Publications

Global Impact Report 2009

Kristen Hopkins
The wide range of data compiled in this report answer questions on the number of women and men reached with MSI’s family planning and safe abortion services.
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Marie Stopes International background information

Michael Tirrell
Background information about what Marie Stopes International does, where it does it and what impact it has.
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Voucher schemes for sexual and reproductive health services

Leo Bryant
This publication discusses how vouchers can be used as a targeted intervention to harness new service providers. It draws on case studies in Uganda, Pakistan and Kenya.
Categories: Kenya, Output based aid, Pakistan, Uganda

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Long-acting and permanent methods

Erica Nelson
Fact sheet covering the global impact that MSI has had as a result of its long-acting contraceptive methods.
Categories: Contraception, Research

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Government social franchising: using private sector approaches to improve the public sector provision of reproductive healthcare in Viet Nam

The Vietnamese Government has set up an innovative social franchise network. Marie Stopes International Viet Nam collaborated with the Government to apply the best of private sector franchising to improve public sector services.
Categories: Social franchising, Viet Nam

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What Women Want: meeting the global demand for medical abortion

Peter Gordon, Tania Boler, Jo Burgin and Tracey Brett
This publication seeks to address the lack of documentation in relation to demand for and access to medical abortion, by highlighting best practice and lessons learnt.
Categories: Abortion, Corporate

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What Women Want: meeting the global demand for medical abortion - SUMMARY

Peter Gordon, Tania Boler, Jo Burgin and Tracey Brett
This publication seeks to address the lack of documentation in relation to demand for and access to medical abortion, by highlighting best practice and lessons learnt.
Categories: Abortion, Corporate

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Marie Stopes Vasectomy: expanding access in Bangladesh

MSI’s successful expansion of vasectomy services in Bangladesh provides a useful example of how male contraceptive use can be increased through better access to high-quality services.
Categories: Bangladesh, Research, Vasectomy

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At the cutting edge: Delivering male circumcision through Marie Stopes International's reproductive health mobile outreach programmes in Kenya

Thoai D. Ngo and George Obhai
A research document that examines the trial of the use of male circumcision as a tool in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS in Kenya.
Categories: HIV/AIDS, Kenya, Research

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Male circumcision fact sheet

Heidi Quinn and Brendan Hayes
Factsheet about male circumcision and its use as a tool against the spread of HIV.
Categories: HIV/AIDS

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Marie Stopes International Financial statements 2008

Includes the Report of the Trustees, and Audited Accounts for 2008
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“The condom broke!” Why do women in the UK have unintended pregnancies?

Louise Bury and Thoai D Ngo
The United Kingdom has high levels of reported contraceptive use, yet it also has high levels of abortion.
Categories: Abortion, Contraception, Research, United Kingdom

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“The condom broke!” Why do women in the UK have unintended pregnancies? - Research brief

Louise Bury and Tony Kerridge
Summary of the key points from the full research report.
Categories: Abortion, Contraception, Research

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Pioneering HIV prevention strategies in rural Kenya

Erica Nelson and Heidi Quinn
A case study of Marie Stopes International’s male circumcision outreach project
Categories: HIV/AIDS, Kenya, Research

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Report of the Global Safe Abortion Conference

MSI and IPAS
Report of the Global Conference on Safe Abortion, held in London in October 2007.
Categories: Abortion

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The MSI Impact Calculator: methodology and assumptions

Tania Boler, Nick Corby and Dana Hovig
An explanation of the methodology behind the MSI Impact Calculator, which examines the impact of MSI's health programmes.
Categories: Corporate, Research

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Medical Abortion in India: A model for the rest of the world? Research Brief

Tania Boler and William Little
MSI’s research found that India’s model of liberalised access to medical abortion has, on the whole, gained high levels of acceptability from both women and men and healthcare providers.
Categories: Abortion, India, Research

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Medical Abortion in India: A model for the rest of the world? Research and Analysis

Tania Boler, Cicely Marston, Nick Corby and Elizabeth Gardiner
MSI’s research found that India’s model of liberalised access to medical abortion has, on the whole, gained high levels of acceptability from both women and men and healthcare providers.
Categories: Abortion, India, Research

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MSI’s impact on fertility decline in Nepal

Given the striking decrease in the country’s fertility rate, Nepal is an unusual success story. It has achieved such a rapid fertility decline in the face of significant and complex development challenges.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Nepal

