recent achievements

These services include a variety of sexual and reproductive areas such as: family planning, safe abortion & post-abortion care, maternal & child healthcare including antenatal care and safe delivery, diagnosis & treatment of sexually transmitted infections and HIV prevention.

Currently, we are dramatically expanding health service delivery for low-income women and couples. This expansion involves adding clinics and rural outreach programs in new countries and new regions of existing countries; creating social franchising networks to further expand access; and the wide distribution of high-quality, affordably-priced contraceptives with an emphasis on long-term methods.

In 2008 Marie Stopes International Australia:

• saved the lives of 1369 mothers, 15,653 infants, 19,686 children under five
• provided 2 million couples with a years worth of protection of unintended pregnancy
• distributed over 6 million condoms which protected over 61,500 couples from the transmission of HIV and STIs
• through family planning education and contraceptives averted 489,702 abortions
• through being a trusted provider of abortion averted 335,785 unsafe abortions which often result in death or life-disabling injury or illness

For more information about our achievements, download a copy of our Annual Reports from the library section.