Marie Stopes Yemen

Marie Stopes has been providing contraception and reproductive health services to the women of Yemen since 1998.

Since then they have provided services to millions of Yemeni women, continuing to offer contraception, despite the often challenging security and political situation in the country.

The current conflict in the country, which started in March 2015, has resulted in many health facilities closing, regular power outages, fuel shortages and three million internally displaced people. The team in Yemen have continued to provide services through the conflict and in 2016 they saw almost half a million women.

The programme currently provides services through:

• 13 clinics in urban areas.
• Four outreach teams.
• 300 social franchisee midwives.
• Social marketing.
• Working directly with the public sector.