Interagency reproductive health kits for crisis situations
The reproductive health kits prepared by UNFPA provide the supplies needed to implement basic reproductive health services during the early phase of a crisis.
The RH kits are designed for a varying population for 3 months
There are 12 kits divided into three blocks:
Block 1: Six kits for use at the community and primary health care level for a population of 10,000 people for 3 months. They contain mostly disposable medical devices and equipment. |
Kit 0 - Administration kit
To facilitate administration and training activities.
Kit 1 - Condoms kit
120 gross (17,280) male condoms with 400 safe sex leaflets;
3.8 gross (540) female condoms with 25 use leaflets.
Kit 2 - Clean delivery kit
200 individual packets containing items and pictorial instruction sheet for home delivery plus material for traditional birth attendants.
Kit 3 - Rape treatment kit
Management of the immediate consequences of sexual violence with appropriate medicines and supplies: basic treatment after a rape and PEP treatment for HIV (including treatment for children).
Kit 4 - Oral and injectable contraception
To respond to women's needs for hormonal contraception.
Kit 5 - Treatment of sexually transmitted infections
To diagnose and treat STIs in people presenting with complaints.
Block 2: Five kits for use at primary health care and referral hospital levels, designed for a population of 30,000 people for 3 months |
Kit 6 - Clinical delivery kit
To perform normal deliveries, repair episiotomies and perineal tears under local anesthetics and stabilize women with obstetric complications (eclampsia and haemorrhage) before transfer to a referral unit, for trained personnel, midwives, nurses with midwifery skills and medical doctors.
Kit 7 - Intra-uterine device kit
To place IUDs either as contraception or as emergency contraception, and to remove IUDs and provide preventive antibiotic treatment, for trained personnel.
Kit 8 - Management of miscarriage and complications of abortion
To treat the complications arising from miscarriage and unsafe abortion, including sepsis, incomplete evacuation and bleeding, for trained personnel.
Kit 9 - Suture of tears vaginal/cervical and vaginal examination kit
To allow vaginal examination and suturing of cervical and vaginal tears, for trained personnel, midwives, physicians, nurses with midwifery skills.
Kit 10 - Vacuum extraction delivery kit
To assist in vaginal delivery by using manual vacuum extraction method to deliver the newborn.
Block 3: Two kits designed for referral surgical/obstetric level for 150,000 people for 3 months. |
Kit 11 - Referral level kit for reproductive health (part A+B)
Medical devices, renewable and equipment and medicines for use at the referral level for caesarian sections, resuscitation of mothers and babies, treatment of complications of sexually transmitted infections, and complications of pregnancy and delivery.
Kit 12 -Blood transfusion kit
To perform safe blood transfusion after testing for HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B and C.
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