MSI Reproductive Choices
MSI Reproductive Choices, named Marie Stopes International until November 2020,[1] is an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world. MSI Reproductive Choices as an organisation lobbies in favour of access to abortion, and provides a variety of sexual and reproductive healthcare services including advice, vasectomies, and abortions in the UK and other countries where it is legal to do so. It is based in London and is a registered charity under English law.[2]
Formation
1976
Tim Black, Jean Black and Phil Harvey
To allow women around the world to choose when they have children.
Contraception and legal abortion
Simon Cooke
13,000
In 2015 there were an estimated 21 million women around the world using a method of contraception provided by Marie Stopes International. The organisation claims that in 2015 the services that it provided averted 6.3 million unintended pregnancies, 4 million unsafe abortions and 18,100 maternal deaths.[3]
The organisation's core services include family planning; safe abortion and post-abortion care; maternal and child health care, including safe delivery and obstetrics; diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and HIV/AIDS prevention.[4]
Activities[edit]
Contraception[edit]
MSI estimated that the services they provided in 2019 prevented approximately 13 million unintended pregnancies, 34,600 maternal deaths and 6.5 million unsafe abortions. In 2019 there were 32 million women using a method of contraception provided by MSI.[11]
Social marketing[edit]
MSI runs contraceptive social marketing programmes in 17 countries, such as the Kushi contraceptive pill and injectable in India, Raha condom and Smart Lady emergency contraceptive pill in Kenya, Jodi Condom in Nepal, Lifeguard condom in Uganda and Snake condom in Australia aimed at the Aboriginal population market.[12]
Consultancy[edit]
MSI works with a variety of organizations through its subsidiary, Options Consultancy Services. Their partners include Action for Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, British Expertise, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), Global Financing Facility, KFW Bankengruppe, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, UK Department for International Development, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO).[13]