Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

07/31/2025

The U.S. Government announced plans this month to destroy more than $9.7 million worth of supplies intended for women and girls in low- and middle-income countries.

Destroying these taxpayer-funded contraceptives will fracture and wrest agency, health, and life from women and girls in low- and middle-income countries.

If destruction proceeds, it will not be just hashtag that are incinerated. Women’s health and lives will go up in smoke as well.

Read our full statement here to take action: https://www.rhsupplies.org/news-events/news/rh-alert-the-true-cost-behind-destroying-9-7m-of-contraceptives/

07/10/2025

🎥 RHSC supported our partner GRAFED in 🇧🇯 Benin to:

✅ Build strategic media engagement
✅ Boost the capacity of local advocates
✅ Forge an enduring relationship with the government

The result?
📈 A bigger government commitment to hashtag commodities
💰 An 8-fold increase in the government’s budget allocation for contraceptive supplies!

Want to learn more?
➡️ Watch the full webinar: https://www.rhsupplies.org/activities-resources/webinars/leveraging-media-advocacy-for-domestic-resource-mobilization/

06/30/2025

New? ✨ Underused? 💡 Both? 🔄

📰 Read our blog post about the New/Underused Reproductive Health Technologies (NURHT) Caucus's new approaches to product introduction and scale-up, and don't forget to download the resources: ➡️➡️➡️ https://medium.com/its-about-supplies/beyond-limiting-definitions-30d8c62039e4

06/27/2025

🚨 Introducing RH Alerts

is a new, short-term initiative to provide the reproductive health community with transparent and timely updates related to impacts of wider ecosystem funding and policy shifts.

🔍 What to know:
📬 This resource will curate and share information from RHSC’s members and other global actors
🕒 Ensures the community has the most up-to-date and accurate information
⚠️ Focused on emerging and time-sensitive topics

💡 Why it matters:
🔵 Developed in response to the fast-changing supply ecosystem
🔵 Addresses the critical need for equal access to accurate information
🔵 Will continue for a finite period of time

📄 Find all releases to date on our RH Alerts page: https://www.rhsupplies.org/news-events/rh-alerts/

06/27/2025

🚨 Webinar Alert: Women at the Center:
Insights on Women’s Experience Accessing Maternal Health Commodities in Kenya and Nigeria 🚨

📅 1 July @ 8:00 EDT
🔗 https://rhsupplies-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZMe7lTuUROWidsISFnGPIw #/registration

Despite national commitments to free or subsidized commodities, many women in low- and middle-income countries still face major barriers in accessing these lifesaving medicines.

Join the RHSC Maternal Health Caucus for a powerful webinar featuring findings from a 2024 study led by 60 Decibels and MSD, based on the experiences of 2,000 women in and .

🔍 We'll dive into:

🔵 How women source and pay for essential maternal health commodities
🔵 Differences between public and private care settings
🔵 The impact of out-of-pocket costs on families
🔵 What this means for policy, procurement, and equity

We will be joined by: Achyut Rokkam, Hargun Kaur, Temitayo Erogbogbo

06/27/2025

🔍 What role can Political Economy Analysis (PEA) play in bridging the transition from a financial commitment to the sustainable of commodities?

📘 Our new guest blog by Options Consultancy Services shares a fascinating case study from Kenya which examines the interplay between institutional bottlenecks, the policy environment, and leadership and governance, yielding rich lessons learned.

✨ This is the first in our new Financing Blog Series in which RHSC and its members will explore ✅ best practices, 🧠 insights, 🌍 opportunities, and 💡 innovations that can help inform the path ahead — as we collectively work to transform financing for RH supplies.

🔗 Read the article on our blog:

The Kenya Experience Through a Political Economy Lens

05/28/2025

Happy 🎉!

🩸 What will it take to come together for a ?

💡 Well-functioning !

✅ Market-based approaches to menstrual health are a critical pathway in ensuring that all those who menstruate have access to a wide range of quality, affordable menstrual products.

