MSI joined Gynuity Health, Population Council and leading health officials at a one-day high-level meeting in Mexico City during late November to discuss how to make medical abortion available to women in Mexico City.
MSI is pioneering the delivery of medical abortion in more than 20 countries to reduce the number of women who resort to unsafe methods because safe services are beyond their reach. Medical abortion provides an important option for women who attend clinics, but also women in rural sites who are beyond the catchment and referral areas of any clinic network.
"Medical abortion is perhaps the most exciting reproductive health technology since the pill or IUD was developed,” said Michael Holscher, MSI’s director of strategy and external relations. “It can truly transform by a power of 10 our response to unsafe abortion. This is why MSI is devoting significant time and resources to ensuring medical abortion reaches the women who most need it.”
MSI representatives briefed Mexico officials and others on the clinical standards that providers must meet in the nearly two dozen countries where MSI currently provides medical abortion.
MSI's work in Mexico