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Uganda
Uganda
Marie Stopes Uganda & Marie Stopes International Uganda
Date established 1990 and 1995 respectively
Services offered Family planning; health screening; HIV/STIs; maternal health; primary health care; post abortion care; refugees/IDPs; social marketing; young people
Number of clinics 16
Outreach / mobile services Yes
Social marketing products & brands Condoms: Lifeguard Blue; Liefguard Pink

Pregnancy test: Easy Life Pregnancy Test Strips
Major partners Ministry of Health; Market Vendors Aids Project (MAVAP) with Uganda Cares
Major donors Ministry of Health; UK Department for International Development (DFID); European Community; United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); KfW Entwicklungsbank; Direct Relief International; International Planned Parenthood (IPPF)
Contact details Marie Stopes Uganda
PO Box 3557
Plot No. 1020, Kisugu
Muyenga
Kampala
Uganda

Telephone: + 256 414 510 337/516 

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Highlights

  • implementated an Output Based Aid (OBA) scheme for the treatment of sexually transmitted infections and provision of safe deliveries, in partnership with KfW and the Government of Uganda
  • increased the provision of long term methods of family planning by 74% from 2007-2008, largely due to the expansion of outreach services to rural communities
  • distributed more than 18.5 million condoms in 2008, with over 144 million condoms distributed in total since the contraceptive social marketing project was launched
  • only provider in Uganda of long term and permanent methods of family planning via outreach
  • reached women and men living in internally displaced perosns (IDP) camps in conflict affected northern Uganda, through the RAISE initiative, and provided them with long term and permanent family planning methods
  • merger of Marie Stopes Uganda with Marie Stopes International Uganda, leading to increased effectiveness in the provision of sexual and reprodcutive healthcare (SRH) services across Uganda.
Publications
MSI in Uganda: addressing gaps in family planning access
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07/01/2009, PDF, 997KB
This brief offers a statistical snapshot of Uganda’s high fertility rates and estimates Marie Stopes International’s (MSI) contribution to the use of modern contraceptive methods in rural areas.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Uganda
Uganda: Providing a Life Guard against HIV
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07/06/2007, PDF, 247KB
Outlining how MSI Uganda uses social marketing techniques to targets groups at highest risk of contracting or spreading HIV and other STIs.
Categories: Contraception, Uganda

134,831

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Clients served in 2008

18,977,024

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Condoms distributed during 2008

Future plans


  • expand the of Output Based Aid (OBA) voucher scheme partnership with KfW and the Government of Uganda
  • expand outreach services (long term and permanent family planning methods) to remote rural communities
  • develop a male circumcision initiative in partnership with several other key NGOs.


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