Publications

Below FCMi provides a list of publications relevant to the procurement and supply of female condoms (listed by publication date, newest to oldest). 

• Female Condoms: Recent Momentum and Milestones, produced by PATH, UAFC, CHANGE, and NFCC, November 2013.

• Female condom choices are expanding – new models have low failure rates and are acceptable to users; Roger Pebody; nam aidsmap; 9 October 2013.

• Performance and safety of the second-generation female condom (FC2) versus the Woman's, the VA worn-of-women, and the Cupid female condoms: a randomised controlled non-inferiority crossover trial; Beksinska M.E., Piaggio G., Smit, J.A., Wu, J., Zhang, Y., Pienaar, J., Greener, R., Zhou, Y. and Joanis, C. (2013); The Lancet Global Health, Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2013, p. e146-e152.

• UNITAID HIV Preventatives Technology and Market Landscape, 1st Edition, August 2013.

• Female Condom: Generic Specification, Prequalification and Guidelines for Procurement, 2012, jointly authored by the World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (WHO/RHR), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and FHI360.

• Lessons Learned: Female Condom Repackaging Cuts Cost in Zimbabwe, USAID | Deliver, July 2011

• Acceptability of the female condom in different groups of women in South Africa: A multicentred study to inform the national female condom introductory strategy; Beksinska, M.E., Rees, V.H., McIntyre, J.A. and Wilkinson, D.South Africa Medical Journal 2011; 91 (8), p. 672-8.

•  Access: How do Good Health Technologies get to Poor People in Poor Countries? Laura J. Frost & Michael R. Reich, 2008, Chapter 8: Female Condoms: Access to Dual Protection Technologies (with Beth Anne Pratt)