Global Health Media Project has announced the release of their first set of videos in their family planning series: 13 films on long-acting reversible contraceptive methods, specifically the copper IUD and the implant.

For health workers, the set includes how to counsel clients on these methods, and how to insert an IUD, postpartum IUD, one-rod implant, and two-rod implant. There are two films for women and their partners about the IUD and implant. In addition, they have created brief teaching shorts that show and tell the step-by-step information that is demonstrated in the skills videos.

They will be gradually rolling out the entire series of more than 60 videos in the coming weeks and months.

The films were shot in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Uganda just pre-Covid.  They collaborated with Ipas and Reproductive Health Uganda (IPPF affiliate) to secure clinical sites — and received input in content development from Ipas, UNFPA, WHO, ICM, and Laerdal Global Health.

These videos are available in English now, with French and Spanish available soon through support from Translators without Borders. Perhaps we can explore the possibility of narrating them in Russian as well.

You can watch the videos on the Global Health Media website where they are also available for download:  https://globalhealthmedia.org/videos/

To learn more about the purpose and content of these videos, visit the family planning project page:  https://globalhealthmedia.org/our-projects/family-planning-series/