FIGURE 1.
Annual Number of Family Planning Clientsa by Type of Contraception and Annual Couple-Years of Protection Provided by MSI Social Franchising Programs in Selected African and Asian Countries,b 2008–2014
Abbreviations: CYPs, couple-years of protection; LARCs, long-acting reversible contraceptives; MSI, Marie Stopes International.
a The number of family planning clients was estimated as follows: for short-acting methods, the number of commodities provided each year divided by the number of commodities needed for a full year of contraceptive protection (i.e., 13 for oral contraceptive pills; 98 for condoms; 4 for DMPA contraceptive injections, given every 3 months; these factors differ slightly from CYP conversion factors because CYP conversion factors take into account method effectiveness and wastage); for LARCs, the number of IUD and implant insertion services provided each year; and for permanent methods, the number of tubal ligation and vasectomy services provided each year.
b Data are from routine program monitoring, from 7 countries in 2008 and growing to 17 countries in 2014.