Useful links
Other Marie Stopes International sites
Young people
likeitis - www.likeitis.org
Aimed at 11-15 year olds, the site discusses relationships, sex, puberty and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) ('love bugs') amongst other topics in a frank and open way. There is a UK version, an Australian version and soon to be launched, Spanish versions for Bolivia and Mexico.
Marie Stopes International Partner sites
Australia
www.mariestopes.org.au
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s charity work in Australia and the Marie Stopes International programmes in the Pacific Asia region.
www.mariestopes.com.au
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s clinics in Australia.
Austria
Prowoman - www.prowoman.at
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in Austria.
Youth website - www.proU.at
Bangladesh
Marie Stopes Clinic Society - www.mariestopes-bd.org
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in Bangladesh.
China
Marie Stopes International China – youandme.net.cn
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in China.
Malawi
Banja La Mtsogolo - www.banja.org.mw
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in Malawi.
Pakistan
Marie Stopes Society - www.mariestopespk.org
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in Pakistan.
South Africa
Marie Stopes South Africa - www.mariestopes.org.za
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in South Africa.
Viet Nam
Marie Stopes International Viet Nam – www.mariestopes.org.vn
Comprehensive information about Marie Stopes International’s work in Viet Nam
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Donor sites
Just some of Marie Stopes International’s donor sites.
Canadian International Development Agency
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca
Supporting sustainable development, reducing poverty and providing humanitarian assistance in order to promote a more secure, equitable and prosperous world.
Department for International Development
www.dfid.gov.uk
Department for International Development (DFID) is a UK Government department, working to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty.
Federal Republic of Germany through KfW Entwicklungsbank (the German development bank)
www.kfw.de/en
Netherlands Government Ministry of Foreign Affairs
www.minbuza.nl
Development cooperation is one of the main tasks of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Netherlands spends four billion euros a year on tackling global poverty.
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
www.sida.se
Sida is a government agency of the country of Sweden. It channels its resources through NGOs, multilateral cooperation, and the EU, among others.
International Planned Parenthood Federation
www.ippf.org
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) links national autonomous Family Planning Associations in over 180 countries worldwide.
United Nations Population Fund
www.unfpa.org
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programmes. It works with governments and non-government organisations in over 140 countries, at their request, and with the support of the international community.
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Other organisations
ActionAid
www.actionaid.org.uk
ActionAid works in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over six million of the world's poorest people.
Action for Global health
www.actionforglobalhealth.eu
Action for Global Health is a network of 15 non-government organisations and charities working in the field of health. The network’s aim is to increase support from Europe to enable developing countries to make substantial progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
Alan Guttmacher Institute
www.agi-usa.org
The Alan Guttmacher Institute focuses on reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
AlertNet
www.alternet.org
AlertNet provides global news, communications and logistics services to the international disaster relief community and the public. AlertNet is funded and run by Reuters Foundation -- an educational and humanitarian trust created by Reuters, the global news and information group.
All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health
www.appg-popdevrh.org.uk
The UK APPG aims to encourage initiatives to increase access to, and improve, reproductive and sexual health programmes worldwide.
American Refugee Committee
www.archq.org
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) provides life-saving medical care and training to refugees and other displaced people around the world. Its expertise includes: primary health care, health training, HIV/AIDS awareness & prevention and community health education.
British Overseas NGOs (non-governmental organisations) for Development
www.bond.org.uk
British Overseas NGOs (non-governmental organisations) for Development (BOND) is a network of more than 260 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education.
Care International
www.careinternational.org.uk
CARE International has eleven member countries plus a Secretariat in Brussels. Together, member countries work in 64 countries worldwide.
CDC Capital Partners
www.cdcgroup.com
CDC (formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation) identifies and supports commercially sustainable business ventures in emerging markets.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.cdc.gov
The CDC is a USA federal agency providing extensive information about public health issues including STIs/HIV/AIDS. It also promotes good health through a range of partnerships.
