What is the result?:
DKT began sales at the end of 2014. We are excited to see the CYP results for 2015.
DKT Tanzania
Country of Operation
Tanzania
Approach
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
- Lower-middle income (20-40%)
- Middle-income (40-60%)
Health focus
- Family planning and reproductive health
- HIV/AIDS
- Maternal, newborn and child health
Summary
DKT will develop innovative outreach, education, and marketing efforts to shift family planning behavior and to expand the contraceptive market.Program goals
Family planning challenges in Tanzania include supply chain stock outs and irregularities, social inhibitions related to religion and culture, and a lack of modern birth control methods and sex education for young girls and adolescents. Tanzania grapples with a serious HIV epidemic– nearly 1.6 million people are infected. Women are particularly affected and comprise over 60% of cases.
DKT Tanzania will respond to these problems by providing a wide range of high-quality contraceptives at affordable prices. Providing method choices, introducing innovative technologies and filling gaps in the supply chain will help serve the total marketplace.
Key program components
DKT is in the early stages of establishing a program in Tanzania. With a population of 44 million, Tanzania is the 6th most populous country in Africa and contains some 1.5 million women with unmet family planning needs. Nearly 45% of Tanzania’s population is under the age of 15, making it one of the world’s youngest countries. A large number of young people will soon face choices about sex and family planning. Women have an average of 5 children and the contraceptive prevalence rate holds steady at 34%.
DKT Tanzania is using social marketing to expand the contraceptive market, providing an affordable, high-quality range of products throughout Tanzania.
Scale
Financials
Reported Results
Related Programs
DKT Indonesia helps decrease infant and maternal mortality and lower HIV infection rates by training and working with midwives and increasing the use of contraception in Indonesia through a dynamic social marketing program called Andalan.
DKT Ethiopia is the leading provider of condoms and contraceptives in Ethiopia, supplying 75% of the condoms and 40% of the oral contraceptives in Ethiopia from 2005 – 2010.
Living goods is an “Avon-like” network of franchised community health promoters who provide health education and earn a living selling essential health products door-to-door at prices affordable to the poor.
DKT Myanmar is in the process of developing programming to address these issues and provide access to a full range of affordable family-planning options.
Marie Stopes Bolivia approaches the subjects of sexual and reproductive health in men and women creatively through the provision of established and mobile services, aiding in the financing of services for low-income families, social marketing and participative, inclusive education.
