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FC2 for You is a photo journal of FC2 female condom programmes supported by the Female Health Company. Every two months this photo journal gives our audience a glimpse of the amazing work these agencies do to ensure women and men have access to and enjoy using FC2 to protect themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections such as HIV and Zika.


November 2016
Training dance4life peer educators in Zambia

In light of its partnership with dance4life, the Female Health Company facilitated and funded a master training facilitated by Trainer Manager Maya Gokul in Zambia, for 24 enthusiastic peer educators and Family Health Trust/dance4life Zambia staff.

Wonder whether it’s all about FC2 during a training day? Not at all! Topics covered range from participants’ norms and expectations, Values Clarification in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Communication and counselling for Condom Promotion, to factors contributing to the spread of STIs including HIV, and much more!
A special shout out to Nsofwa Sampa, one of the participants who is blind and living positively. She finished the course as a true FC2 champion, motivated to bringing the knowledge to her community and taking it with her in her education outreach activities.
Attend our World AIDS Day webinar on December 1st!

Join us for our very first special edition webinar 'HIV Prevention: Tips and Tools for Sustainable FC2 Female Condom Programming' on December 1st, World AIDS Day. Be sure to sign up! We will have a range of (guest) speakers talk on the importance of including programming on barrier methods in HIV Prevention, and we will launch our Digital Education Series! This is one not to be missed!
9:00 AM CST/4:00 PM CET/or check the link to view time in your time zone
IAS event World AIDS day

World AIDS Day (WAD) provides the opportunity to reflect, remember and re-engage on HIV issues. On 1 December 2016, in partnership with Groupe SIDA Geneve, the International AIDS Society (IAS) will host a special WAD event in the lobby of the IAS to raise awareness about HIV for the local community. Red ribbons, male condoms, female condoms provided by FHC, and relevant information about HIV will be distributed during the event. Follow the IAS on WAD and help spread the word starting 1 December #WorldAIDSDay.
Shoutout to James Kato - peer educator from Uganda!                      

Shout out to James Kato, peer educator at Reproductive Health Uganda! He and his team have drafted their own FC instructions with help of FHC’s freely available education material, and it is just beautiful. Outreach programs with peer educators demonstrating how to use a Female Condom. James is a photographer too, so takes pictures for their social media. Great work, James!
 
ZIKA Update
 
The Population Institute published the insightful report ‘Double Trouble’ on the current situation regarding Zika in Latin- and North America (September 2016). Interesting but worrying information includes:
  • As many as 1,65 million childbearing women in Central and South America could become infected with first wave of Zika
  • States in continental US threatened by Zika rank low on reproductive rights and may lack the resources needed to fight Zika + unintended pregnancy is common in many states potentially impacted by Zika
  • Puerto Rico: Current projections: 25% of Puerto Rico’s population will be infected with Zika by the end of the year.
  • Guatemala: lowest rates of contraceptive use in Western Hemisphere. Especially vulnerable is the indigenous population, who already had a 39% unmet need for contraception before Zika. 
In addition, CDC has included a very informative page ‘Zika and Sexual Transmission’, including a link to a great resource page that explains the Right Way to Use a Female Condom.
The CDC launches new female condom resource webpage.  Click here to visit the page and to download the “Female Condom Use Fact Sheet”!
#StandUpForYourWomen Zika campaign
 
On Global Female Condom Day 2016, Female Health Company launched the #StandUpForYourWomen Campaign. This year we didn’t only want to celebrate the female condom, we also wanted to do just that little bit extra to make female condoms more accessible to women in need in Zika-affected countries.
‘Starting Global Female Condom Day, September 16th 2016, Female Health Company will donate 1000 FC2 Female Condoms and will offer a free training with one of our Master trainers to every government who makes at least 100,000 FC2 Female Condoms available in their country to its women to take control over fighting Zika.’
The campaign will officially end December 15, 2016. Email info@fc2femalecondom.com for more information.

* The campaign #StandUpForYourWomen applies to new procurement of FC2 female condoms (minimum of 100,000, starting from September 16th, 2016) only. Countries have to be officially recognized as Zika-affected countries by WHO.
 

