Family planning 

It is estimated that the unmet need for family planning will grow by 40% during the next 15 years.

Worldwide there are more than 80 million unintended pregnancies each year and one woman dies every minute from a pregnancy-related causes. More than 200 million women who want to plan their families do not have access to basic family planning services.

In the first six months of 2007, Marie Stopes International protected 6 million couples from unintended pregnancy; a 41% increase on the number of couples reached during the same period the previous year. Across the world, Marie Stopes International provides a full range of modern contraceptive methods so that clients have the widest possible choice.

To find out more about these and other family planning methods, download the pdf. 

To find out more about the programmes where Marie Stopes International provides family planning information and services, please select a country from the drop down list on the right.