Health technologies : Woman-initiated protection : SILCS diaphragm
At a glance
Name of project
SILCS Diaphragm
Location
Europe, India, South Africa, Uganda, and the United States.
Commercialization partner
Kessel Marketing & Vertriebs GmbH (Germany)
Research and development partners
CONRAD and their clinical research sites, California Family Health Council, University of Pennsylvania, Aurora Medical Services, University of Washington, and Queens University Belfast.
International research partners
Kohn Kaen University, Department of Community Nursing (Khon Kaen, Thailand); MatCH, formerly Reproductive Health Research Unit (Durban, South Africa); Profamilia (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic); Women’s Global Health Imperative, RTI International, University of California (San Francisco, United States); Ashodaya Samithi (Mysore, India); Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Mbarara, Uganda).
Funders
US Agency for International Development (through CONRAD and through the HealthTech Program at PATH), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and others.