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Scaling up the delivery of rural services in the Philippines

Virgilio Pernito, Erica Nelson and Stefanie Wallach
Despite trying to encourage “responsible parenthood and family planning” nationwide, family planning advocates have faced a numerous barriers in the Philippines.
Categories: Contraception, Philippines, Research

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Marie Stopes Ligations: complication rates and client satisfaction in Malawi

Angela Chipeta-Khonje, Soumitro Ghosh, Nick Corby and Thoai Ngo
Research and analysis of complication rates following MSL procedures at Banja La Mtsogolo in Malawi.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Malawi

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MSI in Uganda: addressing gaps in family planning access

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

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Financial statements 2007

Board of Trustees
Financial report of the Board of Trustees for the year ended 31st December 2007
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Perceptions and realities: Yemeni men, women and contraception - English & Arabic (summary)

Key findings from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey and Peer Ethnographic Evaluation Research Study Yemen.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Yemen

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Perceptions and realities: Yemeni men, women and contraception - English & Arabic (full report)

Key findings from a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey and Peer Ethnographic Evaluation Research Study Yemen.
Categories: Contraception, Research, Yemen

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Annual review 06 – 07

The passion and excellence of our 5,000 team members worldwide are improving hundreds of millions of lives, empowering women and men with the information and quality services they need to have children by choice, not chance.
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Comprehensive reproductive health care

Health and development organisations worldwide have recognised the critical importance of global reproductive health for all people. Reproductive Health as a vital building block towards improving maternal health, achieving gender equality, promoting the autonomy of women, reducing child mortality and eradicating poverty.
Categories: RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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RAISE: Emergency obstetric care

Complications related to pregnancy and childbirth are among the leading causes of mortality of women of reproductive age in many parts of the developing world.
Categories: RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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RAISE: Family planning

Family planning is essential to the ability of women and families to achieve good health and wellbeing. Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) must have access to these services yet they are among the most underserved populations in the world.
Categories: RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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RAISE: HIV & sexually transmitted infections

Together, HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are responsible for the destruction of health on a massive scale.
Categories: HIV/AIDS, RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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RAISE: Gender based violence

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive public health and human rights problem throughout the world. Anyone can experience GBV, but women and girls are affected more frequently than men and boys.
Categories: RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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RAISE: Unsafe abortion

Unsafe abortion is the source of nearly 80,000 deaths annually. Almost all of these occur in the developing world, where most humanitarian emergencies take place. All women and girls, including those displaced by emergencies, must have access to lifesaving post-abortion care (PAC).
Categories: Abortion, RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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Minimum initial Service Package

The Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Reproductive Health (RH) is designed to address the priority RH needs of populations in the earliest phases of emergencies.
Categories: RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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Combined PDF of all RAISE factsheets

A compilation of all the listed RAISE factsheets.
Categories: RAISE, Refugees / IDPs

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Cries & whispers – the untold stories of unsafe abortion

Fiona Carr, Tony Kerridge and Diana Thomas
cries & whispers is a powerful testament to the rights of women everywhere to have access to a safe abortion.
Categories: Abortion, Corporate

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Uganda: Providing a Life Guard against HIV

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

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Safe abortion – life saving intervention and human right

Between one and five of every 10 women undergoing an unsafe abortion needs medical care for severe complications. Of these women, 68,000 die each year. These deaths are all easily preventable.
Categories: Abortion

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Ouput-based aid

How Marie Stopes International (MSI) is pioneering the use of Output-based aid (OBA) to scale-up health services for women.
Categories: Output based aid

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Social Franchising in Nicaragua & Honduras - overview – Spanish

This document outlines the outcome of three franchising projects implemented by MSI Partners in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Categories: Social franchising

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Public private partnerships

Large scale public private partnerships transform health sectors and dramatically increase the use of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a major partner to governments around the world and a key actor within their health systems.
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Safe motherhood in developing countries

Maurice King and Glen Mola
Safe motherhood in developing countries can be purchased at £12.99 plus P&P. Enquiries should be sent to orders@mariestopes.org.uk.
Categories: Maternal health

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Advocacy fact sheet

People need access to services and information in an environment which is politically, economically and culturally supportive of their basic human right to good sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
Categories: Advocacy, Corporate

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Social Franchising in Nicaragua & Honduras - overview – English

This document outlines the outcome of three franchising projects implemented by MSI Partners in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Categories: Social franchising

