Far too many mothers and young children still die from preventable causes throughout West Africa. But family planning is a fantastic launching pad for improving the health of mothers and babies. Not only does it drastically reduce the number of families that lose mothers and infants, it also allows women to limit or space births and prevents 24 million abortions per year.
In the past year, 8.4 million more women and girls around the world began using modern methods of contraception. And thanks in part to IntraHealth’s Informed Push Model of contraceptive distribution, Senegal’s modern contraceptive prevalence rate has risen from 12.1% in 2010 to 20.1% in 2014.
The Informed Push Model prevents stockouts of women’s favorite methods and reinvests proceeds from clients’ purchases back into the public contraceptive supply system to ensure the constant flow and availability of products.
And now we’re working with Senegal to expand the model nationwide.
