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Dr. Jim Shelton's Pearls
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Contraceptive implants are extremely popular in our country. So whenever we get a new supply of implants they are used up in a few weeks. But the high cost of the implants limits the amount we can provide. I’ve heard there is a Chinese Implant that is considerably less expensive. Is that correct?
Yes. Sino-implant (II) (named Zarin® in much of Africa) is extremely similar to the 2-rod implant Jadelle®. It has been used extensively in China and Indonesia and some 6 million have been distributed. It has recently been registered in Kenya And Sierra Leone and FHI is actively helping with registration in quite a few countries (at the moment - Burundi, Dominican Republic, Columbia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe).Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.
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