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

The contents of this kit are intended to be used by health personnel in their provision of care to individuals presenting with symptoms of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and reproductive tract infections.

Context of use 

Adapted from UN Population Fund (UNFPA) guidance, this kit is one part of 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).

For further details of the other kits relevant to the provision of a Community-level /health post service, see the following: Male Condoms, Basic Clean Delivery, Basic Clean Delivery Equipment for Birth Attendants, Oral and Injectable Contraception and Post-Rape treatment.

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

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. 

The contents of the kit are based on the assumptions that 50% of the target population are adults (n=5000) and that 5% of these adults will present with an STI symptom (n=250) during any 3-month period.

Of this estimated number of individuals presenting with a symptom of an STI:

• 20% are expected to have genital ulcer syndrome (n=50)
• 50% are expected to have urethral discharge syndrome (n=125) and
• 30% are expected to have have vaginal discharge syndrome (n=75).

For each of the above syndromes, it is assumed that there will be an additional 25 patients who are children and who may require titrated doses of any pharmaceutical treatment due to their weight and/or age. For example, it is assumed that 10 individuals in this group may weigh less than 30kg and the remaining may weigh 30-45kg.

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.34-35)

Information materials and guidelines intended to accompany original UNFPA kit: 

• Male  condom  leaflet,  EN/FR (80 copies in each language)
• Male condom leaflet, UNFPA Turkey Office, AR (80 copies)
• Male condom leaflet, US Centers for Disease Control, SP (80 copies)
• Female condom leaflet, Female Health Company, multilingual, EN/FR/SP (30 copies)
• Female condom leaflet, Female Health Company, UNFPA Turkey Office (translation),  AR (20 Copies)
• Sexually transmitted infection wall chart, EN/FR/AR/SP (2 in each language)
• Stock card, UNFPA 2019, EN/FR (2 in each language)

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.