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Ethiopia

Date established	1990
Services offered	Family planning; abortion; HIV/STIs; male circumcision; maternal health; post abortion care; primary health care; social franchising; young people
Number of centres	20
Outreach / mobile services	Yes
Major partners	Ipas; Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations (CORHA); Christian Relief & Development Association (CRDA); Oromyia & Amhara Development Associations; Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia; DKT International
Major donors	UK Department for International Development (DFID); European Community; the David & Lucile Packard Foundation; private US institutions
Contact details	Marie Stopes International Ethiopia P.O. BOX 5775 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Telephone: +251 115509 251 Email: msie@ethionet.et

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Highlights

opened four additional clinics, bringing the total to 24
increased the number of franchisees in the BlueStar social franchising network to 207
established nine mobile outreach teams
launched a behaviour change communication (BCC) campaign to promote the use of long-term and permanent methods of contraception

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863

The number of maternal deaths averted by us in 2010

Future plans

undertake work to communicate the benefits of intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants
expand behaviour change communication (BCC) work to increase the number of people who access clinics

News

Dutch award to strengthen private sector in Ethiopia

Our programme in Ethiopia is delighted to have been awarded €13 million by the Dutch government for a project to improve the sexual and reproductive health of Ethiopian women. 27/04/2012

New programme involves Ethiopian men in reproductive health

Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSI Ethiopia) has launched a new programme, Men as Partners, to encourage male involvement in family planning and reproductive health in the country. 30/08/2011

Make reproductive health a priority in the Horn of Africa

Marie Stopes International is deeply concerned by the growing famine in the Horn of Africa. 03/08/2011

The people behind the numbers: Tigist's story

Tigist is typical of the 8,000 men and women that work for us, delivering life changing services in some of the most underserved communities in the world. 02/06/2011

Ethiopia on International Women's Day

Three stories from our Ethiopia programme about how they're reducing unsafe abortion and reaching local communities. 08/03/2011

Baroness Kinnock, Minister for Africa, visits Ethiopia programme

Addis Ababa - Baroness Kinnock took time out from her visit to Ethiopia this week (26 January) to visit the Marie Stopes International programme 26/01/2010

MSI Ethiopia launches Behaviour Change Communication campaign

ADDIS ABABA - Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSI Ethiopia) has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the family planning choices available to Ethiopian families. 20/01/2010

BlueStar Ethiopia introduces medical abortion

Addis Ababa - MSI Ethiopia has recently started taking medical abortion outside of its own centres through its growing BlueStar franchise network. 11/08/2009

BlueStar proving a social franchising success

MSI is setting an encouraging new trend: combining ambitious social service-provision goals with a franchise model, and targeted social networking. 17/07/2009

MSI Ethiopia reports high rate of post-abortion contraception

Addis Ababa – More than 90% of all clients who received an abortion at an MSI clinic in Ethiopia last year left with a modern family planning method 22/04/2008

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