LAFIYA NIGERIA

CURRENT OR PREDICTED IMPACT:

• Reached 145,000 women with self-injectable contraceptives

• Distributed 250,000+ doses of Sayana (3-month self-injectable contraceptives)

• Modelled to have averted 15499 unsafe abortions (April 2025)

• Modelled to have saved 1392 lives (April 2025)

• Currently (April 2025) reaching 30,000 women per month 

• 34 percentage point counterfactual increase in contraceptive use among women within an eight-month time frame, based on their Sokoto field study (with absolute use increasing from 2% to 56%)

COST-EFFECTIVENESS:

• Cost-effectiveness modelled by Rethink Priorities with between 11-53x cash transfers (depending on projected scale). 

SIGNIFICANT UPDATES: 

• Registered charity in the UK, the Netherlands, and Nigeria. Fiscal sponsor in the USA (through Global Distribution Fund).

• Funded by Mulago Foundation (Klau (ED) is a Rainer Arnhold Fellow '24), funded by Gates Foundation, incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (summer '23), winners of D-Prize (2021).

• Leverage technology by implementing an SMS and voice reminder system to remind women who self-inject contraception when their next dose is due.

• Close collaboration with the government: state governments take the lead on the recruitment and training of new Lafiya Sisters, pay the base salary of Lafiya Sisters, and supervise scheduled checks on the quality of care & data validation. 

• Currently working with EHA Clinics to import Sayana Press directly from Pfizer, setting up an international supply chain and strengthening the inflow of commodities into the country.