Enterprise in Mexico: A Strategic Approach to Private Sector Family Planning

摘要

In 1986, the Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) initiated a program to help Mexican private sector organizations develop and deliver high-quality family planning (FP) services. The program has two major components. A workplace component has collaborated with private sector employers and nongovernmental FP organizations to expand company-based FP programs. Results have included dramatic declines in work force pregnancy rates, substantial savings to the companies, and a gradual but growing demand on the part of employers for FP services. Currently, the employers cover all recurrent costs of the workplace-based programs. The program's market-based component has led to two distinct developments. The first was the creation of a self-sustaining business, PROTA, to procure and distribute IUD's to private doctors and clinics for resale to poor and middle income people nationwide. The second achievement was the establishment of private sector community clinics in economically marginal neighborhoods.