Centre for Development and Population Activities
www.cedpa.org
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is a women-focused non profit international organisation. Its mission is to empower women at all levels of society to be full partners in development.
Columbia University
www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/index.html
The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University addresses the reproductive, adolescent, and child health conditions that confront communities throughout the world, both settled communities and communities
that have been displaced as a result of political or environmental emergencies.
dgCommunities
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/population
dgCommunities is a collaborative space for professionals working to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development worldwide.
DSW - the German Foundation for World Population
www.weltbevoelkerung.de/en
DSW is a development co-operation organisation working at international level, focussing on demographic development and reproductive health.
Engender Health
www.engenderhealth.org
Engender Health works in over 30 countries, specialising in some key health issues for women and their families. It undertakes family planning training, innovative safe-motherhood programmes, partnerships to transform care, services for men, quality-improvement programmes amongst others.
European Parliament Working Group on Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Development (EPWG).
www.epwg.eu
The EPWG represents a cross-section of European Union Member States and the Parliament’s political groups. In accordance with the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the EPWG advocates the support of gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights and the response to HIV/AIDS as the basis for sustainable social and human development and poverty eradication.
European NGO for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Population and Development (EuroNGOs)
www.eurongos.org
EuroNGOs seeks to translate the commitments of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD, Cairo 1994) into international cooperative programmes in the field of sexual and reproductive health in developing countries.
European Parliament
www.europarl.europa.eu
The website of the European Parliament.
The European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development
www.iepfpd.org
The European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) is a Brussels-based Parliamentary network that serves as a platform for cooperation and coordination for the 25 all-party groups in Parliaments throughout Europe that focus on improving sexual and reproductive health and rights at home and abroad through national and regional health and foreign aid budgets.
Equilibres et Populations
www.equipop.org
Equilibres et Populations mission is to provide a forum for discussion about the link between the environment, population and economics.
Family Care International
www.familycareintl.org
Family Care International is dedicated to improving women's sexual and reproductive health and rights in developing countries, with a special emphasis on making pregnancy and childbirth safer.
Family Health International
www.fhi.org
Family Health International works across the world to improve the reproductive and family health.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
www.theglobalfund.org
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases, and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need
Global Health Action
www.globalhealthaction.org
Global Health Action is a network of 15 non-government organisations and charities working in the field of health. Current partners are based in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the UK and Brussels. ActionAid International provides the overall co-ordination from its Brussels office. The overarching Goal of Action for Global Health is increased support from Europe to enable developing countries to make substantial progress towards the Health Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
www.aidsalliance.org
Supporting community action on AIDS in developing countries.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
www.iisd.org
The Institute for Sustainable Development champions innovative, enabling societies. By using Internet communications, they cover and report on international negotiations and broker knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global partners, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries and a better dialogue between North and South.
International Rescue Committee
www.theIRC.org
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides relief, protection and resettlement assistance to refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict.
Ipas
www.ipas.org
Ipas works globally to improve women's lives through a focus on reproductive health. It concentrates on preventing unsafe abortion, improving treatment of its complications, and reducing its consequences and strives to empower women by increasing access to services that enhance their reproductive and sexual health.
Interact Worldwide
www.interactworldwide.org
Interact Worldwide’s mission is to build support for and implement programmes which enable marginalised people to fulfil their rights to sexual and reproductive health.
John Hopkins University Population Center
www.jhuccp.org
The JHU Population Center provides health and family planning professionals and policy makers with authoritative, accurate, and up-to-date population information.
John Snow Inc
www.jsi.com
John Snow International provides an extensive range of research and consulting in the health care and services sectors.
Médecins Sans Frontieres
www.msf.org
Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is a leading independent organisation providing emergency medical aid and relief to the victims of war, natural disasters and epidemics. It operates in over 80 countries.
Merlin
www.merlin.org.uk
Merlin provides medical relief to people suffering as a result of conflict, natural disaster or epidemic disease anywhere in the world.
Oxfam
www.oxfam.org
Oxfam works with poor people worldwide in their struggle against hunger, disease, exploitation and poverty.
