CHAI and partners, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, United States Agency for International Development, NORAD, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, negotiate an agreement to lower the price of Bayer and Merck’s long-acting reversible contraceptives from US$18 to US$8.50 per implant and accelerate roll-out of the products to save the lives of women.