Marie Stopes International, London, UK
From the Global Women's Network
| Marie Stopes International, London, UK | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 1 Conway Street, Fitzroy Square |
| City: | London |
| State or Province: | W1T 6LP |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Location: |
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| Location coordinates: | 51° 31' 19" N, 0° 8' 22" WLatitude: 51.5218715 Longitude: -0.1395539 |
| Executive Director: | Dana Hovig |
| Contact number: | +44 (0)20 7636 6200 |
| Contact email: | info@mariestopes.org |
| Website: | http://www.mariestopes.org |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/MarieStopes |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/MarieStopes |
| Target: | Women |
| Organization type: | International NGO (operating in multiple countries) |
| Operates in the following countries: | Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Romania, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Uganda, UK, USA, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Sectors: | Health, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Teen Pregnancy/Mothers |
| Year founded/registered: | 1976 |
Summary
Marie Stopes International is a sexual and reproductive health organisation that uses modern business methods to achieve the social goal of preventing unintended pregnancies and unplanned births.
About
Marie Stopes International is one of the largest international family planning organisations in the world. In 2008 alone, the organisation provided over six million people in 42 countries with high quality health services, including family planning; safe abortion & post-abortion care; maternal & child health care including safe delivery and obstetrics; diagnosis & treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and HIV/AIDS prevention
Activities
Marie Stopes International delivers state-of-the-art programmes in: family planning; safe abortion (including post abortion care); maternal & child health; and HIV/STIs, including male circumcision. In 2009 alone, Marie Stopes International: added 66 new clinics to its existing network of 560 clinics (bringing the total to 626), and thousands of outreach sites that serve rural, hard-to-reach communities increased condom sales by 11% to 159 million increased the number of safe abortions delivered in our clinics from 470,000 in 2008 to 557,000 in 2009, by far MSI's largest year-on-year increase ever increased the number of IUDs fitted by 78% to 871,000 Our services in 2009 will prevent: 2.6 million unsafe abortions; 9.3 million unwanted pregnancies; 6.7 million unintended births; 517,000 under-five mortalities; 372,000 infant mortalities; 35,600 maternal mortalities.
Today, Marie Stopes International is scaling-up both the quality and coverage of sexual and reproductive health services for low-income women and couples in developing countries in order to: eradicate unsafe abortion by rapidly expanding access to comprehensive SRH services, including safe abortion; revolutionise SRH service delivery by providing global technical leadership in family planning and safe abortion; serve the underserved such as rural communities and displaced populations, rather than merely fighting for a larger share of the existing contraceptive market; eliminate barriers to SRH supplies and services through programming and advocacy at all levels; strengthen health systems through partnerships with governments and the non-state sector, to help them do more and do better.
