Yemen
Date established 1998
Services offered Family planning; HIV/STIs; health screening; maternal health; post abortion care; primary health care; social marketing; youth programme
Number of clinics 5
Outreach / mobile services Yes
Social marketing products & brands Condoms: Thiqah; Protec

Contraceptive pill: Protec

Contraceptive injection: Protec Injectable

IUD: Protec IUD
Major partners Ministry of Public Health & Population Population Sector
Major donors Embassy of Kingdom of Netherlands; European Community; KfW Entwicklungsbank; Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ)
Contact details Marie Stopes International Yemen
Haddah Post
P.O Box 16160
Sana'a
Yemen

Telephone: + 967 14 175 77
Email: msfran@y.net.ye

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Highlights 

  • distributed over 2.2 million condoms in 2008
  • 36% increase on the number of clients seen, on the 2007 figure
  • awarded the KfW Entwicklungsbank-funded contract with the Ministry of Public Health & Population to run the only large scale national social marketing project
  • re-branded and re-launched contraceptive Protec condoms with improved designs and packaging to reach even more users.
Publications
Perceptions and realities: Yemeni men, women and contraception - English & Arabic (summary)
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20/11/2007, PDF, 721KB
Key findings from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey and Peer Ethnographic Evaluation Research Study Yemen.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Yemen
Perceptions and realities: Yemeni men, women and contraception - English & Arabic (full report)
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20/11/2007, PDF, 1.60MB
Key findings from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey and Peer Ethnographic Evaluation Research Study Yemen.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Yemen

57,694

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Clients served in 2008

2,214,111

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Condoms distributed in 2008

MSI future plans


  • expand the contraceptive social marketing programme
  • add a HIV component to information, education & communication behaviour change communication campaigns.



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