China
445,104 CYPs in 2009
China has the largest population in the world with about 1.2 billion people. Although China has grown rapidly over the past forty years, the fertility rate of women has declined from 5.81 children per woman in 1970 to around 2 today. If China had not implemented a family planning program, its population would have passed the 1.5 billion mark by now.
Since starting China’s first social marketing contraceptive program in 1996, DKT has become an important private contraceptive distributor. DKT-China has two goals: to serve the contraceptive needs of poor people and to prevent HIV/AIDS among vulnerable migrant populations.
DKT-China is active in the remote and impoverished southwest where access to contraceptive services is limited. Yuannan Province, which has 40 million people, has the country's largest number of HIV/AIDS infections due to the large number of intravenous drug users and the sex trade along the border with Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
In addition, DKT-China markets condoms to the millions of migrant workers who cannot take advantage of the government's family planning services because they are available only to married couples and registered permanent residents. There are an estimated one million migrant workers in Kunming, five million in Jiangsu's urban centers, and over three million in Shanghai.
In 2009, DKT’s program sold over 43 million condoms in China and over 63,000 emergency contraception pills. This translates into 445,104 CYPs in 2009.