We have launched our Global Impact Report 2010 today. It assesses progress during 2010 towards our global mission – children by choice, not chance – and the shared global goal of increasing contraceptive prevalence and decreasing unsafe abortions, particularly for the underserved.
The report demonstrates that as a result of services delivered by Marie Stopes International in 2010 an estimated 4.8 million unintended pregnancies, 13,600 maternal deaths and 1.3 million unsafe abortions will be prevented.
The report highlights that millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women continue to trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare.
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We are dedicated to increasing access to a range of family planning options. So we are proud to be able to say that in in 2010 alone, more than seven million couples were using a modern method of contraception as a result of the services we provide across 40 country programmes, and 40% of those family planning clients reported that they had never used family planning before coming to Marie Stopes International.
Commitment to measuring impact
CEO Dana Hovig hailed the continued commitment to measuring the quality and impact of our services, saying: “Family planning is one of the most cost effective preventative healthcare interventions available. These results once again demonstrate that we are making an ever greater difference to the lives of our clients, and an increasing contribution to our mission of children by choice, not chance.
“As an organisation, we are continually striving to enable more women to exercise their fundamental reproductive rights. We are committed to measuring the quality and impact of our services in order to keep improving what we do.”
Innovative service delivery
Mobile clinical outreach programmes, social marketing and social franchising have allowed us to serve even more women than before and these new service delivery routes accounted for 82% of the contraceptives we provided in 2010.
Using the our Impact Estimator, we estimate that the services provided by our country programmes in 2010 will prevent approximately:
- 4.8 million unintended pregnancies
- 13,600 maternal deaths
- 1.3 million unsafe abortions
- 3.1 million disability adjusted life-years (DALYs).
And through reductions in maternal and infacnt morbidity and mortality and unsafe abortion the savings to healthcare systems in the developing world resulting from our 2010 service provision will be approximately £428 million through reductions in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality and unsafe abortion.
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