About Marie Stopes South Africa
Established in 1993, Marie Stopes South Africa is the country’s largest non-profit provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare services. We are part of the 38-country strong Marie Stopes International Global Partnership, allowing us access to the latest innovations and expertise in the field of sexual and reproductive health.
We seek to impact the quality of life in South Africa by decreasing maternal and infant mortality, averting unsafe, illegal abortions, decreasing the number of unwanted pregnancies through contraceptive uptake, reducing the impact of HIV, STIs and cervical cancer and expanding our services whenever and wherever possible.
In South Africa, we operate 7 centres across 4 provinces and are a Section 21 non-profit organisation recognised for the quality of our clinical services and our non-judgemental, client-friendly approach. The fees we charge for our services are cross-subsidised across our network, meaning centres can offer prices that best suit the communities they serve. Any surplus we generate is reinvested back into our core work, allowing us to grow our reach and range of services.
Our team is passionately pro-choice. At Marie Stopes South Africa, pro-choice refers not only to reproductive freedom and the right to a safe abortion but also the choice of when and with whom to have sex, regardless of sexual orientation.
What We Do
At Marie Stopes, we offer a full-service package of sexual and reproductive health services and are regularly growing our service offering to remain up-to-date and able to meet our clients’ evolving needs. Our sexual health services include
Safe Abortion & Post-Abortion Care
Providing access to safe abortion and post-abortion care is at the core of our mission.
Contraceptives
We believe that everyone should have the right to choose whether and when to have children, no matter where they live.
Women’s Wellness
As a modern woman we know you’re busy with a thousand different things, but it’s important to make your health a priority.
HIV & STI Testing
We offer a range of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment services across South Africa.
Pap Smear
A pap smear can detect sexually transmitted infections (STIs) as well as early signs of cervical cancer.
Telemedicine
Our main focus is to provide all our clients with a comfortable and reassuring experience.
We have established a successful public-private partnership model with government at both district and hospital level across the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), with aims to expand these types of agreements across the country. A recent report on this model commissioned by the European Union identified it as a successful tool to reduce the burden on public facilities and ensure patients have access to expert, quality care. Our work is closely aligned with government at various levels, through contracting, training and alignment to the Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy, the National Strategy on HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs and increasingly the Integrated School Health Policy.
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