costs of implants at the district and site level. This can help program managers assess whether they have the resources to provide implant services. For more information contact info-acquire@acquireproject.org.
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Spotlight, "From Norplant to Jadelle: Smooth Transition in a Dominican Republic Clinic" [from "Implants: The Next Generation" Population Reports issue K-7]Description: This spotlight describes how a clinic in the Dominican Republic successfully switched from Norplant to Jadelle. Providers adapted quickly to providing the new implants, and clients, although hesitant at first, are now satisfied with Jadelle as an alternative.
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Mother Baby Package: Costing Spreadsheet User Guide [World Health Organization] Description: Estimates the costs of implementing a set of newborn and maternal health interventions at the district level, including the provision of implants.
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