Partners in Population and Development
www.south-south-ppd.org
The mission of Partners in Population and Development is to help implement the Cairo Programme of Action by quickly expanding and improving South-South collaboration in the fields of family planning and reproductive health.
Pathfinder International
www.pathfind.org
Pathfinder International provides women, men, and adolescents throughout the developing world with access to quality family planning information and services.
Plan International
www.plan-uk.org
A child-centred community development organisation which works in 43 of the world's poorest countries.
Population Action International
www.populationaction.org
Population Action International (PAI) is an independent, policy advocacy group working to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programmes grounded in individual rights.
Population Institute
www.populationinstitute.org
The Population Institute is an educational organisation that seeks to reduce excessive population growth.
Population Reference Bureau
www.prb.org
The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) provides up-to-date and objective information on USA and international population trends and their implications.
Population Services International
www.psi.org
Population Services International (PSI) is a not-for-profit social marketing organisation with projects in more than 60 countries.
Program for Appropriate Technology (PATH)
www.path.org
PATH is an international organisation whose mission is to improve health, especially the health of women and children.
RAISE
www.raiseinitiative.org
A multi-agency, mult-country programme, RAISE brings together 10 leading service delivery and advocacy partners to catalyse change in sexual and reproductive health service provision in emergency settings. The partners are: the American Refugee Committee, CARE, the International Rescue Committee, JSI Research & Training Institute, Marie Stopes International, Profamilia, Colombia University, Save the Children, the UNFPA and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
Reproductive Health Gateway
www.rhgateway.org
The Gateway provides a one-stop search facility of over two dozen reproductive health sites.
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
www.rhsupplies.org/coalition
The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition provides a forum in which to further develop
collaborative strategies and exchange technical information.
Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium
www.rhrc.org
The Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium (RHRC) consists of seven members: four- the American Refugee Committee, CARE, International Rescue Committee, and Marie Stopes International - focus specifically on the provision of reproductive health services to refugees. John Snow Inc Research & Training and Columbia University are primarily involved in project research, staff training and technical assistance. The Women's Commission, an expert resource and advocacy organisation, plays a co-ordinating role for the Consortium.
Safe Motherhood
www.safemotherhood.org
Safe Motherhood is a global effort to increase maternal safety and reduce the number of deaths and illnesses associated with pregnancy and childbirth.
Safe Passages to Adulthood
www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk
Enabling young people to improve their sexual and reproductive health.
Sexwise
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/sexwise/index.shtml
The web resource of a global sex education project providing information about sexual well-being and the latest sexual health news. The resource is a joint initiative between the BBC World Service and IPPF.
Stop Aids Alliance
www.stopaidsalliance.org
Stop Aids Alliance is a partnership between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Stop AIDS Now! Our mission is to strengthen EU policy and programming on HIV/AIDS related issues in developing countries. We work closely with the European Commission, European Parliament and Council in order to ensure that HIV/AIDS is considered as a priority in developing cooperation.
United Nations Development Programme
www.undp.org
On the ground in 166 countries, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) uses its global network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness and track progress, while it connects countries to the knowledge and resources needed to achieve the goals of reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women.
United Nations Development Fund for Women
www.unifem.undp.org
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that promote women's human rights, political participation and economic security.
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
www.unaids.org
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is a joint, co-sponsored programme comprising UNICEF, UNDCP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. UNAIDS is the leading advocate for worldwide action against HIV/AIDS; its global mission is to lead, strengthen and support an expanded response to the epidemic.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
www.unhcr.ch
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) leads and co-ordinates international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees.
World Health Organisation
www.who.org
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health.
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
www.womenscommission.org
The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children (WCRWC) works to ensure that refugee and displaced women, children and adolescents are given protection, encouraged to participate, and have access to education, health services and livelihood opportunities.
Women on web
www.womenonweb.org
The goal of the Women on Web service is to help women around the world to obtain a safe medical abortion and reduce the mortality and morbidity rates related to unsafe abortions.
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