Executive summary: MSI Reproductive Choices has served over 200 million clients since 1976, delivering highly cost-effective sexual and reproductive healthcare services focused on underserved communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Key points:
MSI’s services have averted an estimated 316,000 maternal deaths and 158.6 million unintended pregnancies since 2000, at an average cost of $4.70 per DALY and $3,353 per maternal death averted globally.
MSI reaches last-mile communities through mobile outreach teams, partnerships with public sector facilities, and a network of local midwives and nurses called MSI Ladies.
In 2023, MSI served 23.3 million clients, with 57% having no other service options, 31% living in multi-dimensional poverty, and 19% being adolescents.
MSI’s services in 2023 are estimated to save 37,500 lives, prevent 16.5 million unintended pregnancies, avert 9 million unsafe abortions, and save $11.2 million in direct healthcare costs for low- and middle-income countries.
MSI Nigeria, the most cost-effective program, has a cost per DALY of $1.63 and per maternal death averted of $685, with significant potential for expansion to meet the country’s high unmet need for contraception.
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Executive summary: MSI Reproductive Choices has served over 200 million clients since 1976, delivering highly cost-effective sexual and reproductive healthcare services focused on underserved communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Key points:
MSI’s services have averted an estimated 316,000 maternal deaths and 158.6 million unintended pregnancies since 2000, at an average cost of $4.70 per DALY and $3,353 per maternal death averted globally.
MSI reaches last-mile communities through mobile outreach teams, partnerships with public sector facilities, and a network of local midwives and nurses called MSI Ladies.
In 2023, MSI served 23.3 million clients, with 57% having no other service options, 31% living in multi-dimensional poverty, and 19% being adolescents.
MSI’s services in 2023 are estimated to save 37,500 lives, prevent 16.5 million unintended pregnancies, avert 9 million unsafe abortions, and save $11.2 million in direct healthcare costs for low- and middle-income countries.
MSI Nigeria, the most cost-effective program, has a cost per DALY of $1.63 and per maternal death averted of $685, with significant potential for expansion to meet the country’s high unmet need for contraception.
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