Marie Stopes International

Marie Stopes International is an international non-profit organization focusing on reproductive health and providing contraceptives and safe abortion services around the world. Marie Stopes works to provide family planning services to the 214 million women and girls, mostly in poor and vulnerable communities, who have no reliable way of preventing unintended pregnancy. The organization works in 37 countries across the world, offering a full range of contraceptive services, safe abortion, and post-abortion care, as well as maternal health planning and care—including prenatal and obstetric care and access to trained birth attendants. Marie Stopes conducts outreach, operates more than 600 centers internationally, partners with private health providers to deliver high-quality services, mobilizes midwives, and works on policy and advocacy work for government health system strengthening. They hope to support women in taking control of their own lives, fertility, futures, and choices, which further drives economic and social development in nations around the world. 

Marie Stopes International publishes research reports, guidance, and fact sheets about their work. Their topics cover safe abortion and abortion care, climate, outreach, contraception, maternal health, STIs and HIV, refugees and internally displaced persons, humanitarian situations, male family planning, policy and advocacy. They offer research documents, facts sheets, reports, and graphs and infographics. All of their resources are available through one resource portal and can be filtered by topic, resource type, keyword, and year. The organization also maintains The Spotlight Blog on their sexual and reproductive health work, stories, and case studies. Users can also learn about Marie Stopes’ philanthropy work and find additional resources through the media center.