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11:53, 20 August 2008
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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka
Date established 1984
Contact details Population Services Lanka
155 Kirula Road
Narahenpita Road
Colombo
Sri Lanka

Telephone: + 941 12 581 035
Email: psi@colombomail.lk
Services offered Family planning; HIV/STIs; maternal health; primary health care; refugees/IDPs; social marketing
Number of clinics 6
Outreach / mobile services Yes
Social marketing products & brands Condoms: Sathuta; Romantic and Maximum (supplier’s brand)

Contraceptive pill: Feminyl

Emergency contraceptive pill: Pregnon
Major donors UK Department for International Development; European Community; United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

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Highlights

  • won a grant from the European Commission to expand access to services for IDPs in North East Sri Lanka
  • over 6 million condoms distributed in 2006 alone

Future plans

  • work alongside the District Health Authority in the North to provide a comprehensive range of sexual and reproductive health services which will benefit 50,000 conflict affected people
  • expand the social marketing programme to include longer term contraceptive methods such as contraceptive injections and IUDs

 

Key statistics for Sri Lanka

Source: UNFPA State of world population 2007
Total population (millions) (2007) 21.1
Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010) 0.8
Projected population (millions) (2050) 23.6
Life expectancy (M / F) 72.4 / 77.7
Total fertility rate (2007) 1.87
% contraceptive prevalence: any method 70
% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods 50
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 17
% births with skills attendants 97
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) 92
Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births 15
Under 5 mortality (M / F) 20 / 13
HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F 0.1 / <0.1
Health expenditure public (% of GNP) 1.6

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