This policy brief highlights the global burden of sexually transmitted infections (STI) on women and adolescent girls, and the need for advocates, implementers, funders, and governments to come together to address the neglected STI crisis to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure a healthier life is in reach for women and adolescent girls worldwide.

Publication date: June 2017

Region: North America and Europe, Global

The series covers the three menstrual health themes—normalizing taboos, menstrual hygiene products (access, affordability, and appropriateness), and disposal systems and access to infrastructure in the Indian context.

Publication date: May 2017

Region: Asia

This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of Sayana® Press, a lower-dose formulation of the contraceptive Depo-Provera®. Sayana Press provides three months of contraceptive protection per dose, and is small, light, and requires minimal training to use—making it suitable for community-based distribution and administration through self-injection. For more information, please visit our Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: March 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) introduction and research fact sheets

This brief provides a clinical overview of the injectable contraceptive Sayana® Press, which contains 30% less depot medroxyprogesterone acetate than the intramuscular presentation of Depo-Provera®. It is administered subcutaneously through the prefilled Uniject injection system, an autodisable injection device. For more information, please visit our Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: March 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) introduction and research fact sheets

This document was created to support ministry of health and nongovernmental partners as they develop strategies to introduce and scale up Sayana Press (generic: DMPA-SC in Uniject) to increase contraceptive options and access. Available in English and French, the publication provides practical guidance based on results, evidence, and learning from the pilot introductions of Sayana Press in four countries in Africa. For more information, visit PATH's Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: January 2017

Region: Global

From 2014 to 2016, PATH coordinated pilot introduction of the subcutaneous injectable contraceptive Sayana Press in Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, and Uganda. These materials feature guidance for monitoring Sayana Press introductions, monitoring results, and lessons learned, which can help inform contraceptive introduction programming for Sayana Press and other methods. For more information, please visit our Sayana Press introduction and research page.

Publication date: January 2017

Region: Africa, Global

This brochure outlines PATH's work in Senegal. It describes our approach and outlines key areas of focus, including malaria elimination, strengthening health systems, responding to emerging health threats, improving reproductive health, and combatting noncommunicable diseases.

Publication date: January 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Country brochures

This brochure outlines PATH’s work to improve health in Uganda. Key areas of focus include cervical cancer prevention, detection, and treatment; vaccines and immunization, including supply chain improvements; advocacy to improve the quality and availability of health care services; and introduction of Sayana® Press, a popular new form of injectable contraceptive.

Publication date: January 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Country brochures

The contraceptive Sayana® Press, which is small, light, and requires minimal training to use, is suitable for community-based distribution as well as administration through self-injection. PATH and partners have coordinated country-led introductions of Sayana Press in sub-Saharan Africa and are conducting research on the impact of Sayana Press offered through a range of delivery channels, including self-injection. For more information, please visit our Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: January 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) introduction and research fact sheets

In lower-income countries, women want to manage their fertility, but lack access to safe and effective contraception. PATH is working with the governments of Senegal and Uganda to research an option: self-injection of Sayana® Press. Results from the first study in Uganda indicate that most women can self-inject with training. For more information, please visit our Reproductive Health Global Program website.

Publication date: January 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Sayana Press (DMPA-SC in Uniject) introduction and research fact sheets

This website about PATH’s HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis global program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Global

Part of series: Program websites

This website about PATH’s India country program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Asia

Part of series: Program websites

This website about PATH’s Reproductive Health global program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Global

Part of series: Program websites

The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition is a global partnership of public, private, and nongovernmental organizations dedicated to ensuring that all people in low- and middle-income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure their better reproductive health.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Global

Part of series: Websites

RHO Cervical Cancer is an online resource for health program managers and decision-makers seeking to prevent cervical cancer in low-resource settings. The site contains information about human papillomavirus and cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening and treatment, and the role of vaccination in cervical cancer prevention.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Global

Part of series: Websites

This website about PATH’s Tanzania country program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Africa

Part of series: Program websites

This website about the technologies for reproductive health work within the Technology Solutions program provides an overview of the group and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Global

Part of series: Program websites

PATH’s Vaccine Resource Library (VRL) seeks to gather the world’s best immunization resources in a single, easy-to-use website. The VRL offers a wide variety of high-quality, scientifically accurate documents and links on specific diseases and topics in immunization. It is geared for health professionals in the developing and industrialized worlds, as well as for journalists, policymakers, community leaders, parents, and others interested in vaccine-related resources. The resources found on the VRL are collected from a variety of sources, including news media, scientific journals, and leaders in public health.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Global

Part of series: Websites

This website about PATH’s Vietnam country program provides an overview of the program and its featured projects. See other PATH program websites.

Publication date: 2017

Region: Asia

Part of series: Program websites

PATH conducted a landscape analysis of cervical cancer screening in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to clarify opportunities for HPV testing as a primary cervical cancer screening method in these countries. We conducted stakeholder interviews and meetings in each country to discuss the decision-making process for test introduction, potential advantages of HPV testing, and anticipated barriers to introduction and ways to overcome them.

Publication date: December 2016

Region: Africa