SPARHCS - Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security

5. Further Reading

Ashford, L. 2002. Securing Future Supplies for Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Prevention. Washington, D.C.: MEASURE Communication/Population Reference Bureau. (http://www.prb.org/pdf/SecFutureSupplies_Eng.pdf). [A short policy brief that describes the growing gap in contraceptive supplies and actions needed to bridge the gap.]

Caro, D., with Schueller, J., Ramsey, M., and Voet, W. 2003. A Manual for Integrating Gender into Reproductive Health and HIV Programs: From Commitment to Action. Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau (for the USAID Interagency Gender Working Group). (http://www.phishare.org/files/1683_ManualIntegrGendr.pdf). [Orients program managers and technical staff on how to integrate gender concerns into program design, implementation, and evaluation.]

Deliver Project/John Snow, Inc. and Policy Project/Futures Group International. 2004. Contraceptive Security Index 2003: A Tool for Priority Setting and Planning. Arlington, VA: Deliver Project/John Snow, Inc. (http://deliver.jsi.com). [An updated and revised tool for measuring a country's level of contraceptive security and monitoring it over time.]

Family Planning Logistics Management/John Snow, Inc. 2000. Programs that Deliver: Logistics' Contributions to Better Health in Developing Countries. Arlington, VA: Family Planning Logistics Management/John Snow, Inc. [First published document to introduce and describe the concept of contraceptive security, providing an overview of "how to do logistics" within a broader, customer-centered perspective of how quality logistics programs benefit health and family planning programs.]

Finkle, C. 2003. Ensuring Contraceptive Supply Security. Outlook Vol 2, No 3. Seattle, WA: PATH. (http://www.path.org/files/eol20_3.pdf). [Discusses the global status of contraceptive funding, causes of shortages, challenges to contraceptive security, and steps being taken to improve coordination at country and global levels.]

Setty-Venugopal, V., Jacoby, R., and Hart, C. 2002. Family Planning Logistics: Strengthening the Supply Chain. Population Reports Vol 30, No 1. Baltimore, MD: Population Information Program/Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (http://www.jhuccp.org/pr/j51edsum.shtml). [Reviews the essentials for strengthening contraceptive supply chains.]

Sine, J. and Sharma, S. 2002. Policy Aspects of Achieving Contraceptive Security. Policy Issues in Planning and Finance No 1. Washington, D.C.: Policy Project/Futures Group International. (http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/policyissues/PI_Eng.pdf). [An overview of contraceptive security needs in awareness raising, advocacy, policy dialogue, planning, building an information base, and capacity building.]

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). 2001. Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change. A Global Call to Action. New York, N.Y.: UNFPA. (http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/344_filename_global_call.pdf). [Proposes a global strategy for reproductive health commodity security that calls upon a variety of partners to undertake focused and coordinated work, principally in advocacy, national capacity building, and sustainability.]

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). 2001. Reproductive Health Commodity Security: Partnerships for Change. The UNFPA Strategy. New York, N.Y.: UNFPA. (http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/133_filename_strategy.pdf). [Describes UNFPA's contribution to the strategy outlined in its global call to action for reproductive health commodity security.]

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). 2002. Reproductive Health Essentials: Securing the Supply. New York, N.Y.: UNFPA. (http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/39_filename_securingsupply_eng.pdf). [An overview of reproductive health commodity security, focusing on contraceptives for family planning, condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention, ensuring supplies in disaster and conflict situations, and UNFPA's contributions.]

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and World Health Organization (WHO). 2003. Essential Drugs and Other Commodities for Reproductive Health Services. New York, N.Y.: UNFPA, Geneva: WHO. (http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/198_filename_commodities_rhs.pdf). [A draft discussion document intended as a guide regarding which essential commodities are necessary for quality reproductive health care.]

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). 2004. Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons. Washington, D.C.: USAID. (http://www.maqweb.org/pnacw660.pdf, http://www.maqweb.org/pnacw661.pdf, http://www.maqweb.org/pnacw662.pdf, http://www.maqweb.org/pnacw663.pdf, http://www.maqweb.org/pnacw664.pdf, http://www.maqweb.org/pnacw665.pdf). [Provides practical "how to" information and examples to help countries and their development partners plan and implement activities for contraceptive security.]

In addition, a set of reports was produced for the 2001 meeting, "Meeting the Reproductive Health Challenge: Securing Contraceptives and Condoms for HIV/AIDS Prevention," held in Istanbul. The reports were produced by the Interim Working Group on Reproductive Health Supplies (IWG), a collaborative effort of John Snow, Inc. (JSI), Population Action International (PAI), the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), and Wallace Global Fund. The full set can be found at http://www.populationaction.org/resources/publications/commodities/. Individual titles are:

Overview: The Need for Security in Reproductive Health Supplies. [An overview of reports in the set.]

Meeting the Reproductive Health Challenge: Securing Contraceptives, and Condoms for HIV/AIDS Prevention. Istanbul, Turkey, 3-5 May 2001. Report on the Meeting. [An account of the proceedings of the Istanbul meeting.]

Contraceptive Projections and the Donor Gap. [One of the first and most widely cited analyses to draw attention to the financing gap for contraceptives and condoms.]

Donor Funding for Reproductive Health Supplies: A Crisis in the Making. [Profiles bilateral and multilateral donors' reproductive health commodity assistance programs, specifically for contraceptives.]

Financing Contraceptive Supplies in Developing Countries: Summary of Issues, Options, and Experience. [A review of options to increase government, donor, household, and private sector financing.]

Gauging Awareness, Assessing Concern: Focus Group Findings on Reactions to Contraceptive Supply Shortages. [Presents the results of four focus groups held with attendees of the "Beijing+5: Women 2000" conference to gauge awareness of and concern about impending shortages of donated and subsidized contraceptive supplies, and to explore ideas for addressing them.]

Defining Reproductive Health Supplies: A Survey of International Programs. [Based on a survey of 64 organizations, develops a working list of supplies that health professionals consider essential to reproductive health and family planning services in developing countries.]

Contraceptive Security: Toward a Framework for a Global Assessment. [First effort at creating a contraceptive security index for countries].

Country Perspectives on the Future of Contraceptive Supplies. [Based on a survey of family planning programs in 13 countries, describes developing country perspectives on current and future contraceptive supply issues, including trends in commodity forecasting, funding, procurement, and delivery, and donor coordination.]

Issue Profiles: Lessons Learned from Five Countries. [Describes lessons learned, with case profiles, in five issue areas: donor phase-out, funding for countries in crisis, procuring supplies, delivering quality products, health sector reform.]

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