A biomedical publication that discusses medicine and the healthcare industry.
$1 Contraceptive for World’s Poorest Women
In November 2014, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Pfizer Inc.,
and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) reached an agreement
to make birth control accessible to women in developing countries.
Sayana Press, an injected contraceptive, is sold to distributors for
only $1 per dose. The drug will be sold at little to no cost and
administered readily to women living in sixty-nine countries by
2020. Injection is the preferred method of birth control because it
allows women privacy, ease, and convenience.