About us
Marie Stopes International is a not-for-profit sexual and reproductive health organisation that uses modern business methods to achieve the social goal of preventing unintended pregnancies and unwanted births in countries around the world.
In the UK, Marie Stopes International has a network of centres delivering state-of-the art services in abortion, female sterilisation, vasectomy and health screening. In 2009, Marie Stopes International delivered services to 104,572 clients.
Marie Stopes International has been working in partnership with the NHS for over 20 years, supporting Primary Care Trusts.
In addition to the UK, Marie Stopes International has a further centres, multiple outreach sites and mobile services across 42 countries delivering the same high standard of care and services. As well as abortion, female sterilisation, vasectomy and health screening, Marie Stopes International also offers post abortion care; maternal & child health; STI diagnosis & treatment, and HIV prevention initiatives including condom distribution and male circumcision.
Providing information and encouraging behaviour change (i.e. HIV awareness) are also an important part of Marie Stopes International’s work, with numerous in-country campaigns taking place each year.
Worldwide in 2009, Marie Stopes International:
- delivered health services to 6.3 million clients
- protected more than 18 million couples from unwanted pregnancies and unsafe abortion
- provided over 800,000 safe abortions
- provided over 1.7 million long term and permanent methods of contraception
- increased condom sales to 159 million
- added 66 clinics to an existing network of 560 clinics (bring the total to 626) and hundreds more outreach sites in rural areas and urban slums
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