How can we increase the role of private sector providers?
Private health-care providers could play a greater role in family planning by including it among the other health services they provide. However, the potential for this approach should not be overestimated: Because the market for family planning is so small in many sub-Saharan countries, it is generally not a profitable enterprise in and of itself.26 This is a major reason behind the lack of dynamism in the commercial market for family planning in the region.
