Niman Ahmed, a father of two from Tekedem town in Somali Region, is pleased with the results he is seeing from using family planning. “My wife and I are happy and our kids are healthy.” “We are doing well physically, mentally, and financially.” Like Niman,
DKT again pushed the bar higher for product sales and couple years protection (CYP) in 2015. DKT’s national salesforce distributed 59 million condoms, 4 million cycles of oral contraceptive pills and 3.7 million injectable contraceptives, among other products, to Ethiopia’s 13,000+ pharmaceutical and clinical outlets
DKT’s 7th Media Round Table attracted leading journalists from national media, including Wondwossen Tilahun of ETV and Adam Tadesse from 98.1 Fana FM. Entitled, “Techniques in Reporting on Family Planning and STDs: How to Address Cultural and Religious Challenges”, the Round Table Discussion featured a
Keeping workers safe at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project (GERD-P) site is not limited to hard-hats and well-maintained machines. It also requires providing workers the information and products they need to stay safe during non-work hours, including from HIV. DKT Ethiopia, Ethiopian Electric Power
DKT concluded a 27-month campaign to introduce diarrhea treatment kits (DTK) supported by the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) in December 2015. The campaign, which launched the LemLem Plus DTK combining oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc into a single package, resulted
Much has been made of Ethiopia’s dramatic increase in contraceptive use, and rightly so. In just 15 years, the country went from having one of the lowest modern contraceptive prevalence rates (CPR) in the world at 6.3% in 2000 to 40.4% in 2014, among currently
DKT successfully secured $17.0 million over four (4) years in a grant from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in the third quarter of 2015. The funding will be used to support DKT’s nationwide social marketing activity, which currently reaches more than
DKT completed an innovative campaign to help university students stay safe during the summer months. The campaign was developed in response to input from university health officials that many students return from a break with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or pregnancy. Called “Safe Vacation! Safe
Being seven (7) years behind isn’t always a bad thing, particularly when trying to keep pace with the speed of technological innovation. DKT Ethiopia, the largest supplier of reproductive health and family planning products to the private sector in Ethiopia, is finding this particularly true
DKT commenced a pilot clinic partnership model with five (5) private clinics in Addis Ababa in April 2015. The pilot, which entails preferential pricing, technical assistance, and monitoring from DKT’s side and product exclusivity and adherence to rigorous FMoH quality standards on clinics’ side, has
