In 2015, under the leadership of USAID, a Technical Working Group was created to better understand the potential of the IUS. Comprised of donors, implementers, manufacturers and suppliers, this group developed a global learning agenda and committed to coordinating efforts to learn from early introductions of the method.
Five years later, the technical working group has evolved to become the much larger Hormonal IUS Access Group. This global consortium—consisting of a Steering Committee of donors and a Partners Group of implementing organizations—is exploring concrete opportunities to sustainably increase access to the hormonal IUS. USAID and UNFPA are working to add the IUS to their global product procurement catalogs. Thanks to the catalytic support of donors like USAID, there is growing interest in supporting intentional and phased scale-up of this method.