GFCD event Malawi

The Hunger Project in Malawi organized an amazing belated Global Female Condom Day Commemoration on September 30: “Dance4Demand & Access to female condoms for the Youth”. They organized a walk, female condom advocacy and outreach activities, and a Netball Bonanza!
From THP Press Release: ‘The need for female condoms in Malawi cannot be overemphasized.  Women and girls continue to be at greater risk of contracting HIV than their male counterparts (NAC).  Teenage pregnancy is on the increase, now at 29% from 26% in 2010 and the unmet need for contraceptives among married women is still high at 19% despite reducing from 26% in 2010 (MDHS).  In order to reduce these trends, our youth need to be more empowered and be provided with more prevention methods.  The female condom is one such product and currently it remains the only woman-initiated product approved for dual protection from sexually transmitted infections including HIV and unintended pregnancies’
 
'FC2' by Nepman
We bet you can’t stand still when you hear and see this FC2 jiggle by Nepman! – produced for National Television. On FC2 and pleasure.. Nepman knows what’s good!
AidEx
Female Health Company was at AidEx - the global humanitarian aid event, this year's theme was localisation. What does that mean to us? Training local professionals and peer educators on sexual and reproductive health and rights & the FC2 Female Condom! 
PMC Radio Soap opera FC2/FHC
             
We are very excited about our new partnership with Population Media Center. For their radio soap series in Nigeria they will be including educational messages on the FC2 Female Condom and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Nigeria!
Latin America Partner spotlights 

BOLIVIA:  Reality FC2 female condom registration was renewed in Bolivia for the next 5 years. The NGO responsible for the registration – Prosalud - works with third-party distributors in order to reach pharmacies, clinics and some municipalities.
   
CHILE: Since March 2016, ICW Chile has been organizing and training a variety of audiences, such as women community health promoters, peer educators, youth, and community leaders. ICW Chile has been fundamental for increasing awareness about the FC2 female condom in Chile and we expect that the product will be available for the Chilean population in the near future.
 

BRAZIL: As part of the of Global Female Condom Day celebrations, a Brazilian portal called Catarinas, specialized in feminism and gender, launched a series of articles about the female condom. They include: Female Condom Special: women in their protection control, Female Condom: the obstacles to access the method, Female Condom: MoH representative talks about benefits and challenges, and Female Condom: "after you get it, it is all about love". In the articles, specialists and users share their opinion about the female condom and its importance for guaranteeing women's reproductive and sexual health rights.
National Primary Health Care Conference Australia

Female Health Company went Down Under! We were at the National Primary Health Care Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Together with our wonderful partner Glyde Health - FC2 advocate from the very beginning - we are here to provide information and demonstrations to health care professionals, academics, public and primary health policymakers from all over Australia.
For those who left their business cards to win the FC2-Glyde Pleasure Pack: Watch your mailbox for a pleas(ure)ant surprise!
 
 
New Websites with lots of new features!
 
Did you check out our new website yet? Go to fc2femalecondom.com

The website of Veru Healthcare is also brand new; veruhealthcare.com

What’s new? You can now click on the World Map to find out where you can find FC2, wherever you are in the world. There is also a Research Database, where FHC has gathered both the most relevant and the latest research on female condoms (uptake and acceptability), programming, STIs, and more relevant research on sexual and reproductive health and rights worlwide. New research keeps on getting added, so be sure to come back to it whenever you need a relevant scientific paper. As always, find your freely available training and education materials, now under FC2 Resources.

Special props to our dedicated and creative Marketing Manager Catherine Boland!
We hope you enjoyed our new bi-monthly FC2-for-YOU!-newsletter. From now on it will include updates from the USA as well!
Announcement Merger and President FHC

On October 31st, 2016, Female Health Company successfully completed a transformational merger with Aspen Park Pharmaceuticals (under modified terms). Find the full press release here.

In addition, as of November 15, Denise van Dijk has been assigned as  President of Global Public Health Sector Division of the Female Health Company/ Veru Healthcare.

For any questions regarding the merger, feel free to reach out to us on info@fc2femalecondom.com
FHC is looking for a Business Development Research Consultant US

While FC2 distribution and education has experienced great success and popularity in certain key regions with the U.S., there are states, regions, and communities where FC2 procurement and distribution have not been explored. FHC needs to create an “opportunity” map to gain better understanding where additional programs can be created. Please send an email to info@fc2femalecondom.com for the full job description.
 
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