Abstract
As a safe, effective, and easy-to-use “all-in-one” injectable, DMPA-SC is poised to increase access to family planning and improve the method mix for women around the world. DMPA-SC can be provided through community-based services, pharmacies, or drug shops—and even by women themselves through self-injection, increasing their control over contraceptive needs. With so many different stakeholders potentially interested in DMPA-SC, its introduction and integration can benefit from a total market approach (TMA) to improve coordination, implementation, and scale-up. TMA has gained global traction as a process to understand and coordinate the actors providing family planning products and services—and to influence market-shaping interventions among the public and private sectors.