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Marie Stopes International provides a comprehensive range of sexual and reproductive health services, information and education in 37 countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.
With 25 years experience, we have acquired a global reputation as a provider of safe motherhood and obstetrics, as well as quality family planning services. In addition, we carry out information, education, communication and advocacy programmes; STI and HIV/AIDS prevention, detection and treatment; as well as health, education and support programmes designed specifically to benefit vulnerable communities, such as adolescents, refugees and internally displaced people.

By providing adequate and appropriate information on reproductive health and making services and supplies widely accessible, Marie Stopes International helps achieve better health status for women, men and children, and directly contributes to sustainable development and poverty reduction. MSI advocates for increased political and financial commitment to sexual and reproductive health programmes within the UK, the European Union and with international organisations such as the UN, WHO and World Bank.

This is achieved by working with key decision-makers and through the international development community, emphasising the integral role sexual and reproductive health plays in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ensuring gender rights and reducing poverty. MSI supports its Partners in the developing world to influence policy decisions of their governments in favour of sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as to have their voice heard at an international level.

Press Releases

Marie Stopes: Abortion counselling amendment defeated in Parliament

Today, Members of Parliament have voted against a proposed amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill on abortion counselling. We are pleased it has been recognised that the counselling, provided through organisations such as ours, should continue and is independent and non-directive.

Marie Stopes: Abortion Counselling Debate Must Focus on Quality and Choice

Marie Stopes International is calling for the government to focus on quality and choice in its debate on abortion counselling, not politics.

Marie Stopes International: High court rules against women having the right to choose where they have a medical abortion

Marie Stopes International: High court rules against women having the right to choose where they have a medical abortion

Marie Stopes International: Low awareness of reliable contraception increases the risk of unplanned pregnancies

Marie Stopes International: Low awareness of reliable contraception increases the risk of unplanned pregnancies

Marie Stopes International: Manchester teens getting the SexFactor

Marie Stopes International: Manchester teens getting the SexFactor

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Special event coverage

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Festival of Social Sciences: Celebrating the Social Sciences

Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.

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Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.

Opinion Former Events

NHF: Leaders’ Forum and Exhibition 2012

This flagship event is a forum for chief executives and chairs of the housing sector to network with each other and learn from a range of high-profile and inspirational speakers from media, political and housing backgrounds. It takes place in Park Plaza Victoria, London.

TACT: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): how to support affected children

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an incurable lifelong condition arising from brain damage caused by maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy. The effects may include physical, mental, behavioural and learning disabilities. However, if diagnosed, the right strategies can transform the lives of those affected. This new Guardian Social Care Network half-day seminar in association with TACT Fostering and Adoption will explain the condition and show what can be done to help.

bpas: Abortion in the US: Popularity, Politics and Practice

We often hear of the ‘Americanisation’ of abortion politics in the UK, but unpicking the substantive threats to women’s reproductive rights in the US can be a challenge. The 2012 bpas public lecture will explore the current state of abortion politics in the US and, at a time when abortion appears increasingly politicised in the UK, reflect on what lessons can be drawn by those keen to protect women’s reproductive autonomy elsewhere.

Cogent SSC: UK Nuclear Skills Awards - 22nd March 2012

The UK Nuclear Awards is steadily becoming an anticipated annual event in the Nuclear calendar. The National Skills Academy for Nuclear and Cogent Sector Skills Council are preparing to hold their fourth collaborative Skills Awards Evening for the industry.

BSIA: Information Destruction Exhibition and Conference

This one-day event is targeted at professionals operating in the information destruction industry, and aims at keeping delegates updated on recent developments in their sector, providing an opportunity to network with fellow professionals, whilst offering access to an informative exhibition and a comprehensive conference programme.

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