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Home » Innovations » 1811-21088

A long-acting contraceptive implant designed for safe, accurate administration by community health workers in low- and middle-income countries

Ethiopia 003

Ethiopia 003

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Start Date: 15/08/2018- End Date: 15/08/2019


The SubQ Assist is a long-acting form of contraception that was designed to facilitate task-shifting of insertion to community health workers (CHWs), by ensuring safe, accurate administration with minimal training, dramatically changing the availability of implants to under-served women in low- and middle-income countries. This project will conduct a clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of the device, while proceeding through the FDA regulatory process.

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  • Ethiopia 003
  • Presenting the SubQ Assist to a group of community health workers in a rural clinic in Rwanda
  • Presenting SubQ Assist to collaborators at St. Paul's Hospital in Addis Ababa to better understand stakeholder requirements
  • The SubQ Assist
  • Doctors and nurses at a rural clinic in Ethiopia review an early prototype of the SubQ Assist to provide design feedback
  • Doctors at St. Paul's Hospital in Addis Ababa provide critical design feedback on an early SubQ Assist prototype

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    Program

    Transition to Scale

    Institution

    University of Michigan

    Institution Country

    United States

    Implementation Country

    Ethiopia

    Implementation Region

    Sub-Saharan Africa

    Priority

    Family Planning, Reproductive Health

    Platform

    Community Health Worker Training, Medical Device, Task-shifting

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