Selling condoms and other health products as part of CCP’s Keneya Jemu Kan project has helped provide a livelihood to a group of women in rural Mali. “It has become a source of life for many families,” says one seller.
A CCP-led safe motherhood pilot program in Mali was so successful – doubling the number of facility-based births over a short time period – that it’s already being expanded to 38 more villages.
Each woman in Mali gives birth to an average of six children. And talk of sex, let alone family planning, is considered taboo here.
Despite these obstacles, last year CCP and its partners in the USAID-funded Keneya Jemu Kan (KJK) project sold 14.9 million condoms, 50 percent more than they anticipated.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health recently opened voting for 120 Under 40: The New Generation of Family Planning Leaders, their annual event to recognize outstanding young leaders in family planning. This year, we’re excited to announce that eight CCP
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