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Nov 15, 2022, 5 tweets

👉WHO releases important updates to its Family Planning Handbook 🔖

⏭providing health workers and policymakers with the most updated information on contraceptive options.

Know more:🔗bit.ly/3g8MGdQ

The updated manual contains 👇

📍practical measures that support the continuity of family planning services during epidemics

👉including wider access to self-administered contraceptives, & direct distribution of contraceptives through pharmacies.

🔗bit.ly/3g8MGdQ

👍For the first time, this edition of the Handbook includes a dedicated chapter to guide family planning services for women & adolescents at high risk of HIV.

🔗bit.ly/3g8MGdQ

Everyone has the right to a wide range of safe and effective contraceptive methods so they can choose what works best for them.

✔Access to family planning services empowers women and improves health.

#SelfCare interventions can make it easier to access and use #contraception as well as plan fertility.

A growing range of options include
➡️Condoms
➡️Contraceptive pills
➡️Some diaphragms
➡️Spermicides
➡️Self-injectables

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