The one dollar contraceptive set to make family planning easier

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

An agreement has been signed which will make contraceptive injections available to women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries.

It is an injection – but not as you know it.

The special device, with a smaller needle and no traditional syringe, will be sold at just $1 a unit.

An agreement – signed in the past few days – will make the new way of giving contraceptive injections available to women in 69 of the world’s poorest countries.

Source: BBC News (link opens in a new window)

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Health Care
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Base of the Pyramid, reproductive health