Marie Stopes International forecasts continued growth following record results in 2007

Leading global sexual and reproductive health agency Marie Stopes International (MSI) projects robust growth over 2007's record results with a programme of expansion that will see as many as six new country programmes established in Africa during 2008.

MSI programmes worldwide delivered services to more than 5,000,000, women and men in 2007. These services protected the equivalent of 12.5 million couples from unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion last year, a 27% increase on the preceding year’s figures and the single largest year-on-year growth in the organisation’s 32 year history.

MSI’s delivery of long term and permanent methods of contraception, such as injections, intrauterine devices and male and female sterilisations, approached the one million mark, with 995,000 such voluntary procedures carried out in 2007. The agency also opened four new programmes in Ghana, Mexico City, Papua New Guinea and Timor L’este, and increased its global clinic network from 431 to 464.

“The figures demonstrate that MSI is learning, evolving and expanding to better meet the unmet need in family planning and reproductive healthcare around the world,” said MSI CEO Dana Hovig.

“Our family planning programmes, for example, are making an important contribution to reducing poverty in some of the countries in which we work.”

Hovig is confident that MSI will continue to push towards its ambitious goal of protecting 20 million couples from unwanted pregnancy by 2010. Current plans should see the global MSI Partnership expand from 40 to as many as 46 countries in 2008. New programme start ups in Mali and Nigeria are imminent, and other new programmes across Francophone Africa are likely to follow.

“Last year’s results have inspired MSI’s 5,000 team members around the world to strive to make an even greater impact in 2008,” said Hovig. “but without any diminution in the superb standards of quality services and dedication to clients’ needs for which MSI is renowned.”

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17/03/2008

Marie Stopes International forecasts continued growth following record results in 2007

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