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Social Franchising in Nicaragua & Honduras - viewpoint - Spanish

This document outlines the outcome of three franchising projects implemented by MSI Partners in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Categories: Social franchising

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Social Franchising in Nicaragua & Honduras - viewpoint - English

This document outlines the outcome of three franchising projects implemented by MSI Partners in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Categories: Social franchising

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Adolescence in Pakistan: sex, marriage and reproductive health - intoview

The findings of research carried out into awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Pakistan.
Categories: Pakistan, Research, Young people

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Adolescence in Pakistan: sex, marriage and reproductive health - overview

The findings of research carried out into awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Pakistan.
Categories: Pakistan, Research, Young people

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MSI’s Medical Development Team

MSI’s Medical Development Team (MDT) allows the organisation to deliver a broad range of high quality reproductive health services to millions of each year.
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Sexpositions - poster

Sex is about contraception and couples ability to plan their family, and keeping free of all transmitted infections, it should not be about women dying.
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Sexpositions – postcard for MPs

Each year, some 80 million women face unwanted or unplanned pregnancy. About 20 million of these women will risk an unsafe abortion and 68,000 will die as a result.
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Safe motherhood – essential healthcare and human right

Every year, 529,000 women die as a direct result of being pregnant – 99% of them in the developing world. In turn, these deaths contribute to the deaths of at least 1.5 million infants in the first week of life and 1.4 million still born babies. The tragedy is that almost all of these deaths could have been prevented through the provision of some of the most basic health care measures.
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Reducing maternal mortality among repatriated Guatemalan refugees - overview - English

Guatemala has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America. Indigenous returned refugees comprise some of the poorest and most marginalised communities in the country.
Categories: Maternal health, Mexico, Refugees / IDPs

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Reducing maternal mortality among repatriated Guatemalan refugees - intoview - English

Guatemala has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America. Indigenous returned refugees comprise some of the poorest and most marginalised communities in the country.
Categories: Maternal health, Mexico, Refugees / IDPs

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Reducing maternal mortality among repatriated Guatemalan refugees - overview - Spanish

Guatemala has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America. Indigenous returned refugees comprise some of the poorest and most marginalised communities in the country.
Categories: Maternal health, Mexico, Refugees / IDPs

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Reducing maternal mortality among repatriated Guatemalan refugees - intoview - Spanish

Guatemala has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Latin America. Indigenous returned refugees comprise some of the poorest and most marginalised communities in the country.
Categories: Maternal health, Mexico, Refugees / IDPs

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Overcoming barriers to reproductive health in Afghanistan - intoview

A study to understand barriers to the use of family planning and other reproductive health (RH) services in Afghanistan.
Categories: Afghanistan, Contraception

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Overcoming barriers to reproductive health in Afghanistan - overview

Overview of a study to understand barriers to the use of family planning and other reproductive health (RH) services in Afghanistan.
Categories: Afghanistan, Contraception

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HIV/AIDS – are we doing enough?

Although HIV/Aids affects everyone, countries in the developing world have been most profoundly hit by the pandemic, with no sign yet of HIV rates going down. Where we are now?, Who pays the bill?, Destroying a continent?, A success story?, Stopping the pandemic.
Categories: HIV/AIDS

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Cover the world with condoms – advocacy pack

Neil Johns
Condoms are the single most effective way people can protect themselves from HIV/AIDS transmission.
Categories: HIV/AIDS

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Developing a poverty grading tool – viewpoint

This Document outlines a research project conducted in Bangladesh by Marie Stopes International’s partner, Marie Stopes Clinic Society (MSCS).
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Poverty grading tool manual – project managers guide

This guide describes in detail the participatory methods used to develop the poverty grading tool.
Categories: Bangladesh, Poverty

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Poverty grading tool manual – trainees guide

The tool consists of a range of measures to assess the poverty levels of households in the community in which they work.
Categories: Bangladesh, Poverty

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Poverty grading tool manual – trainers guide

The tool consists of a range of measures to assess the poverty levels of households in the community in which they work.
Categories: Bangladesh, Poverty

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UK Opinion Leaders views on SRH in the developing world - intoview

The results of an independent survey of Marie Stopes International conducted by Opinion Leader Research 2003 on sexual and reproductive health rights in developing countries
Categories: Advocacy, United Kingdom

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Global Decade Report

This document is the second in a series of reports produced by the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium (RHRC Consortium), charting progress in the field of reproductive health service delivery for refugees and internally displaced populations.
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Refugee briefing pack – Emergency obstetrics

