Skip to content

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Results

590k

Family Planning Consultations

240k

Modern Contraceptive Clients Served

654

Maternal Deaths Averted

175k

Unintended Pregnancy Averted

Featured Story

Climate Change, Emergencies, and Menstrual Health

How Pathfinder supports menstrual hygiene management in Bangladesh’s fragile settings In emergency and humanitarian settings, women and girls have specific…

Read The Story
Featured Story

In India, Nurses Increase Reproductive Health Autonomy

On International Nurses Day, Pathfinder’s YUVAA project illustrates how nurses, health centers, and community members come together and bring us…

Read The Story
Featured Story

In India, Married Couples Teach the Next Generation About Contraception and Family Planning

Meet Anita and Mithlesh: a duo bringing joy and contraception to married couples across India’s Bihar and Maharashtra states. When…

Read The Story
Featured Story

Pathfinder at IMNHC 2023 – Digital Resources

International Maternity and Newborn Health Conference 2023 Thank you for your interest in our MNCH publications and resources. Find links…

Read The Story
Featured Story

Walking the Path of Climate Resilience

Lessons Learned from Niger By: Barbara Merz, Managing Director and Katherine Kolios, Executive Director of Rain for the Sahel and…

Read The Story
Featured Story

Voices from the Floods

On Earth Day, Pathfinder is sharing stories from those who experienced unprecedented flooding in Bangladesh in June and July of…

Read The Story
Featured Story

This World Health Worker Week, Health Workers Say “Invest in Us!”

In honor of World Health Worker Week, we interviewed health workers from Burkina Faso and Democratic Republic of the Congo…

Read The Story
Featured Story

Engaging Couples, Engaging Communities

Across India’s Bihar and Maharashtra states, married couples are joining together to reach young couples with modern contraception. This story…

Read The Story
Featured Story

Meet Vaishali and Subash, Yuvaakaars for Life!

Across India’s Bihar and Maharashtra states, married couples are joining together to reach young couples with modern contraception. This story…

Read The Story
Featured Story

YUVAA’s Digital Innovations

Across India’s Bihar and Maharashtra states, married couples are joining together to reach young couples with modern contraception. This story…

Read The Story

Pathfinder works with local partners to provide accessible, quality reproductive health services to millions of people—offering women and adolescent girls the support they need to protect their health and their futures. Pathfinder expands access to contraceptive services, advocates for safe and quality abortion care, improves maternal and newborn health, and supports gender-based violence prevention and support services. Our programs engage local communities to change harmful gender norms, train health providers to offer quality care, and promote inclusive, youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services. 


Our programs engage local communities to change harmful gender norms, train health providers to offer quality care, and promote inclusive, youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services. 

  • Contraceptive Choice  
    Pathfinder improves access to quality, client-centered contraceptive services by strengthening and expanding services in health facilities and communities. This has included supporting the community health workforce to manage the introduction and scale-up of Sayana Press—a self-injectable preferred by many women—and using innovative community-based approaches to reach rural communities with a full range of contraceptive methods. 
  • Comprehensive Abortion Care 
    Pathfinder contributes to an environment that supports women and girls to make their own sexual and reproductive health choices. This includes advocating for policies, systems, and social norms that support access to safe, comprehensive abortion care. We work toward policies and systems that provide access to abortion self-care, have strong referral networks between communities and health facilities, and contribute to an environment that removes barriers to reproductive choice.  
  • Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 
    Pathfinder offers adolescents and youth the information and skills they need to attain sexual and reproductive health. We encourage healthy behaviors and attitudes that support informed decision-making about contraceptive use and healthy relationships, particularly through our work with youth leaders and youth organizations. We advocate for policies that create an environment where youth can assert their sexual and reproductive rights without difficulty. 
  • Maternal and Newborn Health Services 
    Pathfinder is expanding access to maternal health services in health facilities across communities.  We ensure quality of care through continuing education and close clinical mentoring of health workers, as well as the establishment of quality assurance committees in health facilities. Our community-based approaches aim to transform sociocultural perceptions that prevent pregnant women from starting prenatal visits in the first trimester of pregnancy, so that they can benefit from the full package of maternal health care offered. 

Give women and girls control over their future.

Your support provides the reproductive care women and girls need to thrive.

Donate Now

The Latest

Climate Change, Emergencies, and Menstrual Health

How Pathfinder supports menstrual hygiene management in Bangladesh’s fragile settings In emergency and humanitarian settings, women and girls have specific…

Read More

In India, Nurses Increase Reproductive Health Autonomy

On International Nurses Day, Pathfinder’s YUVAA project illustrates how nurses, health centers, and community members come together and bring us…

Read More

In India, Married Couples Teach the Next Generation About Contraception and Family Planning

Meet Anita and Mithlesh: a duo bringing joy and contraception to married couples across India’s Bihar and Maharashtra states. When…

Read More
Our Democratic Republic of the Congo Team

Explore another country