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12:17, 20 August 2008
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Timor Leste

Timor Leste
Date established 2006
Contact details Marie Stopes International Timor Leste
Corner Av. Bairo Pite (Jl. Heli Port) and Av. Fatumeta (opp. SD Maloa)
Bairo Pite
Dili
Timor Leste

Telephone: + 670 73 287 53
Email: melindamousaco@yahoo.com.au
Services offered Family planning; health screening; HIV/STIs; male circumcision; maternal health; post abortion care; primary health care; refugees/IDPs; social marketing young people
Number of clinics 1
Outreach / mobile services Not yet
Major partners The Ministry of Health; the Norwegian Refugee Council; Program for Psychosocial Development & Recovery in Timor Leste (PRADET); Oxfam Australia; Plan Timor Leste
Major donors Australian Government Overseas AID (AusAID);
New Zealand International Aid and Development Agency (NZAID)

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Highlights

  • established the Programme in 2006 and opened the 1st clinic in early 2007
  • began a programme of national expansion through social marketing via village based distributers
  • established 4 key partnerships with local and international NGOs to provide sexual reproductive health services to clients and staff

Future plans

  • extend further the reach of the social marketing programme via the village based distributers
  • launch an advocacy and sexual & reproductive health rights based initiative with local authorities, religious, traditional and community leaders
  • launch an outreach programme with a particular emphasis on HIV/STI services and targeting those groups that are most at risk

 

Key statistics for Timor Leste

Source: UNFPA State of world population 2007
Total population (millions) (2007) 1.1
Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010) 5.5
Projected population (millions) (2050) 3.3
Life expectancy (M / F) 56.4 / 58.6
Total fertility rate (2007) 7.39
% contraceptive prevalence: any method 10
% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods 9
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 168
% births with skills attendants 24
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) 660
Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births 82
Under 5 mortality (M / F) 118 / 110
HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F No stats available
Health expenditure public (% of GNP) 7.3
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