Temptations Parties is a proud sponsor of DKT International, which provides family planning, contraception and HIV/AIDS prevention to many impoverished countries. Phil Harvey, founder of Adam & Eve, is also the founder of DKT International. http://www.dktinternational.org They ensure that contraceptives are available when and where they are needed most. Ensuring healthier pregnancies and reducing pregnancy-related deaths through educational campaigns. Training and working with doctors, clinicians and midwives to strengthen their ability to delivery high quality products and services. They promote informed choice through a diverse and culturally appropriate range of contraceptives including pills, injectables, IUDs, implants, and male and female condoms. They focus on the needs of low-income and rural women, who are at the greatest risk of unintended pregnancy.
Some of the things they have accomplished:
Performed more than 3,500 educational road shows that have reached some 4 million people in Ethiopia with information about HIV/AIDS and family planning as well as access to on-the-spot medical advice and prescriptions for oral contraception.
Distribution of 50,000 safe sex packages (condoms, comic books, stickers) to truck drivers passing through toll booths in Indonesia.
Increasing HIV awareness among 70,000 youth at sold-out concert for World AIDS Day
in the Philippines.
Pioneering a network of more than 50,000 Rural Medical Practitioners and 400 franchisee doctors who provide some 15% of family planning services in Bihar, India.
Reaching 100,000 high-risk couples during the Brazilian carnival through parade floats
and free samples.
Training government health workers in Vietnam to motivate condom use in bars and hotels in 21 provinces where HIV rates are highest.
Distribution of 400,000 condoms as part of a World AIDS Day advertisement in a local newspaper sold throughout the state of Maharashtra in Western India.
