1ЭХЭМҮТ, 2МЭБЭЭН
Background: In frame of the World program to develop National Reproductive Health Commodity Security from the United Nations Population Fund, the project for sustained supply of reproductive health medicines and devices has been ongoing in Mongolia since 2008. This program aims to support the development and implementation of the strategy, which was designed to create a sustained supply of medicines and devices necessary to reproductive health and family planning in the country. Under the evaluation methodology developed by the UNPFA, the fourth evaluation research is conducted in 2013 on technical and financial supports from the UNPFA. This paper presents the availability of modern contraceptives at service delivery points.
Materials and methods: The method of data collection was descriptive, and cross-sectional in design. A total of 176 SDPs comprised by the government and NGO’s were randomly selected from all regions of the country.
Results: In this survey, 97.7% of the SDPs provided at least 3 types of modern contraceptive methods and the result of accessing primary SDPs supply were increased by 0.8% from the 2012 year’s survey result. However, the secondary level SDPs supplies fell by 2.5%. This result is present in 100% of the countryside and 93.2% of the cities. In secondary level SDPs, the abundance of clients and the insufficient supply of drugs affect the demand. By National guidelines, in the medical health centre of a soum, there must be four modern contraceptive methods available (male condoms, oral pills, injectabless and IUD). These were available in 96.2% of medical health centres in a soum. In family health centres there must be three modern contraceptive methods available (male condoms, oral pills, and injectables). We found that 92.7% of family health centres provided all three contraceptives. 100% of all three contraceptives were found in rural family health centres, but only 86.6% in city family health centres.
Conclusion: In Mongolia, the availability of modern contraceptive methods is stable in reproductive health service delivery points.
