This kit has been developed to support the provision of Sexual and Reproductive Health services by community-level healthcare providers.

It is intended for use by health staff and community workers in their distribution of female condoms within their target community and where possible, at all health service delivery levels. It therefore contains disposable items for distribution.

Context of use 

Adapted from UN Population Fund (UNFPA) guidance, this kit is a complementary kit to the Community-level/health post kits intended for use by service providers delivering SRH care at the community health-care level kit series (UNFPA, 2019).

Together these kits have been specifically developed to expediate the provision of vital Sexual and Reproductive healthcare in acute humanitarian settings, primarily within Low and Middle income countries. They may also be useful to services addressing primary healthcare needs in higher income countries during certain circumstances (e.g. natural disasters). 

This kit has been designed to complement the Male Condoms, Distribution Kit in settings where the female condom was also used as a method of contraception prior to the humanitarian emergency. 

Scaling 

This kit has been designed to assist in the provision of a community healthcare level service for a population of 10,000 people over a 3-month period. 

Its contents are based on the assumptions that potentially 25% of the target population are sexually active women, or individuals who may not identify as women but for whom female condoms may be a possible method of contraception (n=2500). Of this group, it is assumed that approximately 1% will use female condoms (n=25) and that each user will need six condoms each month for the 3-month duration of this kit (approximately n=450).

Whilst the contents of this kit also allow for additional variance in demand and wastage if necessary, it remains vital that a stock inventory system is maintained to ensure adequate supplies of contraception are maintained during each 3-month period.

A rapid assessment of the local situation is advised to confirm the need for and suitability of reproductive health kits prior to kit procurement. This will include a review of existing healthcare resources and health facility capacity as well as an assessment of the expected health needs specific to the target population. If possible, this assessment should utilize available pre-crisis demographic and services data.

Sources: 

Inter-Agency Emergency Reproductive Health Kits for Use in Humanitarian Settings, 6th edition (UNFPA, 2019, p.59)

Condom Programming for HIV Prevention. A Manual for Service Providers (UNFPA, WHO and PATH, 2005).

Information materials and guidelines intended to accompany original UNFPA kit: 

• Female condom leaflet, Female Health Company, multilingual (EN, FR, SP) (25 copies)
• Female condom leaflet, Female Health Company, UNFPA Turkey Office (translation),  AR (20 copies)

Please refer to kit attachments for the documents that are currently available for convenient download.

Solution creators

This solution was developed by Stevie-Jade Beeby with contributions from Paula Przybylowicz Vidal and Anuradha Dissanayake.