media coverage
Marie Stopes International Australia Patron featured in the Australian Financial Review
Written by Morgan Aldridge on Thursday, 19 April 2012Click the article below to read more.
Marie Stopes International launches tool to help measure the impact of family planning
Written by Morgan Aldridge on Thursday, 19 April 2012Marie Stopes International has launched a new tool which will make is easier for family planning organisations to measure the impact of their programs in developing countries.
Click through to the Marie Stopes International UK website to learn more about the Impact 2 tool.
On Tuesday 6 March Dame Carol Kidu spoke on ABC Life Matters about the status of women in the lead-up to International Women's Day (8 March). Kidu discussed the importance of family planning, and the role of Marie Stopes International.
On the 30 January 2012 Marie Stopes International’s Policy Manager Mina Barling wrote for online opinion piece The Drum, addressing the debate around the recent research by the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organisation.
The study found that, overall, reductions in abortion rates have stalled whilst unsafe abortion rates have increased and contraceptive uptake has remained unchanged.
In October 2011 Marie Stopes International Australia’s Policy Manager Mina Barling talked about the UN State of the World Population report on ABC Life Matters.
The segment focused of global population and family planning, with Mina saying that access to family planning is vital for womens’ health and sustainable development.
Earlier this year a colleague told me a story about Assefa, a woman he met in Ethiopia. Assefa lives in small rural village where both she and her husband work as farmers. They are very poor and had for many years wanted to try to practice family planning.
Gen Y asked to record sex views to help health study
Written by news.com.au on Wednesday, 12 August 2009Sex files ... health professionals want to know what Gen Y think of sex so they can provide better health services
Doctor's orders to corrupt minds
Written by Ann-Louise Brown - Sunshine Coast Daily on Wednesday, 12 August 2009DR Peter Vardy describes his job as "corrupting young minds". Yesterday Mr Vardy, a renowned academic, ethicist and philosopher from the University of London, addressed more than 300 Year 12 students from independent schools across the Sunshine Coast at Immanuel Lutheran College.
TWO southeast Queensland sexual health clinics have started prescribing the controversial abortion pill RU486 to women seeking a termination in the first nine weeks of pregnancy.
Dispensing the abortion pill RU486 from community-based clinics will not lead to more terminations, says the not-for-profit sexual-health service behind the move. Marie Stopes International has successfully applied the Therapeutic Goods Administration to have 14 of its doctors listed as authorised prescribers of the drug mifepristone (RU486).