Obstetric emergencies include haemorrhage, sepsis, eclampsia, obstructed labour and complications of abortion. These symptoms can be exacerbated in the refugee settings due to the trauma of flight and life in exile, the often poor sanitary conditions of camp settings, and the generally lower levels of health amount refugee women.
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Refugee briefing pack – family planning

More than 120 million women say they want to space or to limit their families, but currently do not have accessible, affordable, or appropriate means of doing so. This problem is evident in refugee settings where a high number of women are struggling with unwanted, unplanned, and poorly spaced pregnancies – Hazardous for them and their children.
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Refugee briefing pack – reproductive health care

Worldwide there is currently 35 million refugees and internally displaced people, until very recently, reproductive health care has been a neglected area of relief work, despite the fact that poor reproductive health is a significant cause of death and disease in camp settings once emergency health needs have been met.
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Refugee briefing pack – safe motherhood

Pregnancy and childbirth are recognised health risks for women in developing countries. UNICEF estimates that 15 million women a year suffer long-term, chronic illness and disability because they do not receive the care they need during their pregnancy and these risks are magnified in a refugee setting.
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Refugee briefing pack – sexual / gender health

Sexual and gender violence is endemic in conflict situations, where rape and other forms of violent sexual assault are increasingly used as weapons of war. Migrants and displaced persons in many parts of the world have limited access to reproductive health care and may face serious threats to their reproductive health and rights.
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Refugee briefing pack – STIs/HIV/AIDS

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS spread fastest where there is poverty, powerlessness and social instability. These conditions are characteristic of life in refugee settings. As a consequence, there is an increasing incidence of STIs and HIV among displaced populations.
Categories: HIV/AIDS, Refugees / IDPs

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MSI position paper on reproductive health supplies security – English

This paper sets out the Marie Stopes International (MSI) Global Partnership’s response to the looming crisis in relation to the sustained provision of reproductive health supplies in developing countries. It also examines the factors affecting the sustained delivery of supplies, the proposed solutions, and the impact that the issue has had on the MSI partnership.
Categories: Contraception, Corporate

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MSI position paper on reproductive health supplies security – French

This paper sets out the Marie Stopes International (MSI) Global Partnership’s response to the looming crisis in relation to the sustained provision of reproductive health supplies in developing countries. It also examines the factors affecting the sustained delivery of supplies, the proposed solutions, and the impact that the issue has had on the MSI partnership.
Categories: Contraception, Corporate

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MSI position paper on reproductive health supplies security – Spanish

This paper sets out the Marie Stopes International (MSI) Global Partnership’s response to the looming crisis in relation to the sustained provision of reproductive health supplies in developing countries. It also examines the factors affecting the sustained delivery of supplies, the proposed solutions, and the impact that the issue has had on the MSI partnership.
Categories: Contraception, Corporate

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Refugee briefing pack – adolescents

Young people represent a high percentage of refugee populations. Young refugees are similar to all young people in that they have special needs during their years of development and need access to sexual and reproduction health education and services.
Categories: Refugees / IDPs, Young people

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MSI position paper on young people

This paper sets Marie Stopes International’s (MSI’s) reproductive health programming for young people within the global framework.
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MSI position paper on refugees

This paper sets Marie Stopes International’s (MSI’s) reproductive health programming for young people within the global framework, highlighting how the organisation is engaging with its Partners to develop and expand the provision of sexual and reproductive health information and services for young people.
Categories: Refugees / IDPs

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MSI position paper on HIV/AIDS

This paper seeks to contextualise Marie Stopes International’s (MSI’s) global programmes within the HIV/AIDS epidemic highlighting HIV/AIDS as a reproductive health issue and showing how MSI is engaging with its Partners to develop and expand its response.
Categories: HIV/AIDS

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Reproductive health briefing pack – English

Briefing pack on a range of reproductive health and related issues, including safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS and young people.
Categories: Advocacy

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Reproductive health briefing pack - German

Briefing pack on a range of reproductive health and related issues, including safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS and young people.
Categories: Advocacy

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Reproductive health briefing pack – Spanish

Briefing pack on a range of reproductive health and related issues, including safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS and young people.
Categories: Advocacy

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Reproductive health briefing pack – French

Briefing pack on a range of reproductive health and related issues, including safe motherhood, HIV/AIDS and young people.
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