During my research in Huancayo, a different story emerged. In the small family planning clinic where I worked, women were consistently requesting
the three-month injection, even when another method was recommended for their particular health-cases. Preference for the injection is not uncommon across the country. The Demographic Health Survey tells us that 64% of women in a relationship have only ever used the injection, compared to only 48% ever-use for the combined pill, but these results do not tell us why that may be (DHS, 2014). There could be a number of practical reasons why women may have been using one method over another, but these cannot be removed from the social and political landscape from which they arise.