Resources

This fact sheet describes PATH’s work with partners and countries to address and improve menstrual health in low-resource settings by identifying affordable and appropriate menstrual care products, increasing education and awareness, and advocating for further investment.

Very few women in low-resource settings are able to receive treatment for cervical precancer when they need it. Through the Cryotherapy Market Dynamics Project, PATH undertook an analysis of supply-and-demand factors to determine whether there are market interventions that could ameliorate the current low levels of treatment coverage.

This 80-page report highlights why governments and donors should invest now in research to help determine and implement the most effective and efficient ways to enable adolescents to access and use contraception. The long-term economic and health benefits of increasing access will far outweigh the costs.

For over two decades, PATH has championed technical, systems, and policy innovations to reduce cervical cancer deaths among the world’s poorest women. This brief describes our contributions to advances in cervical cancer prevention and outlines our continued work to expand access to evidence-based primary prevention, screening, and preventive treatment programs.

This issue of Outlook examines the scope and impact of misperceptions about contraception, the science behind debunking misperceptions, and approaches that programs are using to address this persistent problem.Outlook, June 2015.