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Research in Uganda and elsewhere shows that women can self-administer DMPA-SC safely and effectively, that they like doing so, and that self-injection helps support continued use of injectable contraception.

Family planning leaders can draw from an established base of evidence to integrate DMPA-SC in efforts to address unmet need and increase access to contraception through a range of delivery channels.

Aisha was wearing her blue school uniform and wiping tears from her face. She’d just been vaccinated, but it wasn’t the shot that upset her. She was crying because her mother died of the very disease she was being protected from—cervical cancer.

In 2010, more than 10 million people in Burkina Faso lined up to receive the first licensed doses of MenAfriVac® and changed the course of meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa.