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
DKT Ethiopia continued its record of success, completing 2014 as the 3rd largest contraceptive social marketing program in the world and the largest in Africa in terms of couples year protection (CYP). The organization distributed 4.46 million CYP in 2014, which placed DKT Ethiopia 3rd
In spite of several advantages over short-term methods like pills and injections, long-term methods, including intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCD) and implants, continue to constitute just a fraction of contraceptive use in Ethiopia. 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) shows that IUCD and implants make
DKT Ethiopia’s Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) -supported Rural Social Marketing (RSM) pilot concluded in February, with promising results. The pilot, a 15-month, $1.1 million grant, expanded on DKT’s mainstream RSM Project (“Lekie”), experimenting with three (3) implementation models for increasing FP demand and
