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Marie Stopes International China Programme
Mission: "By Choice, Not By Chance"
In China since: 2000
Annual China budget: $400,000
Number of staff: 10 national and 0 expatriate
Mainland China contact:
Lily Liu 刘丽青
Chief Representative 首席代表
103, Block 18 Euro-Classic Compound
172 Beiyuan Lu, Chaoyang District Beijing 100101
Tel: +86 10 8485 4998
Activities in Other Countries:
38 countries worldwide
Goal: To deliver relevant, informative and sustainable sexual health care and education to improve the health and well-being of Chinese people, with a particular focus on the underserved and vulnerable groups, especially youth, migrant populations and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Marie Stopes (1880-1958) was a British woman who trained as a botanist but is now better remembered for her pioneering work in family planning. In 1918 she published a best-selling book, Married Life, which argued – controversially, at the time – that marriage should be a relationship of equality between men and women. A second book, Wise Parenthood, offered practical advice on contraception. In 1921, she opened a clinic in London offering free family planning services, and in 1930 she launched a National Birth Control Council. The modern organisation named after Marie Stopes was established in 1976, and has developed into a global partnership that works in 38 countries worldwide.
From 1998, East Asia and Pacific Regional Office of Marie Stopes International in Australia member of the global partnership worked in China as the Excutive Agency on a UNFPA China Coountry Programto develop quality reproductive health and family planning services in 32 counties. The project set out to embed the principles of informed choice, quality service and male participation in delivery of family planning services.
In 2000, MSI established a Chinese branch that has an independent, non-profit identity. This works to reduce unwanted pregnancies and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, among young people, including those who have not yet married. It has created a ‘You&Me’ brand to drive youth education campaigns and youth-oriented family planning services. Major projects have included development and distribution of appropriate sex education materials to middle school students in Sichuan, cooperation with print and broadcast media to improve the quality and relevance of their coverage of sexual health, and a series of concerts, street performances and other types of ‘edu-tainment’ designed to convey key, reproductive health messages to young people and the media. MSI China also works with public transport authorities to develop public information messages on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS for broadcasts on railways and in long-distance bus stations.
In 2003, MSI China opened a clinic in Qingdao to offer young people and migrant workers information and advice, reproductive health services and treatment of reproductive track infections.
The organisation also offers technical and capacity building support to self-help groups of HIV+ people and their families.
As of January, 2007, reproductive health centers have opened in Nanning and Nanjing. Efforts have also been made to educate migrant workers about the spread of STDs; this is done by distributing information at construction sites.
Marie Stopes International’s China programme has been funded by fees for services and grants from UN agencies, the government of Luxemburg, the Ford Foundation and the Kadoorie Charitable Foundation, Sida, Oxfam Hong Kong.
Updated January 07- CKC
Links
http://www.youandme.net.cn
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