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WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria Wheel

This wheel contains the medical eligibility criteria for starting use of contraceptive methods. It is based on the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 3rd edition and its 2008 Update, one of WHO’s evidence-based guidelines. See how the wheel works.

Featured Module: COCs

This module on Combined Oral Contraceptives (COCs) is designed for the providers in developing countries. Get presentation slides, handouts, and more.

Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers

The materials in the Training Resource Package are based on the technical guidance found in the Global Handbook. Translations, job aids, and more are available at www.fphandbook.org.

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The Training Resource Package for Family Planning (TRP) contains curriculum components and tools needed to design, implement, and evaluate training. It offers essential resources for family planning (FP) and reproductive health trainers, supervisors, and program managers. The entire package is designed to support up-to-date training on family planning and reproductive health.

The TRP was developed using evidence-based technical information from World Health Organization (WHO) publications:

Read more: About the TRP

Get started: Quick Start Guide

Latest Updates

Training Resource Package in Family Planning: a generic tool to be used by trainers of health care providers

On Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 between 9:55 and 11:25 AM in Hall 9 A, representatives of WHO, USAID and IPPF will present a new training resource package designed to be used and adapted by trainers of health care providers. The panel will be chaired by Dr. Nuriye Ortalyi, Senior Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer at UNFPA. Speakers will include:
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Contraceptive Implants

The Implants module is designed for the providers in developing countries who most often are tasked with providing FP services—primarily nurses and nurse-midwives, as well as primary care physicians—and assumes trainees will have at minimum level of clinical training.
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Combined Oral Contraceptives (COCs)

This module on Combined Oral Contraceptives (COCs) is designed for the providers in developing countries who most often are tasked with providing FP services—primarily nurses and nurse-midwives, as well as primary care physicians—and assume trainees will have at minimum a nurse’s level of clinical training. Although the module can be used for Community Health Workers (CHWs), they would need basic literacy skills.
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Welcome to the TRP!

This website offers curriculum components and tools for trainers to design, implement, and evaluate family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) training.

All materials can be downloaded for free, and you may adapt or translate them for your own work. If you do use or adapt these materials, please let us know!

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