DKT INTERNATIONAL TANZANIA
DKT International opened it’s Tanzania office in 2014. Over the course of the year the focus has been setting up operations in select priority corridors i.e. Mwanza, Dodoma and Mbeya. Operations setup included registration of products (still ongoing) and setup of Trust clinics along with the recruitment of franchise partners. During the course of 2015 DKT International Tanzania has launched the Trust brand in Dodoma with the opening of the first specialized family planning clinic in Tanzania. The Dodoma clinic is the first of many clinics scheduled to be operational throughout the latter part of 2015. Trust clinics provide a wide array of family planning services i.e. counseling, youth friendly services, wellness, cPAC services, cervical and breast cancer screening along with family planning products i.e. IUCDs, implants, contraceptive pills, emergency contraceptive pills, condoms and so much more.
DKT INTERNATIONAL
In 1989, Phil Harvey founded the nonprofit organization DKT International to promote family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention through social marketing. For a video on Phil explaining Contraceptive Social Marketing, visit here.
Today, DKT International designs and implements social marketing programs in 20 countries around the world. DKT programs provided 28.2 million couple years of protection (CYPs) in 2014, using standard conversion factors for Couple Years of Protection (CYP).
DKT’s sales total for 2014 included nearly 553 million condoms, 86 million cycles of oral contraceptives, over 20 million injectable contraceptives, 2.4 million IUDs, emergency contraception, implants, mifepristone/misoprostol, and manual vacuum aspiration kits.
Revenue from the sales of contraceptives and family planning services in 2012 was $105 million. Program revenues covered approximately 70 percent of our operating costs. This figure has been climbing steadily over the past several years.
Our grants and contributions in 2012 totaled $44.9 million. Our cost per CYP was less than $2, which was made possible by increasing efficiencies to near self-sufficiency in several country programs like Brazil and the Philippines. However, the higher-cost-per CYP programs, such as Bihar India and Sudan, have had a major impact because their urban and rural populations have a great need for contraceptives and contraceptive services.
DKT’s contraceptive social marketing programs have been a remarkable success. While the numbers are impressive, they mask an equally important aspect of social marketing: its profound effect on people’s lives. The humanitarian impact of our social marketing programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia has immediate and long term benefits for poor families.
Planned, healthy families have more food and clothing, and – perhaps most importantly – money for school supplies and education for the new generation of children growing up. Every year, DKT’s innovative programs are saving more lives and improving the health of more families in many of the world’s developing countries.
Rising incomes in Asia and Latin America and steady or declining prices of contraceptives have made it possible for DKT to substantially increase its revenue stream, which leads to lower donor costs per CYP. As DKT programs produce higher sales revenues, the number of CYPs generated by donor dollars also increases.