📃 In celebration of , we are excited to share two newly published resources from our Menstrual Health Supplies Workstream: a theory of change & corresponding brief to help menstrual health advocates and stakeholders better navigate the 'what' and the 'why' behind market-based approaches to menstrual health.

➡️ Learn more: https://www.rhsupplies.org/activities-resources/groups/newunderused-rh-technologies-caucus/menstrual-health-supplies-workstream/

Menstrual Hygiene Day - Global

05/15/2025

💡 A $28 billion opportunity is hiding in plain sight. hashtag markets in low- and middle-income countries are vastly underserved — yet the demand is growing fast. It’s a no-brainer!

➡️ Find out more from this webinar, organized by Global Menstrual Collective: https://www.rhsupplies.org/activities-resources/webinars/market-based-approaches-to-menstrual-health/

The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund

01/29/2025

💡 Register now for our Joint Learning Series: Part 1- Africa Spotlight: Menstrual Product Standards

📅 Date: 4 February
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM ET / 2:00 PM CAT
🔗 https://bit.ly/menstrualhealthinafrica

The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)'s Menstrual Health Supplies Workstream and the African Coalition For Menstrual Health (ACMH) are co-hosting a three-part learning series featuring individuals and organizations working in the region. The learning series will focus on product 📑 and leveraging 📊 for market development.

The first webinar in the series, focused on menstrual products, will feature the following speakers:

🔵 Diana Thompson Nelson, Days for Girls International
🔵 Jenny Acaralp, Swedish Institute for Standards, SIS
🔵 Gerda Mazi Larsson, ISO - International Organization for Standardization; The Case for Her
🔵 Lowri Davies, African Coalition for Menstrual Health Management
🔵 Elijah Kiwanuka, AFRIpads
🔵 Francisca Frimpong, Ghana Standards Authority
🔵 Tanya Dargan Mahajan, Menstrual Health Action for Impact (MHAi)

📅 Date: 4 February
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM ET / 2:00 PM CAT
🔗 https://bit.ly/menstrualhealthinafrica

The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC)'s Menstrual Health Supplies Workstream and the African Coalition for Menstrual Health (ACMH) are co-hosting a three-part learning series featuring individuals and organizations working in the region. The learning series will focus on menstrual produc...

12/19/2024

This year, we celebrated our 20th birthday. 🎂 But what does turning 20 really mean in terms of our service and our 📈 impact?

Happy New Year from all of us at RHSC. We’ll see you in the next decade of our history together!

12/03/2024

🔍 Please join us next week for a webinar introducing RHSC’s new Strategy and learn of the ways YOU can help us shape the next decade of sexual and reproductive health supplies.

📅 Date: 12 December
⏰ Time: 9:30 AM EST / 14:30 GMT / 15:30 CET
🔗 https://rhsupplies-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuc-mtqTwiGNP9nR-yBDT2niG7tb_dS-D2 #/registration

11/27/2024

🎉 Just Released: The 10th Edition of the Family Planning Market Report 📊

Clinton Health Access Initiative & RHSC are delighted to mark this milestone with the launch of a new website and interactive dashboard – https://fp-report.com/ 🌐

Key takeaways: Contraceptive market is growing, as is domestic government funding

📈 17% growth in Couple Years of Protection (CYPs) shipped to the public sector, reaching 131 million in 2023

⚕️ Long-acting reversible methods comprised the majority of CYPs during this period with 64% share in 2023

UNFPA and USAID procurement values reached a five-year high, increasing by 11% from FY2022 to FY2023

💡 Domestic financing is on the rise: 49 countries mobilized funds for contraceptive procurement in 2022/23 – with 25 spending over $1 million
💡The UNFPA Supplies Partnership recorded a 4x increase in government spending from 2020-23 in Partnership countries

📖 Explore the report & dashboard: https://fp-report.com/
🔗 Register for our webinar on December 11th to dive deeper into these findings! https://rhsupplies-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlcOuhrDMrHdIsQMq7qRb1hJNL-tMjDDau #/registration

The Family Planning Market Report has been published annually since 2015 to enhance visibility into the contraceptive commodities market. Specifically, the report provides insights into public-sector procurement of contraceptives.