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Join PATH at ICFP 2025

October 28, 2025 by PATH

Primary health care Sexual and reproductive health

PATH is a proud sponsor of the 5th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) as we demonstrate our commitment to health equity by championing integrated family planning and primary health care services. Our approach centers on ensuring that client needs and preferences shape health care systems and technologies.

November 1–7, 2025 | Bogotá, Colombia

PATH and partners have persisted in our efforts to promote a rights-based approach to woman-led, tailored, and integrated service delivery that is essential to realigning the future of family planning (FP) programming.

At ICFP, PATH speakers will share evidence and insights with global colleagues through more than 10 events and scientific presentations. Participants will highlight how we co-create sustainable models for integrated FP and primary health care services that support women and girls to choose the FP method that best fits their needs; develop and facilitate the introduction of self-care FP methods like the single-sized Caya diaphragm and the self-injectable contraceptive subcutaneous DMPA (DMPA-SC); and implement a total market approach that makes a range of FP products accessible to all those who need and want them.

See below for a full schedule of PATH’s events and oral, flash, and poster presentations at ICFP. We have also compiled this list of nearly 70 presentations and events featuring DMPA-SC and self-injection at the conference.

Also be sure to visit us in booth 60–61 in the exhibition hall. We look forward to joining many from the global FP community in dialogue and learning exchange at the conference.

Pre-conference and featured events

Monday, November 3

Scaling success: Celebrating DMPA-SC and self-injection experiences, evidence, and evolution
Host: PATH
Location: Ágora Room EF
Time: 8:30 am–12:00 pm
Registration required

Wednesday, November 5

Fostering Reproductive Autonomy and Choice: Introducing the first generic DMPA-SC product
Host: Incepta Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.
Location: Ágora Room L
Time: 7:00 am—8:30 am
Registration required

Oral presentations

Tuesday, November 4

Providers as gatekeepers to self-care services: The potential role of provider bias in limiting women’s autonomy over their reproductive health care
Session title/grouping: System and user factors affecting access to and use of injectable contraceptives
Presenter: Jane Cover
Time: 10:20 am–11:40 am

Preliminary analysis of non-hormonal diaphragm's cost effectiveness considering real-world tradeoffs among users and business case for private sector distributors
Session title/grouping: Advances in Models & Analytics for FP Commodity Cost & Accountability
Presenter: Priyanka Mysore
Time: 2:45 pm–4:05 pm

Wednesday, November 5

Use of data to Inform decisions in DMPA-SC programming and policies
Session title/grouping: Monitoring policy outcomes in implementation of national self-care guidelines: Rationale and experiences with self-care policy monitoring tools
Presenter: Allen Namagembe
Time: 11:55 am–1:15 pm

Flash presentations

Tuesday, November 4

From red to green: A novel policy data analysis approach to monitor and accelerate introduction and scale up of DMPA-SC and self-injection across 11 African countries.
Session title/grouping: Local and Regional Measurements on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Presenter: Bonnie Keith
Time: 4:20 pm–5:40 pm


Thursday, November 6

“Only a few words are said”: A qualitative study examining informed choice counseling in the context of new contraceptive self-care introduction in Zambia
Session title/grouping: Quality of care in providing new and underutilized contraceptive methods
Presenter: Jane Cover
Time: 11:55 am–1:15 pm

Poster presentations

Tuesday, November 4

How do digital approaches stack up against in-person sessions? An evaluation of family planning training offered via interactive voice response in Uganda.
Session title/grouping: Poster Session 1
Presenter: Barbara Kunihira
Location: Ágora Main Lobby
Time: 10:00 am–11:30 am

Measuring market development for DMPA-SC self-injection: A refined approach for assessing the status of self-injectable contraceptive market development in Benin, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia
Session title/grouping: Poster Session 1
Presenter: Julie Heinsen
Location: Ágora Main Lobby
Time: 10:00 am–11:30 am

Trends in technical assistance requests for DMPA-SC and self-injection scale-up
Session title/grouping: Poster Session 1
Presenter: Priyanka Mysore
Location: Ágora Main Lobby
Time: 10:00 am–11:30 am

Wednesday, November 5

From Innovation to Institutionalization: Integrating Self-Injection Indicators into Uganda’s HMIS
Session title/grouping: Poster Session 5
Presenter: Barbara Kunihira
Location: Ágora Main Lobby
Time: 10:00 am–11:30 am

Policy Shift: Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives through Pharmacies in Uganda
Session title/grouping: Poster Session 7
Presenter: Fiona Walugembe
Location: Ágora Main Lobby
Time: 2:00 pm–3:30 pm

More information about the conference program is available on the ICFP website. We look forward to seeing you there!