2019-2027

Children by choice

2019-2027

MSI Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices (MSI) provides sexual and reproductive healthcare services that enable women all over the world to choose whether, and when, to have children – on their own terms. We have been funding MSI in Senegal since 2019, with an initial focus on mobile operations in the Louga region. Since 2021, we have been supporting its work across the country, contributing to its bold objective of serving 1.3 million women by 2027.

www.msichoices.org

CHALLENGE

Women of reproductive age represent one third of Senegal’s population, but only 23% use modern contraceptive methods. Without adequate access to contraception, women are often unable to pursue education or a career. Many live in extreme poverty and find it difficult to look after their families.

ACTION

MSI works with communities, religious leaders and the government in Senegal to provide access to free, high-quality sexual and reproductive health services for girls and women, such as family planning and cervical cancer screening and treatment.

MSI operates through a network of private centres, mobile outreach teams and community-based services.

Mobile outreach teams work in the most remote communities, where public health services are limited. Knowing that unintended pregnancies force teen girls to drop out of school, special emphasis is placed on providing female students with counselling and contraceptive solutions to meet their needs.

Community-based healthcare workers, known as MSI Ladies, offer door-to-door consultations in urban communities, where cultural barriers require particular discretion.

At a national level, MSI supports the government to build public health sector capacity so that hospitals, clinics and health centres will be able to fund and provide sexual and reproductive services sustainably on their own in the long term.

MSI aims to serve 1.3 million women in Senegal by 2027.