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Contraceptive social marketing in Nepal: consumer and retailer knowledge, needs and experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Ashoke Shrestha
Affiliation:
New Era, Kathmandu, Nepal
Thomas T. Kane
Affiliation:
Centre d'Etudes de Recherche sur la Population pour le Developpement, Institut du Sahel, Bamako, Mali
Hem Hamal
Affiliation:
Contraceptive Retail Sales Company, Kathmandu, Nepal

Summary

In 1986, a survey was conducted to assess knowledge, health concerns and experience with marketing (retailers) and use (consumers) of Gulaf and Nilocon pills and Kamal vaginal tablets distributed by the Nepal Contraceptive Retail Sales Company (CRS). A sample of 763 consumers of Gulaf, Nilocon and Indian pills and Kamal vaginal tablets, and 361 retailers from a stratified sample of urban medical shops were interviewed. The CRS marketing programme is reaching people who have previously never used family planning; most of the users were practising contraception to limit, not space, births; a high proportion of pill users over 35 smoked; only about a third of CRS pill users had prescriptions or consulted a physician prior to use; CRS training of retailers was found to have increased their knowledge. Recommendations are made for improving communication, education and marketing of CRS contraceptives to ensure their safe and effective use and increase the acceptability of this mode of service delivery.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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