CGPH FACULTY:Ndola Prata
DATE OF PUBLICATION:August 2011
REGION: Africa
REFERENCE: Prata N, Gessessew A, Cartwright A, Fraser A. Provision of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia through community-based reproductive health agents. Bull World Health Organ. 2011 Aug 1;89(8):556-64. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.086710. Epub 2011 Apr 29.
SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: To determine whether community-based health workers in a rural region of Ethiopia can provide injectable contraceptives to women with similar levels of safety, effectiveness and acceptability as health extension workers (HEWs). Receiving injectable contraceptives from CBRHAs proved as safe and acceptable to this sample of Ethiopian women as receiving them in health posts from HEWs. These findings add to the growing body of evidence supporting the development, introduction and scale up of programmes to train community-based health workers such as CBRHAs to safely administer injectable contraceptives.
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