Resource Library

Sources for Sick Child Care in Indonesia (Presentation)

The private sector is the dominant source of care in Indonesia. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This slide deck presents a secondary analysis of the 2017 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey to examine where…

Webinar: On-Ground Activations in India: Creating real-time client engagement (recording)

SHOPS Plus has piloted innovative interpersonal communication activities, also called on-ground activations (OGAs), to improve the demand for reproductive and child health products and services among the urban poor in India. This program has highlighted the importance of OGAs as an essential…

Innovative Financing Approaches for Increasing Pharmacy Inventory

Private pharmacies and drug shops are important providers of family planning products in many low- to middle-income countries. This brief explores ways to expand access to finance for both. It explains the role of private pharmacies and drug shops within the family planning and health commodity…

Feasibility of Private Sector Delivery of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Windhoek, Namibia

With funding from USAID/Washington under the Sustainable Financing Initiative (SFI), the USAID mission in Namibia engaged SHOPS Plus to assess the feasibility of private sector delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Windhoek, Namibia. This assessment informs the design of future efforts…

Sources for Sick Child Care in Indonesia

The private sector is the dominant source of care in Indonesia. Understanding if and where sick children are taken for care is critical to improve case management interventions. This brief presents a secondary analysis of the 2017 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey to examine where…

Understanding the Growth of Pharmacy Chains in Latin America

Governments and donors around the world are seeking to better leverage private pharmacies to increase access to priority health products, including family planning. As they do so, they have encountered challenges related to quality of products, appropriate counseling, and reporting. In sub-…

Moving the needle on health behaviors

Communication plays a powerful role in addressing behavioral barriers and shaping demand for health products and services. Uptake of short-acting methods of contraception and combined use of ORS and zinc to manage child diarrhea remains low in India. The SHOPS Plus program in India worked to…

Entertainment, education, engagement for health

Mass media messages for health compete with a deluge of social marketing and advertising messages that bombard people every day. An effective social and behavior change communication strategy must recognize that mass media alone is inadequate to address the most critical barriers to behavior…

Webinar: Harnessing the total market for contraception - Why it matters where women go (recording)

SHOPS Plus hosted a webinar on "Harnessing the total market for contraception - Why it matters where women go” on May 7, 2020.

The webinar provided an in-depth look at public and private sectors' contributions to family planning and implications for accelerating progress towards national…

Sources for Family Planning in 36 Countries

Understanding where women obtain family planning methods and how sources vary across user groups is essential to improve contraceptive access and ensure an equitable and sustainable future. This brief examines the roles of the public and private sectors in providing contraception and how they…