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12:35, 20 August 2008
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Yemen
Date established 1998
Contact details Marie Stopes International Yemen
Haddah Post
P.O Box 16160
Sana'a
Yemen

Telephone: + 967 14 175 77
Email: msfran@y.net.ye
Services offered Family planning; HIV/STIs; health screening; maternal health; post abortion care; primary health care; social marketing
Number of clinics 5
Outreach / mobile services Not yet
Social marketing products & brands Condoms: Thiqah; Protec

Contraceptive pill: Protec

Contraceptive injection: Protec Injectable

IUD: Protec IUD
Major partners Ministry of Public Health & Population
Major donors European Community; The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation; KfW Entwicklungsbank; Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ)

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Highlights 

  • was awarded the KfW Entwicklungsbank-funded contract with the Ministry of Public Health & Population to run the only large scale national social marketing project
  • re-branded and re-launched Protec condoms with improved designs and packaging to reach even more users

Future plans

  • introduce permanent family planning method services in 2008
  • open 3 new clinics in 2008
  • develop and expand the social marketing programme further
  • add a HIV component to information, education & communication behaviour change communication campaigns

 

Key statistics for Yemen

Source: UNFPA State of world population 2007
Total population (millions) (2007) 22.3
Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010) 3.1
Projected population (millions) (2050) 59.5
Life expectancy (M / F) 61.1 / 63.9
Total fertility rate (2007) 5.70
% contraceptive prevalence: any method 21
% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods 10
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 86
% births with skills attendants 22
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) 570
Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births 60
Under 5 mortality (M / F) 83 / 75
HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F
Health expenditure public (% of GNP) 2.2
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