Africa: Family Planning

(asked on 13th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the number of Disability Life Years Saved in African countries under her Department's Prevention of Maternal Death from Unwanted Pregnancy programme; and what the financial savings accrued were in each year since 2011.


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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 23rd October 2017

The Prevention of Maternal Deaths programme has averted an estimated 8 million Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). The financial savings to national health systems since the programme’s inception is an estimated £296 million.

The annual breakdown of estimated savings is as follows:

Programme Year

£, millions saved

Year 1

20

Year 2

30

Year 3

46

Year 4

82

Year 5

56

Year 6

62

Grand Total

296

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