Recommendations for Contraceptive Use
		Combined Injectable Contraceptives

Recommendations	Rationale
a) CICs (including immediate postpartum and postabortion injections) can be safely administered by appropriately trained service providers (e.g., nurses, midwives, pharmacists, community-based service (CBS) workers, and others), provided that infection prevention measures can be assured.	a) Nurses, midwives, and other community health workers can be appropriately trained to initiate and re-supply injectables. Injectable contraceptives: their role in family planning care. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1990.
b) Under certain circumstances, clients may be provided with the supplies for self-administration or administration by another individual, provided that appropriate storage and infection prevention procedures can be assured and that the woman knows where she can receive supportive services, should she have any problems.	b) Self-administration of injectables for family planning (FP) has not been studied in large scale programs, so clinical judgment about individual circumstances is required.

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