In 2010, over 7 million couples used long-acting or permanent methods (LAPM) of contraception as a result of our services. While expanding access to LAPMs is important, we continue to offer short term methods in parallel, helping clients make informed choices about the most suitable contraception for them.

To ensure people in all areas have convenient geographical access to quality family planning, we use a variety of delivery channels. Of all the couple years of protection (CYPs) we generated in 2010, 60% were delivered through mobile clinical outreach programmes, 18% through our centres, 17% through social marketing.

Below you can see the CYPs that we provided in 2010 by delivery channel.


Over the past eight years, the number of CYPs provided by us each year has increased dramatically - in 2010 we provided 21 million CYPs.

In 2010 our family planning services have expanded in all the regions we work in – and our contribution towards meeting the national need for modern family planning in all countries has grown steadily over the past five years.

We provide a full range of modern contraceptive methods so that clients have the widest possible choice.

We believe in offering voluntary family planning advice and choices for women and men and helping them access the information they need to help them make an informed choice. As well as expanding people’s choices in contraceptive methods, we are increasing choice in the types of providers from which women and men can access voluntary family planning services.

View our 2010 global family planning service numbers

View our 2011 global family planning service numbers

Reaching the underserved

Central to our work to expand choice in voluntary family planning is meeting unmet need.

Read Zainabu's story and watch the accompanying video to find out how we're giving women access to voluntary family planning by providing counselling and the choice of a range of family planning methods.

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

New CYP conversion factors

We are adopting the new USAID CYP conversion factors, for all family planning services delivered from 1st January, 2012. You can view the new converstion factors in the table below.


Read more in our Global Impact Report 2010

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