Australia - clinics

Date established	1999
Contact details	Marie Stopes International GPO Box 1635 Melbourne Victoria 3001 Australia Telephone: +61 03 9654 7771 Email: info@mariestopes.com.au Website: www.mariestopes.com.au Website: www.likeitis.org.au
Services offered	Family planning; abortion; health screening; HIV/STIs; maternal health; youth services
Number of clinics	10

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Highlights

expanded the clinic network 7 to 10 clinics in the past year, including opening the 1st Marie Stopes International clinic in Victoria
a series of Australian firsts:
- launched an online advisory webchat service for abortion at: www.abortionhelp.com.au and vasectomy www.vasectomyinfo.com.au
- first provider to publicly launch the provision of medical abortion using methotrexate following a successful pilot scheme
- launched the first SMS sexual health help text message service for young Australians

Future plans

work has now commenced on a new state-of-the-art healthcare clinic in Midland, Western Australia due to open during the Australian Winter of 2008. The Midland clinic was the 1st Marie Stopes interatnatonal clinic to open in Australia 7 years ago and since then it has provided sexual and reproductive healthcare services to over 18,000 Western Australians
continue to expand access to all services by harnessing new technology

Key statistics for Australia
Source: UNFPA State of world population 2007
Total population (millions) (2007)	20.6
Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010)	1.0
Projected population (millions) (2050)	27.9
Life expectancy (M / F)	78.4 / 83.4
Total fertility rate (2007)	1.75
% contraceptive prevalence: any method	76
% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods	72
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19	13
% births with skills attendants	99
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births)	8
Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births	5
Under 5 mortality (M / F)	6 / 5
HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F	0.3 / <0.1
Health expenditure public (% of GNP)	6.4

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