Trained community health workers, including traditional birth attendants (TBAs), safely and effectively administered injectables in northern Mozambique; two-thirds of the women choosing injectables had never used contraception before. Including TBAs in the Ministry of Health’s recent task sharing strategy can improve rural women’s access to injectables and help meet women’s demand for contraception.

Synthesis and interpretation of the long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) removals data underscored the need to strengthen family planning (FP) counseling, particularly on method side effects and use-effectiveness periods, in all client-provider interactions.n Health care providers perceived "the addendum with LARC removal indicators" as easy to use and useful for understanding quality-of-care issues.

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