About us
Marie Stopes International is a not-for-profit sexual and reproductive health (SRH) organisation that uses modern business methods to achieve the social goal of preventing unintended pregnancies and unplanned births in 40 countries worldwide. Marie Stopes International delivers state-of-the-art programmes in: family planning; safe abortion (including post abortion care); maternal & child health; and HIV/STIs, including male circumcision.
In 2007 alone, Marie Stopes International:
- added 46 new clinics to its existing network of 431 clinics, and thousands of outreach sites that serve rural, hard-to-reach communities
- increased the number of female sterilisations by 27%, to 477,234
- provided 430,000 surgical and medical abortions, just under a 7% increase on 2006
- delivered medical abortion services in 28 countries across Asia and Africa
- opened new programmes in Ghana, Mexico City, Papua New Guinea and Timor L’este
- provided high level clinical training for 25 people who in turn trained a further 400 in the first phase of a training cascade which will see up to 4,000 people skilled up over the next four years
- hosted a Global Safe Abortion Conference in London attended by 800 delegates from over 60 countries, and played a key role in advocacy efforts in the UK and internationally
Today, Marie Stopes International is scaling-up both the quality and coverage of sexual and reproductive health services for low-income women and couples in developing countries in order to:
- eradicate unsafe abortion by rapidly expanding access to comprehensive SRH services, including safe abortion
- revolutionise SRH service delivery by providing global technical leadership in family planning and safe abortion
- serve the underserved such as rural communities and displaced populations, rather than merely fighting for a larger share of the existing contraceptive market
- eliminate barriers to SRH supplies and services through programming and advocacy at all levels
- strengthen health systems through partnerships with governments and the non-state sector, to help them do more and do better
In 2008, MSI will launch operations in five additional countries as part of its strategy to be operational in 48 countries by the end of 2010, protecting 20 million couples per year from unplanned pregnancy and unsafe abortion.
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