Community-Based Providers in Rural Guatemala Can Provide the Injectable Contraceptive DMPA Safely
In Guatemala, the use of modern contraceptives is the second lowest in Latin America. In 2000, the Government of Guatemala launched a programme to expand health-care services to rural areas through community-based health-care providers. Along with other health-care activities, the community-based providers were entrusted with the distribution of oral contraceptive pills and condoms to the people.