News tags: Reproductive Health

Integrating End-User Research in MPT Product Development and Commercialization Strategies: Post-Webinar Discussion

July 5, 2022

The seventh webinar in the “Let’s Talk MPTs” Discussion Series featured end-user researchers, product developers, and marketing experts with extensive experience in MPT R&D. The presentations centered discussion around challenges and strategies for conducting end-user research in the early stages of product development, as well as utilizing the findings to effectively inform product development and commercialization strategies. Following the webinar, our esteemed panelists were given the opportunity to elaborate on the thoughtful questions posed by audience members.

Building on the Self-Care Movement: Advances in Sexual and Reproductive Health

July 28, 2021

Most people would say they’re familiar with the concept of self-care. Dominating the self-care space are multi-step skincare routines, bubble baths, gratitude journals, smoothies, cleanses and countless other low-cost, self-pampering activities usually offering immediate physical and emotional benefits. Colloquially, self-care has come to typify a handful of popularized behaviors and trends, but it also holds a much larger potential to empower autonomy over our well-being at both an individual and preventative level. 

5 Simple Ways to Celebrate Women and Gender Equality

March 8, 2021

We join the world in celebrating International Women’s Day by calling out all MPT champions who work to provide women everywhere with more product choices designed to simultaneously prevent HIV, STIs, and/or pregnancy so women can manage their reproductive health and futures. We choose to challenge barriers to safe, effective, and affordable reproductive health access […]

Secretariat launches IMPT Advisory Council

May 25, 2018

We are pleased to announce the launch of the IMPT Advisory Council – a group tasked with providing strategic guidance for the IMPT network, with a particular emphasis on sustainability and new stakeholder engagement. The formation of the Advisory Council comes on the cusp of a new era for the MPT field and the IMPT. […]

FROM THE PIPELINE | Why women-centered MPT development matters

April 3, 2018

Incorporating what women want into new sexual and reproductive health products is essential We at PATH make it our business to reflect on the elusive topic of ‘what women want’—in terms of protection options in their sexual and reproductive lives. Not surprisingly, the answer is complex. Women want and need different things at different stages […]

FROM THE PIPELINE | A long-acting multipurpose prevention ring to help protect against HIV and unintended pregnancy

March 13, 2018

Leveraging its experience developing the first vaginal ring and long-acting product shown to help prevent HIV, the nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides is now developing a three-month vaginal ring designed to reduce women’s HIV risk and prevent unplanned pregnancy. This innovative multipurpose prevention technology would offer women a discreet option to protect their sexual and […]

Striving for a worry-free Valentine’s Day…and every other day

February 14, 2018

“It finally happened! We had sex! And how romantic that it was on Valentine’s Day, right?” Jen, one of the first friends I made in college, could barely contain herself as she shared this news while walking with me to the university café. She then hesitated, “The only thing is, he didn’t have a condom. […]

ICYMI: Discussion on end-user research for MPT R&D

December 21, 2017

At this point, we do not likely need to convince you that if you are aiming to develop and introduce an MPT product, incorporating end-user research into the process is a good idea, especially if you want it to have a positive public health impact. We at the IMPT Secretariat are delighted that end-user research […]

MPTs 101: Why youth providers need to know this term

November 13, 2017

If you are an advocate for youth health and wellbeing, you need to know about multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs) – innovative tools on the horizon to address a gap in the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls. It’s a long name, but there’s a reason behind that. First, these tools are called multipurpose prevention because they simultaneously […]