MSI achieves record expansion of sexual and reproductive health services in 2007
London – MSI programmes worldwide delivered more than 12 million couple years of protection (CYPs) in 2007, a 27% increase over the previous year and the single largest year-on-year growth in the organisation’s 32 year history. This historic growth was powered in part by another milestone: MSI’s delivery of long-term and permanent contraceptive methods including intrauterine devices (IUDs), injectables, implants and sterilisations increased more than 30% almost reaching the one million mark for the first time ever.
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These figures demonstrate that MSI is learning, evolving and expanding to better meet the unmet need in family planning and reproductive healthcare around the world,” said Dana Hovig, MSI’s chief executive. “
Our family planning services, for example, are making an important contribution to reducing poverty in numerous countries.”
Last year MSI:
- 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
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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