Marie Stopes International (MSI)

http://www.mariestopes.org.uk

Marie Stopes International
153 Cleveland Street
LondonW1T 6QW
Tel: 020 7574 7400
Fax: 020 7574 7417
Email: services@stopes.org.uk

Marie Stopes International (MSI) works in 39 countries, throughout South Asia, Middle East and Arab World, Africa,UK, Eastern Europe and Latin and South America. The mission of MSI is to ensure the fundamental human right of all people to have children by choice not chance. This website contains information about MSI's services and centres, campaigns and advocacy, MSI world-wide contact information.

The Press Centre is a resource for journalists and broadcasters. The press team can facilitate journalists' enquiries on reproductive and population issues in a variety of ways (e.g. arrange field trips, arrange interviews with experts from overseas or in the UK). The team can also assist with the development of future ideas on issues of maternal mortality, illegal abortion, social marketing, adolescents and refugees. Press releases from 1998 to date are available.

The Medical Centre is a resource dedicated to the information needs of medical professionals. It provides them with practical information about MSI's key services, how to refer patients and how to obtain further information and literature.

There is a wide range of publications for different audiences, for example:

  • Position paper on Young People
  • Position paper on HIV/AIDS
  • New Report Calls for Reappraisal of Northern Irish Attitudes to Abortion

There are also interesting reports on MSI's research in focus, such as:

  • Privacy and precise appointments. Challenges for the Yemen Reproductive Health Programme
  • User perceptions of the monthly (Chinese) pill in Cambodia
  • Do women support vasectomy? Attributes to vasectomy among women attending Marie Stopes Clinic society in Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Sexual and reproductive health priorities in the city of Sucre, Bolivia
  • Social franchising reproductive health services. Can it work? A review of the experience