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DKT Mozambique

last updated Feb 2, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
DKT International
Implementation Partner(s): 
Ministry of Health
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Pilot/startup stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
20-60% (lower to lower-middle), 60-90% (middle to upper-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Revenue (e.g., interest on loans)

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
50-99
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
11 contracted clinics
Other Measures of Scale: 
In the last 6 months of 2011, 2,800 implants and 4,050 copper IUDs were sold.
Summary: 

DKT Mozambique is using an innovative social marketing program to encourage the use of condoms and other contraception.

Program goals/rationale: 

Mozambique remains one of the ten poorest countries in the world. Modern contraceptive prevalence is a very low 12 percent, and only 60 percent of women have knowledge of any method of family planning. The average woman in Mozambique has six children, and the majority of women give birth at least once by the age of 20.

HIV/AIDS is a serious problem in Mozambique. The prevalence of AIDS among pregnant women is about 12 percent, and if the HIV/AIDS incidence rate does not decline, Mozambique’s already low average life expectancy (about 44 years for women and 42 years for men) will drop over the next ten years.

Key program components: 

In 2009, DKT established a family planning program in Mozambique with offices in Maputo, the capital. The first sales of IUDs took place in April of 2009, and DKT began selling condoms and misoprostol through an energetic social marketing campaign by the end of the year. DKT-Mozambique also began marketing oral contraceptives and manual vacuum aspiration kits. In 2009, DKT’s new program provided 12,199 CYPs.

DKT is contracting out with existing clinics to provide family planning services and looking at coupons and voucher systems so when poor women come to our franchised clinics they don’t have to pay out of pocket. Vouchers will bridge what providers would normally charge and what customers want to pay—we are researching price elasticity now.

In 2011, DKT introduced a hormonal implant (Sino II) for the first time via the private sector as well as franchise clinic network. In the last 6 months of 2011, 2,800 implants as well as 4,050 copper IUDs were sold.

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